Glam win by promising two-year-old

Southland trainer Ebony Turner is excited about the future with her two-year-old filly Glamour Extreme (Extreme Warrior) following her eye-catching debut victory in the John Borrie & Peter Cook (1200m) at Oamaru on Sunday.

From her outside gate in the 14-horse field, the daughter of Extreme Warrior settled midfield for jockey Rohan Mudhoo, who bided his time before asking his charge to improve three wide with 500m to go. Down the home straight, Mudhoo guided Glamour Extreme to the better footing out wide and she bounded away to score a comfortable two-length victory.

While Glamour Extreme had not had a trial prior to her debut, she had impressed in two jump outs, but was unwanted by punters, who let her drift to 28-1 odds, and Turner was pleased to get the win and reward her backers handsomely.

“I am rapt,” Turner said. “She is a cool wee horse.

“I am proud of what she has done and how fast those wee legs can go.

“She had a jump out at Invercargill a couple of months ago and she won that with a leg in the air. She had another jump out at Wingatui just over a month ago and she went down by a nose under a hold.

“I was pretty confident, I knew she has got ability.”

Purchased by Kerri Spence Bloodstock at the 2024 Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale for A$6,000, Glamour Extreme was subsequently offered through Highline Thoroughbreds’ 2025 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 2 Yearling Sale draft, but she failed to reach her $22,000 reserve.

Turner was subsequently offered the filly and she jumped at the opportunity.

“Kerry bought her in Australia and she got broken in up north,” Turner said. “Kerry offered me 50 percent in her and I said yes.

“She has come up so quickly and she is so professional, so I thought we would run her as a two-year-old and see how we get on and she has come along in leaps and bounds in the last couple of months.”

Buoyed by the dominance of her debut victory, Turner said she will head home to study the spring programme and map out a plan towards some stakes targets.

“I will have a look to see what is available for her at the Grand National (Carnival) and go from there,” she said. “If there is something I think suits, we will probably go there, and if not, we will look further into the programme and just find something nice for her.

“Off that run I am pretty confident that she will give them a wee shake at stakes level. There are a lot of nice three-year-old races coming up and I am not against having a nudge at the Guineas (Gr.1, 1600m).”

Turner was also pleased with stablemate Penvose Lad’s placing in the Glenmoa Farms LTD River Plate Trophy (1200m).

The five-year-old gelding had been in a purple patch of form prior to his last start at Ashburton where he beat one runner home over 1400m, and Turner was pleased to see him bounce back to form.

“We were stoked with him today,” she said. “Last start left us scratching our heads, so it was good to see him come back fighting with those visor blinkers on today.”