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29th Nov 2015

Breednet - Monday, 30 November 2015

Two brilliant juvenile winners from two runners this season have put this stallion back in the spotlight.

A week after Golden Slipper prospect Yankee Rose won so well at Rosehill, Darby Racing has unleashed a second eye-catching 2YO by All American.

This time it was the colt Rampage who won his debut in Saturday's $80,000 MVRC John Paraskevas Plate over 1000 metres. He showed plenty of grit and pace, after racing wide most of the way, to catch Giroux on the line, with Legerity (by Snitzel) a further length away in third.

Yankee Rose and Rampage are All American's only juvenile starters so far this season and they have shot him to second position on the Australian 2YO Sires' list with $221,200 prizemoney, less than $25,000 behind his barnmate Not A Single Doubt.

Co-trainer David Hayes, who also prepared All American to win on debut at Moonee Valley in 2007, immediately confirmed that Rampage would go to Sydney for the $500,000 Inglis Nursery (R) LR at Randwick on 12 December.

He said, "I think he's a smart horse. He'll be hard to beat (in Sydney) because he was three-wide the trip and he's got a lot of improvement left in him. With a $500,000 race and an in-form horse, we've got to go for it.

"I thought he'd run well but there were some big wraps on horses in this race. He hasn't been overly schooled to get here so I'm thrilled."