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Australian trainer Jeremy Gask added to his tremendous start to the year when he produced the Zebedee two-year-old Rosealee to win her first start in one of the first juvenile d races of the new European flat racing season at Kempton Park.

Gask, who trained 250 winners when he was based in South Australia, now trains from Wiltshire in the UK where he has over 50 horses in training.

He has Royal Ascot aspirations for Rosealee, the first two-year-old winner to emerge from her sire Zebedee’s second crop of runners.

Zebedee will shuttle from Ireland to Cornerstone Stud in South Australia this coming breeding season and is certain to be a popular addition to local sire ranks after the precocious son of Invincible Spirit amassed a whopping 32 winners with his first-crop of northern hemisphere two-year-olds last year.

He is currently leading the UK second season sires list with eight three-year-old winners already on the board in 2015.

Yearlings by Zebedee made up to €330,000 at the 2014 European sales and averaged over eight times his service fee.

Among the buyers of his stock was trainer Richard Hannon who has reported that Zebedee’s dual G2 winning son Ivawood to be on course for the English 2000 Guineas next month, rating him his best 3YIO prospect since Canford Cliffs.

Cornerstone Stud has set Zebedee’s fee at $17,600 inc. GST.