The burden of carrying an expensive price tag - and some of the richest bloodlines in racing - again proved to be a load too heavy for high-profile maiden Seventh Reason at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.Seventh Reason, part-owned by larrikin businessman John Singleton and trained by Gai Waterhouse, finished in the latter half of the field in the Hinchinbrook Maiden Handicap (1300m).In a career punctuated by more than four times as many barrier trial starts as trips to the races, Seventh Reason was b

The burden of carrying an expensive price tag - and some of the richest bloodlines in racing - again proved to be a load too heavy for high-profile maiden Seventh Reason at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Seventh Reason, part-owned by larrikin businessman John Singleton and trained by Gai Waterhouse, finished in the latter half of the field in the Hinchinbrook Maiden Handicap (1300m).

In a career punctuated by more than four times as many barrier trial starts as trips to the races, Seventh Reason was beaten into eighth place in the race won by Kiss Of The Dragon.

Waterhouse emerged from a post-mortem with jockey Blake Shinn and Singleton to declare: "Things just didn't go his way today. I still have faith."

The mounting yard scenes were a far cry from the Singleton and Waterhouse-led celebrations after Seventh Reason's two-year-old half-sister More Joyous won at Rosehill on Saturday.

More Joyous raced her way into Golden Slipper favouritism with an emphatic win and for the next few months at least, the racing world appears to be her oyster.

A midweek middle-distance maiden race is the best Waterhouse can offer for Seventh Reason.

"He'll go straight to a 1900-metre race now," she said.

Seventh Reason, a noted betting drifter from $2.30 to $3.40 favouritism, missed the start but recovered quickly enough to race in a winning position.

Stewards described the run as "disappointing" and Shinn couldn't disagree when quizzed about the performance.

"I can't really offer any excuses," he told them.

"Even though he missed the start he wasn't good enough."

By world famous sire Sadler's Wells, Seventh Reason went through the 2007 Magic Millions sale ring for $2 million and contested seven barrier trials before being narrowly beaten on debut at Randwick in September.

Kiss Of The Dragon continued trainer Rod Craig's special affinity with the progeny of his former outstanding galloper Intergaze.

Described by Craig as almost a spitting image of his sire, Kiss Of The Dragon ($5.50) scored by three-quarters of a length from The Flying Fox ($8) with I Don't Recall ($51) a half-length away third.

The win gave veteran jockey Jim Cassidy a perfect 46th birthday present.

Birthday celebrations were also in order for Nathan Berry who booted home Dane Fontaine to win the Voyager Point Handicap (2100m).

Berry and his twin brother Tommy turned 18 on Wednesday.