Brampton Headed For The Top (May 21 2010)

The well-related Brampton looks a three-year-old destined to make his mark in good company after coasting to victory at Bendigo. The WS-bred and sold son of Pins had finished runner-up on debut earlier in the month and had no trouble going one better yesterday.

He has overcome an eventful start to his life after illness forced his withdrawal from the 2008 Premier Sale at Karaka. He was subsequently entered in the Sydney Easter Sale where he was claimed for $A300,000 by Nick Williams, son of high-profile Melbourne owner Lloyd, and is prepared at Macedon Lodge by private trainer Robert Hickmott.

Brampton is out of the Defensive Play mare Playful Fingers who was the dual black-type winner of the Champagne Stakes and, appropriately, the Waikato Stud Wanganui Stakes. Her pedigree also features WS graduate Hancock Park (Pompeii Court) who was a Gr 3 winner and Gr 1 placed in South Africa.