Rocking good win at Sandown

Consistent four-year-old Rock Them Jools raced up to his looks on the Hillside course at Sandown to post the first winning strike of his brief career.

The Chris Waller representative had been around the action in all of his previous five outings and broke through in style over 1300 metres.

“He’s been going really, really well and was deserving of a win,” stable representative Lizzie Collett said.

“He’s all dappled up now and looks a million dollars.”

Rock Them Jools loped along three back on the outer and finished off resolutely in the run home for rider Ben Melham.

“He’s been consistent and I thought he had the race at his mercy a long way out,” he said.

“He’s a nice horse and hopefully he gains confidence and goes on with it.”

With the Fastnet Rock Syndicate, we bred the son of Fastnet Rock and the More Than Ready mare More Jools, whose only other foal to race is the winner Flaming Dash, a son of Tavistock.

More Jools is a half-sister to the Group 2 winners Ninth Legion and Tsarita and the family of the G1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas winner Tell A Tale.

Rock Them Jools is raced by a syndicate that includes Albert Bosma, whose Go Racing company purchased him out of our 2023 draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for $325,000.

His half-brother by Hello Youmzain sold to Curran Bloodstock at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in 2024 for A$160,000, a price matched by his half-sister by Sword Of State at the Gold Coast earlier this year.

More Jools produced another colt by Hello Youmzain last season and is again due to foal to our young shuttle stallion.

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