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Prague made a winning debut in the Canterbury League Club Handicap.
Fresh from Away Game's (Snitzel) victory in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) last weekend, co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace look to have another handy two-year-old on their hands in the shape of Prague (2 c Redoute's Choice - Purely Spectacular by Pins), who made a winning debut in the Canterbury League Club Handicap (1200m) on Friday.
The colt hit the front with 100 metres left to run and finished two lengths clear of John Sargent's Easy Campese (Sidestep), with the Chris Waller-trained 3-1 favourite Spokesman (Press Statement) in third.
"It was a nice start to his career, but we expected something pretty similar to that - he's impressed us at home," winning jockey Tommy Berry said.
"His first trial was nice and strong but in his second I would have liked him to chase the winner a little bit more and that's why the winkers went on today - to sharpen him up a little bit."
A winner of a Canterbury trial on December 23, Prague was beaten almost three lengths in his next trial at Randwick on January 9, ridden by Berry on both occasions.
"He jumped and travelled really well for me today. He pushed out on the corner and put it away quite quickly," Berry continued.
"He's a real athlete, really clean winded and he's doing everything on natural ability at the moment.
"He's going to be one of those horses that in three months time you'll see the best of him."
Purchased for a whopping $1.6 million by Phoenix Thoroughbreds and Aquis Thoroughbreds at last year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale from the Bhima Thoroughbreds draft, Prague is out of Pins (Snippets) mare Purely Spectacular making the colt a half-brother to dual Group 1 winner and now Widden Stud-based stallion Stratum Star (Stratum) and Group 3-placed Serenade (Star Witness).
Purely Spectacular herself is a sister Listed winner and Group 1-placed Raid and since foaling Prague she slipped to Redoute's Choice's (Danehill) son Snitzel, but has most recently tested positive to the three-time champion sire.
Arrowfield's late breed-shaping stallion Redoute's Choice has one filly catalogued at the upcoming Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, which gets underway in Melbourne on March 1.
At last week's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Redoute's Choice had seven yearlings sell for an aggregate of $3,160,000 at an average of $451,429.
