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Waterhouse and Bott-trained gelding by Sebring makes a winning debut

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Ahso (3 g Sebring - Quench The Thirst by Encosta De Lago) got his career off to the best possible start when scoring over 1200 metres at Warwick Farm. 

Bred by Sir Owen Glen’s Go Bloodstock Australia, the three-year-old gelding led all the way and in the closing stages surged clear to beat Cash Register (Pendragon) by a length and a half, while Investor (Written Tycoon) by a length and a quarter. 

Ahso is out of the Listed-placed Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) mare Quench The Thirst, making him a half-brother to last season’s Incognitus Stakes (Listed, 1100m) winner Sangria (I Am Invincible).

Quench The Thirst is herself a sister to Listed scorer Lucky Raquie Group 3 scorer Precious Lorraine, who in turn produced stakes winner Meuse (Snitzel). 

The gelding’s third dam is Shantha’s Choice (Canny Lad) and she is famed for being the dam of Group 1 winner and late breed-shaping stallion Redoute’s Choice (Danehill), fellow elite level winner Manhattan Rain (Encosta De Lago), fellow Group 1 winner Platinum Scissors (Danehill) and the dam’s of three-time Group 1 winner Shoals (Fastnet Rock) and Group 2 scorer Rubick (Encosta De Lago), who now stands at Coolmore Stud. 

Quench The Thirst was purchased by Newgate Farm for $1.5 million at the 2014 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and her 2018 filly by Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) - now named Savourer - was purchased by the Freedman Brother’s for $330,000 at the last year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and he is unraced. In 2019 the mare produced a filly by Merchant Navy (Fastnet Rock), while last year she foaled a colt by Newgate Farm-based Russian Revolution (Snitzel), ghost first crop hit the sales rings this year. 

Sebring died in 2019 and 38 of his final crop of yearlings will be offered at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale next week including a half-sister to the Annabel Neasham trained Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) hopeful Queen Of Wizardry.