Go Racing’s smart three-year-old Maison Louis (NZ) (Super Seth) is being aimed toward the Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) on May 31 following his win in the TAB Handicap (1900m) at Canterbury on Monday.
Jumping from barrier three, Maison Louis maintained a midfield position one off the rail, until the 300m mark when he was peeled four-wide, running down the leader, Existential Bob, to win by three-quarters of a length in comfortable fashion.
The John O’Shea and Tom Charlton-trained son of Super Seth has now had three wins, and a second and a fifth placing, from five career starts.
“He was really good yesterday picking up another win,” O’Shea said. “He’s developing into a lovely middle-distance horse, and he’s got a great appetite for racing.
“Being that they’re only three once we’re going to give him the opportunity to run in a stakes race. We’ll take him to Queensland to run in the Rough Habit Plate (Gr.3, 2000m) on May 17 which is a lead up to the Queensland Derby.”
Jockey Andrew Adkins, who has been onboard in all his races, also has a good opinion of the Pencarrow Stud-bred gelding.
“He’s kept doing the right things,” he said. “He came through his last win really well and he had a beautiful run in transit today and he’s showed what he can do lately.
“I just love the way he puts them away and goes past them and leaves them, he doesn’t wait around, he doesn’t grind to the line, he sprints, and he knows where he is in the races which is the sign of a smart horse.”
By last season’s Champion First Season Sire, Super Seth who stands at Waikato Stud, Maison Louis was purchased from Pencarrow Stud’s 2023 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Book 1 draft for $250,000.
He is out of the Listed Matamata Cup winner Cote D’Or, who is from the famous Pencarrow family of Ethereal, Grant Echezeaux, Darci Brahma and Howard Be Thy Name.