Winter King Comes Up Trumps

Promising sprinter and Karaka Premier Sale graduate Winter King bagged the A$100,000 STC Starlight Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday. �

In the hands of Glyn Schofield the four-year-old son of One Cool Cat kept just over a length's grace between himself and stable mate Centennial Park to take home the quinella for the Sydney trainer David Payne.

Saturday's run sees him unbeaten in his two starts this preparation, having won at Randwick over 1000 metres when relegating Karaka Million runner up Sarge in Charge (Golan) to second place on 24 July.

Bred by Bill Gleeson in conjunction with Peter Gillespie Winter King was sold through Gleeson's Wellfield Lodge in 2008 for $175,000 to Les Samba who now races the gelding with Ron Medich.

Winter King is from the three-time city winning Bletchingly mare Something Special and has now won on seven occasions to accumulate $329,605 in prizemoney.

The five-year-old Centennial Park's Saturday effort was equally as impressive, carrying a whopping 59kg. Bred by Windsor Park Stud, last season's Group 3 VRC AAMI Business Insurance Stakes (1400m) winner is by their Group 1 QTC Stradbroke winning sire Thorn Park.