Star 3YO Aegon Spot-On for Karaka Million

Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman were buoyed by Aegon’s 1200m trial victory at Matamata on Tuesday ahead of his tilt at the Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie later this month. The Group 1-winning colt sat in the trail behind Mannie’s Power before jockey Leith Innes asked him to improve at the 400m mark, and he ran away to a comfortable half-length victory. “He was still half a length slow out, but I guess the intention was to ride him a bit closer and obviously you can’t give them the start in big fields as you go up in grade against better horses,” Forsman said. “It is nice to see that as he has matured, he has got a bit stronger and he probably does have the ability to do that now.” The son of Sacred Falls will now head to the Karaka Million on January 23 for which he is currently a $2.20 favourite with TAB bookmakers, ahead of Te Akau’s Amarelinha ($2.40). It (the Karaka Million 3YO) rolls around pretty quickly for him but he is in as good order as we can have him knowing he has a long preparation ahead of him,” Forsman said.

Aegon has trialled well ahead of the Karaka Million (pic: Trish Dunell)