Three year-old Purrealist gelding Tigger opened his account at the first time of asking for the Enver Jusufovic stable.
Drawn the outside in a field of 15, Tigger proved too good in drawing clear to
win the 1200 metre maiden by the best part of a length in a good tough
performance on debut.A $40,000 Inglis Premier purchase for his trainer from the Yallambee Stud draft, Tigger is a half-brother to Group I Tatts Tiara winner Pear Tart and is the fourth winner form blue-blooded import Tangerine Dream (Fr).
A daughter of champion sire Sadler's Wells, Tangerine Dream is a sister to stakes-winner Sensible from the family of current European Group I winner Erupt that traces back to celebrated matriarch Fanfreluche.
Tangerine Dream was bought for $110,000 by Paul Willetts at the 2013 Inglis Broodmare Sale for Three Bridges Thoroughbreds.
She has since produced a Snitzel colt for them that was sold earlier this year as a weanling for $150,000 and had a colt foal this spring to their exciting new young sire Unencumbered.
Tigger looks a good prospect for his sire Purrealist, who has left four stakes-winners headed by Group I winner Hawkspur.
