G3-placed Sepoy">Sepoy filly, Chipanda, showed a brilliant display of speed to break her maiden in the Les Carlyon Two-year-old Plate over six furlongs at Rosehill on 21 May.
Returning to the racecourse after a break, the promising filly travelled comfortably throughout for jockey Brenton Avdulla but ran into trouble upon turning for home when she was unable to pursue an open gap. Shifting clear to an inside alley, Chipanda showed blistering speed to win by half a length from race favourite Legerity with Argie Bargie taking third.
Chipanda showed encouraging signs in her first preparation when finishing third in the G3 Widden Stakes over five and a half furlongs earlier this year. Her dam, Anabaa mare Lobola, has also produced Stakes winners Handfast and Rusambo and foaled a Sepoy brother to Chipanda last spring.
Chipanda is the fourth winner for Sepoy, joining the Stakes-placed winner She’s Positive, Giroux and recent impressive European winner Kilmah.
