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Peter Snowden believes impressive Randwick winner Grand Prairie can measure up in the spring
Master trainer Peter Snowden added another promising youngster to his growing spring arsenal when blue-blood colt Grand Prairie returned with a bang at Randwick Kensington on Wednesday.
Less than a month after brilliant stablemate Raging Force stamped his authority at the same track, Grand Prairie highlighted his spring credentials with a determined first-up success.
Grand Prairie ($6) battled hard late to hold off the Chris Waller-trained Pictor ($31) in the TAB Maiden Plate (1100m).
Both horses race in the colours of heavyweights Yulong, which bred Grand Prairie from its ever-growing broodmare band.
Grand Prairie is by Written Tycoon out of Group 1 winner Viddora, the latter of which was a was sold to Yulong as a breeding prospect for $2.55m in 2020.
'He is a nice horse, we've always liked him,' Snowden said.
'He is still learning, having a look around at other horses and when he got to the front he stargazed a little bit.
'That's good because he is still wining and doing that because you know with more race experience, the better he will get.'
Grand Prairie just does enough to hold off Pictor and wins at Randwick-Kensington for @SnowdenRacing1! 🙌
— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) July 16, 2025
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Snowden is still working out whether Grand Prairie is an out-and-out sprinter or whether he will be suited stepping out to 1400m to a mile.
With the spring carnival right just around the corner, the Randwick trainer will have plenty of options to choose from in the coming months.
'He is in the right time of year and is ready to launch,' Snowden said.
'There is lot of good racing coming up. It is up to him whether he keeps stepping up but he has a great pedigree out of a very good mare.
'It's pleasing to have the Yulong horses going well.
'It's not a bad race either, there is a bit of depth in that so the fact is he has won and won like that, and he's still learning.'
It's an easy watch at the Kenso track with Custom firing home to take out the third! 🚀 @JamesCummings88 | @ZacLloydx
— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) July 16, 2025
There will be no shortage of trainers putting their hand up to take over the training duties of exciting Godolphin filly Custom.
The daughter of Street Boss made a sensational return from a break when she bolted home from back in the field to score by 1¼ lengths in the Drinkwise Maiden Plate (1100m).
Custom is currently trained by James Cummings but Godolphin will move to a public training model on August 1, meaning the filly will find a new home.
That new stable is still to be confirmed.
