Wins on his second start
KINGSTON, Jamaica - For the past few weeks three-year-olds have been surfacing for consideration in the upcoming Classic races. One of those new talents is the Ian Parsard-conditioned chestnut gelding Berning Red.
Berning Red, running only for the second time, defeated rivals in a native-bred three-year-old maiden condition race over 7 furlongs (1,400m) on Saturday, February 12.
Ridden by Omar Walker, Berning Red sat behind the early pace set by Precious P (Aaron Chatrie), Call The Emperor (Paul Francis) and Scooby (Oshane Nugent) before taking up the running navigating the half-mile turn. Berning Red’s main protagonist at that stage in the contest, Scooby then drifted to the outside rails while in the straight, thereby losing any chance he had of winning.
Berning Red turned up the gears in deep stretch to win by a length and a quarter ahead of Rum Puncher (Dane Nelson) and Scooby. The final time was 1:29.2.
“Berning Red looks like he is going to be useful. We are always happy when a home-bred foal wins to keep the flag of stallion Bern Identity flying. He is a half-brother to Kingsman a very good horse, so, we took the chance to keep his brother. Berning Red did not win impressively but like everything else, we are taking it one day at a time and likely with expected improvement he will get better, plus he was not extensively prepared as he took a short lay off from a sore shin he had.
“It looks like we have solved that problem. We did not want to drill him too much for this race but he was prepared well enough for the race to put a good foot forward and we are happy for the win. I would not say the win was expected as there were some good horses present; some of which had already run some good races.
“Berning Red was just in an 800 metres straight race in December and the sore shin caused him to be switching up his lead running as a two-year-old and so he did not give a good effort in his debut race. Having solved the problem and stepping forward who is to tell, is what will happen next," Parsard said.
