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Cooking a good one - Ready2Race sale may throw up another Odyssey Moon

11th Sep 2015

Sportsman - by Shayne O'Cass - Friday, 11 September 2015

Adam Cook, the man responsible for selling Inglis Nursery winner and Group 1 Sires’ runner-up Odyssey Moon at last year’s Ready2Race Sale, has ‘one better’ going to next month’s auction.

Cook bought Odyssey Moon at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale for $25,000 and nine months later sold it to James Harron and Rodney Northam for $120,000.

Given the triumph of his first foray, it as no surprise that Cook followed up 12 months later.

Cook paid $30,000 for a colt by Echoes Of Heaven, a New Zealand-based Encosta De Lago half-brother to multiple champion sire Redoute’s Choice at the 2015 Inglis Classic.

Last week, the colt was one of 67 Ready2Race two-year- olds that breezed up at Canterbury ahead of the October 6 sale at Newmarket running 11.67s for his 200m gallop.

“He ran a slower time than Odyssey Moon last year but if you have a look at the replay it was only a bit of trackwork for him,” Cook said.

“He would have run the fastest time if he had been whipped and carried on like everything else that ran quick time.

“A quote from Rod (last year) was that Odyssey Moon may not have run the fastest time but he’s the best horse at the sale and I could probably use that quote again with the Echoes of Heaven.”

Cook’s Echoes Of Heaven colt (Lot 85) is the only one by the stallion in the sale, indeed there is every chance that it is the Cambridge housed sire’s only offspring in the whole of Australia.

Echoes Of Heaven, a NZ$6000 (+GST) Linwood Stud resident, made the perfect start to his career when The Duke Of Jazz took out the very first two-year- old race in Australasia; an 800m maiden at Wanganui.

“Echoes Of Heaven only had 27 live foals that first year and to come out and get the first two-year-old winner is quite an achievement,” Cook said.

Cook’s Newmarket bound colt is out of Trudelite who has thrown five foals, all of whom are winners.

“The Echoes of Heaven’s three-year-old half-brother is a horse with Lance O’Sullivan called Link Road and is nominated for the 2000 Guineas over in New Zealand and was only beaten 4-lengths in the Haunui Diamond, a Group 1 race for two-year-old’s.”

NOTE: The next round of Breeze Ups scheduled for Cranbourne on Tuesday will now be run on Monday 14 September.