Solar Charged has stamped herself as the benchmark two-year-old so far this season and on Saturday at Rosehill trainer John O'Shea will take the wraps off another of his promising youngsters.O'Shea will start Ambers Waltz in the www.theraces.com.au Hcp (1100m) after the filly finished second to Solar Charged at her only trial.The stablemates have worked together frequently on the training track and there hasn't been a lot between them but despite her raw ability, Ambers Waltz needs to perform un
Solar Charged has stamped herself as the benchmark two-year-old so far this season and on Saturday at Rosehill trainer John O'Shea will take the wraps off another of his promising youngsters.
O'Shea will start Ambers Waltz in the www.theraces.com.au Hcp (1100m) after the filly finished second to Solar Charged at her only trial.
The stablemates have worked together frequently on the training track and there hasn't been a lot between them but despite her raw ability, Ambers Waltz needs to perform under race conditions before O'Shea starts making too many plans for the future.
"She is a completely different filly to the filly we ran last Saturday in terms of stature and pattern of racing," O'Shea said.
"On the track, they're not out there to break the sound barrier and like we said going into the race with Solar Charged, until you actually see them do it on race day, no matter what you think happens in the morning, they really need to do it on race day."
O'Shea's juvenile team is shaping up well this season yet just a few months ago he wondered if he would be playing much part in the major two-year-old races.
Last autumn he had quality colt Tickets, who won the Canonbury and Darley Stakes and was second in both the Group One AJC Sires' Produce and Champagne Stakes, while the well-bred Wanted won the Kindergarten Stakes.
Both colts were later transferred to Peter Moody for Melbourne spring campaigns and while O'Shea doesn't have the same number of high-profile youngsters this season, he has been pleasantly surprised by the quality of his stock.
"If you'd asked me at the start of the season in terms of their pedigrees, I would have said it wasn't my strongest bunch," O'Shea said.
"But the more I've done with them the happier I am.
"It's an amazing thing, if you'd asked me the season before I would have said it was the best crop of two-year-olds I'd had and that was probably reflected in both Wanted and Tickets being very competitive in the early two-year-old races.
"But obviously, this year we didn't have any of those boom, expensive yearlings but it has probably ended up being a better bunch of two-year-olds."
Ambers Waltz is by Danehill Dancer, also the sire of O'Shea's outstanding galloper Private Steer, out of a Don't Say Halo mare.
But it was her physical presence as a yearling that caught O'Shea's eye and that of renowned bloodstock agent James Bester who bought her for $550,000 at the Magic Millions sale.
The filly is raced in partnership by Keith Biggs who has enjoyed success with the likes of Melbourne Cup winner Doriemus.
Ambers Waltz was a candidate for Sunday's $200,000 Magic Millions Wyong Slipper but O'Shea elected to run her at Rosehill despite the more modest $70,000 prizemoney purse.
"The reality is that if we decide to have two bites of the cherry in terms of running in the Magic Millions and the Golden Slipper, unfortunately the Wyong money doesn't count towards the Slipper," O'Shea said.
Ambers Waltz will be one of two runners for O'Shea at Rosehill along with last-start winner Informality in the Top Cuts Steaks Hcp (1300m).