Sea Poem home in style

Gifted homebred mare Sea Poem turned in a herculean effort at Bendigo to continue her march through the grades.

The Pierata four-year-old overcame the outside gate to win in outstanding style over 1100 metres and take her record to four wins and a placing from just eight appearances.

Trained by Ben, Will and JD Hayes, Sea Poem drifted to a clear last and rider Nash Rawiller stayed on the fence into the straight.

He angled the mare across heels 250 metres from home, and she cut loose to win going away by a length and a-quarter.

“We left Nash with an open book from the outside gate, and it was a 10 out of 10 ride,” stable representative Will Evans said.

“She was always going to have to go back and Nash summed it up perfectly, the key to her are the firmer tracks.”

We offered Sea Poem at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale where she was bought for A$160,000 by Lindsay Park and Jamie McCalmont and is a daughter of the imported Street Cry mare Prose Poem.

She is a sister to multiple stakes winner Fencing with their dam the G1 French Oaks winner Latice, whose half-brother Lawman won twice at the highest level ahead of a successful stud career.

Te Akau purchased Prose Poem’s colt by Sword Of State for $50,000 at Karaka earlier this year and she also has a yearling son of our resident sire and is in foal to Chaldean.

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