Clarry Conners’s Gone To Gowings (Farnan) showed grit to win her trial on Tuesday by half a length, but the Gary Portelli-trained Farcolo (Farnan) was the heat’s real eye-catcher when burning home to finish third. Gone To Gowings and runner-up Handloom (Exceed And Excel) had pulled away from the pack in the home straight, when Farcolo came sprinting from the back to cross the line two lengths behind with that gap rapidly closing over the following 50 metres.
David Norris purchased Gone To Gowings for $260,000 from Yarraman Park Stud’s 2025 Gold Coast draft, while Portelli paid $20,000 for Farcolo at the following Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, where she was offered by Middlebrook Valley Lodge.
Gone To Gowings’s dam Devout Heiress (USA) (Speightstown {USA}), a close relation to G1 Newmarket Handicap winner Zoutori (Zoustar), had her Exceed And Excel filly sell at the Gold Coast last month for $140,000 to Malua Bloodstock. She has a Farnan colt at foot and visited Harry Angel (Ire) in 2025.
Article c/o The Thoroughbred Report Aus/NZ
