Multiple group one performer Savile Row has left home in search of a breakthrough top-flight victory that will complete his stallion CV.
The rising four-year-old has finished runner-up three times at the top level from the Matamata stable of Michael Moroney and Pam Gerard, with the former to now guidethe colt's future from his Flemington operation.
"Savile Row left for Melbourne this morning [yesterday]," said Jonathan Scully, racing manager for breeder-owner Kevin Hickman. "He's done four or five weeks work here and we've mixed it up.
"He's been on the treadmill and up the hills in the farm paddocks. We've kept it varied and he's been loving it, his brain's in a good space.
"He has matured a lot and he's a completely different horse this time around."
A son of Makfi and the winning English-bred Daylami mare Fleece, Savile Row has won two of his eight starts and was runner-up in the group one New Zealand 2000 Guineas, the group one Levin Classic and against the older horses in the group one Herbie Dyke Stakes.
"Mike is looking at kicking him off in the Bobbie Lewis, a group two over 1200 metres at Flemington on September 16 and he normally goes very well fresh," said Scully.
"In the dream world he would end up in the Cox Plate."
