Star Thoroughbreds featured with a promising winner at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with the Chris Waller trained Hinchinbrook three year-old Trafalgar charging home for a thrilling victory to stamp himself as a Queensland Derby prospect. Trafalgar was resuming from a spell and won the Benchmark 78 event over 1300 metres by a neck beating older rivals with Hugh Bowman in the saddle. “He took a while to show us something,” Waller said. “His race stats to date, if you go through his form they’ve been very good. “You could just about make a case for him winning every start.” The son of Hinchinbrook has now had five starts for three wins and two placings. “He’s certainly a Queensland Derby type of horse and that’s where he’ll be heading,” Waller said. Waller indicated a Benchmark 75 (1500m) event at Hawkesbury’s standalone Saturday meeting would be Trafalgar’s next assignment with a trip to Brisbane for the Rough Habit and Grand Prix lead-ups into the Group I Queensland Derby. A $160,000 Magic Millions purchase for Star Thoroughbreds from the Yarraman Park draft, Trafalgar is a half-brother to Group I MRC Underwood Stakes winner Rubiscent and is one of five winners from Skyescent. Trafalgar is another stakes prospect for Yarraman Park’s Hinchinbrook, whose fee has been raised to $38,500 for 2016.
