OMOLONG EARNS A BIG NOD OF APPROVAL

By Graham Potter | Saturday, July 4, 2026

Omolong, a good looking chestnut colt, make it two wins from two starts when he came from off the pace to claim victory in a Two-Year-Old Handicap over 1100m at Rosehill.

The Chris Waller trained son of Extreme Choice found a strong market rivel in the form of the Bjorn Baker trained debutant Kotor … these two runners started equal favourites at $3.10 … , but when his only serious market-rival raced to the lead, pulling hard early and consequently failed to sustain a run when it mattered most (Kotor, in fact, fell away badly over the last 150m), the ball was firmly in Omolong’s court to show his worth.

Siena Grima, who had ridden Omolong quietly, patiently and in confident fashion in the first half of the race (he was all of seven lengths back at one stage) switched Omolong out wider on the track at the point of the home turn and started to wind up her mount with 400m left to run … and the Waller trained runner duly began to make up ground in a well measured fashion.

But the Peter Snowdon trained Seeiaye ($6.50), who had raced up on the speed throughout, was not about to make life easy for Omolong as Adam Hyeronimus had Seeiaye fightling on bravely, but Omolong was not going to be denied and he went past Seeiaye with 75m left to score an impressive win by a 0.51 length margin.

“I’m predicting he will have a great future … a race like the Coolmore down the straight later in the Spring would be ideal with a lot of improvement still to come to do that,” was Waller’s warning to Omolong’s future rivals.

“He is still very raw and developing … with a lot of upside to come.”