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Exciting Times Ahead

23rd Nov 2011

Racing And Sports - Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Promising Excites gelding Greenedge will be aimed at better races after his first class debut win at Ballarat on Sunday for Hawkes Racing.

The three-year-old is a first crop son of Vinery's former G1 winning 2YO and was sold to Team Hawkes for $60,000 at the 2010 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling sale from the Dengari Lodge draft.

"He was a pretty good sort," Wayne Hawkes said.

"He was my pick at the Classic Sale and I would have paid for him if I had to.

"He's probably not as good looking as Excites - I remember him very clearly as a yearling and he was a pretty special looking horse.

"Greenedge is in the same mould - he's a big, strong horse with a good rein.

'He was a pretty nice horse and that's why we paid what we paid for him.'

Greenedge's dam South Terrace is a sister to the stakeswinner mare Red Labelle, who is proving to be a tremendous producer having foaled two stakeswinners so far in Strawberry Field and Pellizotti.

Greenedge is raced by Gerry Ryan, a part owner of Melbourne Cup winner Americain.

"Greenedge was outstanding at the Classic Sale and was highly sought after," Vinery's Conor Phelan recalled.

"it's no small feat for a horse to win on debut and the way that Greenedge did would suggest that he is city class. He is in the right stable to reach to his full potential."

Excites has 12 yearlings heading to the 2012 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale at Newmarket on January 22 to 24