More New Horizons For Frankel

Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) could reach another milestone in his stallion career this week when he is represented by his first runner in Victoria. Wednesday will see New Horizons (Jpn) make his debut for the Darren Weir stable in a 1200m maiden at Sandown-Lakeside. The colt is owned by Waratah Thoroughbreds and their racing manager Luke Geddes is hoping for a prominent showing. “He's been working okay and Weiry is pretty happy with him at this stage so I think he'll be running very well on Wednesday but he's still got a fair bit to learn,” Geddes told Racing.com. New Horizons is out of Miss Keller (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), a mare who initially raced in Ireland, winning twice for John Oxx but was then transferred to Roger Attfield in Woodbine. She had her finest moment on her last racecourse start when winning the GI EP Taylor S. at Woodbine in 2011 before being sold to Waratah Thoroughbreds at Tattersalls for 625,000gns. So New Horizons certainly has an international outlook, being out of a Canadian winning Irish mare, by a British stallion, foaled in Japan and now racing in Australia. Explaining the Japanese connection Geddes added, “We put Miss Keller in foal over in England but we wanted to breed her to Deep Impact so she went over to Japan carrying New Horizons. He was born in Japan and we shipped him back here as a yearling and broke him in here.”