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Wathnan Racing has made a remarkable start to the season, with their latest two-year-old purchases making a splash in their debut performances. Electrolyte, a £220,000 purchase from the Goffs UK Breeze-Up sales, has already won a 6f maiden at Ayr, while Catalyse, purchased for £300,000, has secured a two-length victory in a 6f novice race.
Electrolyte .the 2YO son of Hello Youmzain, made a promising start by finishing two and a quarter lengths ahead of Haazeez.
Electrolyte joined a string of successful debut performances for the owners, following Catalyse (purchased for £300,000), Aesterius (£380,000), and Columnist (£170,000), who secured wins at Hamilton, Bath, and Chester, respectively.
Richard Brown, racing adviser to Wathnan, said: "We've had five breeze-up runners and four of them have won first time out. It's great, obviously, but we're hoping they can go on to bigger and better things. All they can do is win first time out and hopefully a few of them might be able to turn up at Royal Ascot and give the team something to cheer about."
Meanwhile, after the Richard Fahey trained Catalyse secured a two-length victory in the 6f novice race under jockey Oisin Orr, Brown expressed his delight and stated a possible Royal Ascot discussion was now on the table.
“He did it very nicely. I haven't spoken to Richard or any of the Wathnan team but that was an impressive performance and an Ascot discussion will certainly be on the agenda."
Catalyse's win followed successful starts for Aesterius (bought for £380,0000) at Bath and Columnist (£170,000) at Chester and Brown said: "Wathnan decided we should buy some horses at the breeze-ups, to get some action.
"Royal Ascot is a very important meeting. We've run four and fortunately three of them have won first time out. Hopefully one or two of them might make it to the royal meeting."
Last year at the royal meeting, Wathnan's Gregory and Courage Mon Ami had a notable victory, and Brown is well aware of the importance of the event.
"It's the world's most famous race meeting where everybody comes from all over the world to watch and compete," he said. "It's important for us to have runners and hopefully we'll have chances.
"I can't imagine what happened last year will happen again, because we know how hard it is, but hopefully a couple of these two-year-olds can join the likes of Gregory and give us a sporting chance."