He’s bred along cross-continental staying lines, and the best is well and truly ahead for a promising four-year-old resuming at Thursday’s Gosford meeting.
Unusual Prospect, a very lightly raced gelding in the John O’Shea and Tom Charton stable at Randwick, is set to open his account in a moderate Super Maiden Handicap over 1600 metres.
Gosford hosts an eight-race meeting on Thursday.
He hasn’t raced since charging home from the back to be beaten under a length at Kembla over the same trip in late January on his Australian debut.
Prior to that, he had opened his career with a narrow second placing in New Zealand early last spring.
But Unusual Prospect was quickly on the plane across the Tasman to find his new home at Randwick, and after that eye-catching first-up run, connections are confident he can plot his way through the middle distance and staying ranks, especially on winter’s often rain-affected tracks.
Unusual Prospect is a son of high class American sire Unusual Suspect who was a nine-time winner in the US before heading Down Under to finish his career.
And he’s out of a Kiwi mare by Irish superstar Cape Cross who was unbeaten from only three starts, twice winning the Queen Anne (1600m) at Royal Ascot.
Unusual Prospect will likely jump a short-priced favourite behind two progressive trials on what will be an improved surface, with predominantly fine weather forecast.
If all goes to plan he could quickly be aimed at some of the better Saturday city middle distance and staying races through winter.
