Stakes Wish comes true for Embellish

What You Wish For has credited our resident sire Embellish with his fourth individual black type winner.

The Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson representative stepped up to 2000 metres for the first time this preparation in the Listed Kaimai Stakes at Matamata and duly prevailed with a determined display.

We bred and sold What You Wish For, who settled in behind the pace on the fence and, once into the clear, the gelding finished determinedly to earn top honours.

He has now been successful four times, and placed in the G2 Waikato Guineas last season, but can be a tricky customer to get a line on at times, according to his co-trainer.

“He’s always promised a lot, but you wouldn’t want to play cards with him,” Walker said.

“With the stock of Embellish you have to be a bit patient, I think he is a really under-rated sire.”

What You Wish For was ridden by Craig Grylls who said the four-year-old travelled strongly and rounded off well in the straight.

“We crossed them and ended up in the trail and he was hard on the steel all the way, it was a great win.”

What You Wish For was a $60,000 purchase by David Ellis out of our 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale draft and the following year the Te Akau chief bought his half-sister by Savabeel, the unraced Wish Come True, for $190,000.

They are out of the Smart Missile mare Grand Wish, who is a half-sister to the G1 Galaxy Handicap winner Griante and the family of the G1 WATC Derby winner Grand Journey.

Grand Wish has a yearling colt by Sword Of State and foaled an Embellish filly last season before returning to the Group 1-winning son of Savabeel.

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