Cylinder Beach (NZ) Heads Stable Quinella in Gunsynd Classic

Ready to Run Sale graduate Cylinder Beach (NZ) (Showcasing) delivered a perfect result for trainer Desleigh Forster when he headed a stable quinella in the A$125,000 Group 3 Gunsynd Classic (1630m) at Doomben on Saturday.

Ridden by Michael Cahill, Cylinder Beach fought best in a tight finish and edged out stablemate Too Good To Refuse (Rothesay) by a head.

It was the first stakes win for the colt, who was bred by Tim Harrison and was put through the 2014 Ready to Run Sale by Te Runga Stud. He failed to meet his $60,000 reserve that day, but he has now earned more than A$150,000 for a large group of owners.

Cylinder Beach finished fourth in the Group 1 JJ Atkins as a two-year-old and is now likely to be given another opportunity at the elite level.

“He will go on to the Queensland Derby,” Forster said.

“Swap the barriers and we might have had a shot of beating Press Statement in the JJ Atkins last year. But he was immature and I knew we had a real horse.

“We were going to take him to Sydney for the Australian Derby but he had a few setbacks and we decided to wait for the winter.”