BY BEN SPORLE As a young trainer with eight horses in work, Pakenham-based horseman Trent Edmonds knows what stable star Extragalactic could do for his business. Edmonds is no stranger to success having co-trained Group 1 winners and travelling horses internationally and he knew launching a new stable interstate was going to be no easy task. Thankfully, the horse simply known around the stables as ‘Alice’, doesn’t know the weight on her shoulders as she kicks-off her spring preparation in the $200,000 Group 3 Paramount Liquor Carlyon Stakes (1000m) at Sandown on Saturday. “Every trainer needs one horse to kick them off and I’ve lived that with being my Dad’s foreman so I’ve seen what a good horse and results can do,” Edmonds says. “When we won the Magic Millions with Houtzen we went from 40 horses to 70 very quickly and the business took off and sprouted wings.” Edmonds specced the daughter of Deep Field for what now seems a very modest $160,000 as a yearling with his first bid at auction. His first horse to bring to Victoria, he recalls selling the final 5 per cent share on the tennis courts of Pakenham and it wouldn’t be long after her potential was on show for all to see. “ALICE” COULD TAKE EDMONDS TO WONDERLAND
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