Time to be promising Argyle’s best friend

Patience will be the key to the well-related three-year-old Argyle fulfilling his rich potential.

The Cody Cole-prepared son of Tivaci was third on debut at Otaki early last month and made a successful return to the Central Districts with a 1400 metre victory at Trentham.

Our homebred, who hails from the legendary Eight Carat family, is far from the finished article and Cole is more than happy to play a waiting game with the three-year-old.

“He’s got so much improvement to come, he’s still very green and you won’t see much more of him until the spring,” he said.

Argyle was quicky into stride and settled in the trail before he was off the fence before the turn to produce a sustained finish in the hands of Kevin Stott.

“They didn’t go very quickly early and when they did get rolling, he hit top gear,” he said. “He is very green but he’s a really nice horse in the making.”

Argyle is out of the late Zabeel mare Diamond Smile whose dam Diamond Lover won the G1 Railway Handicap and produced the top-flight winners Don Eduardo and Tristalove.

It’s a pedigree page littered with quality black type performers, including the G1 Australian Guineas winner Feroce.

Diamond Smile is also the mother of the G1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas placegetter Capital Diamond, whose daughter Gift Of Power won the G2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes, and the dam of G3 Wellington Stakes winner Devastate.

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