Lafarna makes dream start to career

The covers came off the well-related Lafarna at Geelong where she coasted to an impressive debut victory.

The three-year-old homebred daughter of Farnan is trained for us by Nigel Blackiston, who also trained her mother Laffalong to be a four-time winner.

“She’s very much like her Mum and each time she has come in she’s got bigger and stronger and will keep improving,” the Ballarat conditioner said.

Lafarna was quickly into stride at the 1235 metre start for rider Michael Dee to make the running and dashed away at the top of the straight to score by a length and three-quarters.

“She’s always been a natural sort of filly, very straight forward and well behaved,” Blackiston said.

Due to foal to Chaldean, Lafarna is the first foal of All Too Hard’s daughter Laffalong who is from the family of the G1 Railway Stakes winner Entriviere and the Karaka Millions winner Xiong Feng.

“Nigel did a good job with the mother and this one’s always been a lovely filly, but we couldn’t sell her due to x-ray issues,” said Cambridge Stud Chief Executive Officer, who was in Victoria to attend a wedding and was able to be trackside.

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