Hello Youmzain 3YO impresses top rider

Nash Rawiller is confident that Hello Captain can make his mark in top company in time.

The leading Sydney rider piloted our homebred son of Hello Youmzain to an impressive victory over 1250 metres at Canterbury Park and was lavish in his praise of the lightly raced three-year-old.

“This time next year he’ll be a horse to really be reckoned with,” Rawiller said.

Hello Captain is now unbeaten in two appearances this campaign after beginning his career with a debut second at Doomben and went one better at the Sunshine Coast on Boxing Day.

Trainer Chris Waller then spelled the gelding before bringing his to Sydney and the gelding successfully resumed at Warwick Farm and came from off the pace at Canterbury Park to win going away by two lengths under 62kg.

Hello Captain was purchased out of our draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for $425,000 by Waller and Mulcaster Bloodstock and is raced by Christchurch owners Glenn and Lynn Ritchie.

He is from the Pivotal mare Steer By The Stars, a two-time juvenile winner we purchased at the 2015 Tattersalls December Mare Sale for 115,000gns through agent John Foote.

Four of her foals have been successful, including Listed Carnarvon Stakes winner Never Look Back and Hello Captain’s brother Persian Wonder, runner-up in this season’s G3 Baillieu Handicap.

Steer By The Stars is a half-sister to Consort, who won the Listed Sandown Heron Stakes and finished third in the G1 St James’s Palace Stakes, with top-flight winners Dawn Approach, Kitwood, Miss Oceana, Magic Of Life, Inara and Aruna.

Her Farnan filly sold to Chinese interests for $160,000 at Karaka this year. She died foaling this year.

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