The Ultra-consistent middle-distance performer Trap For Fools is proving himself to be one of the more durable performers in Australian racing, notching his sixth win in succession at Ascot on Wednesday.
The son of Poet’s Voice led throughout to win the Listed ATA Stakes, having won in similar dashing style over the same 2,200m course 10 days earlier.
That effort earned Trap For Fools favouritism for the G2 Perth Cup on New Year’s Day.
But before that race, he may well have another start, with trainer Lindsay Smith proposing to run the four-year-old again within the week.
Smith describes Trap For Fools as a horse who thrives on hard work, and assuming he has taken no harm from his latest win, the trainer intends to line him up in the G2 Ted van Heemst Stakes over 2,100m at Ascot on Saturday.
The ATA Stakes success was the gelding’s eighth from his past nine starts, earning him a high-ranking among the southern-hemisphere offspring of Poet’s Voice who is also represented in Australia by the Stakes winners Viridine and My Country.
Trap For Fools, who was bred by Distinct Racing and Breeding, jumped straight to the front, resisting a series of challenges down the running to defeat Dark Alert and Not Again Ken.
Trap For Fools is a member of a prominent West Australian family, his dam Old Money having won the G1 WA Derby, the G2 CB Cox Stakes and the G2 WA Oaks.
Her brother Old Cobber won 14 races, including the CB Cox Stakes twice, with the family also including Linc The Leopard who won the Perth Cup when it was a G1 race.
Poet’s Voice stands at Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket at a fee of £6,000, Oct 1, Special Live Foal.
