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Immediacy hunting Group Two success
New Zealand-bred gelding Immediacy will be looking to bolster the Derby stocks of trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young when he heads to Caulfield on Saturday to tackle the Gr.2 Autumn Classic (1800m).
LOVERACING.NZ News Desk | February 23, 2024
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New Zealand-bred gelding Immediacy will be looking to bolster the Derby stocks of trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young when he heads to Caulfield on Saturday to tackle the Gr.2 Autumn Classic (1800m).

The son of Tarzino has made the perfect start to his career, winning his first two starts over 1500m and 1800m, and he could be in for an exciting autumn if he performs up to expectations this weekend.

The three-year-old will have the addition of blinkers on Saturday, a decision they made after consulting with jockey Luke Currie.

"We rung Luke and said 'What do you think'? And being Caulfield, where you want to be up on speed before that corner, he thought it was a good track to try them on," Young told Racing.com.

"It's just to make him concentrate a bit and he worked up in them on Tuesday and worked super and we put him through the gates on Thursday with them on as sometimes they can jump slow with them on first time.

"It's probably going to have him settle better rather than have him up on the bridle. He has done a lot wrong in those races, but class has got him through I guess."

Bred by Cambridge Stud’s Brendan and Jo Lindsay, Immediacy was purchased out of Riverrock Farm’s 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale by his trainers for $200,000, and Young said their son is taking credit for the purchase.

"I was driving to the airport and I had my son and I said 'Pick me a horse' and he's opened up the catalogue and picked out this horse," Young said.

"He was from a Pivotal mare, which is my kind of pedigree, and then we ended up getting there and liking the horse and how he breezed up and we ended up buying it."

Immediacy Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young