Seraphox adds name to metro winning graduates
Seraphox loses his maiden tag at start No. 2
Metropolitan winning graduates of Baystone Farm continue to grow in number with the Ciaron Maher trained Seraphox becoming the latest when scoring an impressive victory at Warwick Farm in Sydney at just his second race start.
A striking chestnut son of Harry Angel (Ire) still in the 2-year-old ranks, Seraphox overcame a troubled passage in the short Warwick Farm straight to score going away in the hands of the prodigious James McDonald.
The Sydney win of Seraphox followed quickly on the heels of fellow graduate Rachini’s first career success registered over 1350m at Wyong in mid-March. At her only three other starts as a 2-year-old to date, the precocious daughter of Zoustar has contested the Listed Debutant Stakes (1000m), Group 2 Reisling Stakes (1200m) and Group 1 ATC Sires’ Produce (1400m) — the latter of which saw her run a highly creditable fourth.
Both Seraphox and Rachini were members of Baystone Farm’s 2025 Inglis Ready2Race Sale consignment at which they sold for $220,000 and $500,000 respectively.
Seraphox and Rachini follow the likes of Signature Scent, Facilitate, Borus’ Legacy and Torotena which were all offered at the 2024 Inglis Ready2Race Sale before going on to win early in their career. Signature Scent was a very recent winner at Morphettville in Adelaide having previously saluted at Bendigo (on debut) and Caulfield.
Such was the nature of Seraphox’s Sydney midweek win that the industry online publication ANZ Bloodstock made the very promising colt the ‘Maiden of the Week’, stating: “Seraphox showed the benefit of race experience at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, shedding his maiden tag in good style under James McDonald for trainer Ciaron Maher.
“The son of Darley’s underrated sire Harry Angel was far from disgraced on debut in the Todman Stakes [Gr 2, 1200m] when seventh, beaten only 4.1 lengths by the more experienced winner Paradoxium after covering ground throughout. The flashy chestnut duly franked that effort with a professional display back in maiden grade.”
Stable representative Amy Burke was then quoted as saying: “He’s a lovely horse and they’ve had a bit of an opinion of him from the beginning … he’s the ultimate professional and a very nice horse going forward.”
Burke concluded: “He’s a nice progressive horse who will only excel as he gets further.”