Australia: Well-bred Lost Impact still trying to find herself

The well-bred mare Lost Impact has an international pedigree, but a modest race record in five starts.

A 5-year-old mare, Lost Impact has won 2 of 5 starts in Australia and will be favored to win for the third time in a handicap at 1 1/4 miles at Warrnambool Racecourse on Thursday. Arguably, she should be farther along in her career.

Lost Impact was bred in Japan and is by top Japanese stallion Deep Impact. Lost Impact is out of Siren’s Song, who was a minor stakes winner in Ireland in 2011 and was seventh in the Group 1 English Oaks at Epsom Racecourse that year.

Whether Lost Impact advances to group-level stakes depends on races such as the handicap at Warrnambool, her second start after a three-month layoff. On Oct. 12, Lost Impact was second by two lengths in a handicap at about 1 3/16 miles at Kyneton Racecourse, closing steadily in the final half-mile.

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The race at Warrnambool will be the longest start for Lost Impact, who is trained by Warrnambool-based Lindsey Smith. Lost Impact is part of a field of nine that includes the five-time winner Hostar and the two-time winner Brawl.

Warrnambool has an eight-race program that begins at 10:10 p.m. Eastern or 7:10 p.m. Pacific on Wednesday. Wagering is available through DRFBets.com.

Hostar and Brawl start after mixed results in recent races.

Brawl, a 4-year-old gelding, won a one-mile handicap at Cranbourne Racecourse on Sept. 23, but was only seventh of 10 in a one-mile handicap at Ballarat on Oct. 10 as the 3-1 second choice. Jockey Brett Prebble told stewards that Brawl “failed to travel throughout” the race.

Brawl will race at 1 1/4 miles for the first time at Warrnambool.

Hostar won the Murtoa Cup at about 1 1/4 miles at Murtoa Racecourse on Oct. 2, and will have his fourth start of the month on Thursday. Hostar was fifth in the Hamilton Cup at 1 3/8 miles at Hamilton on Oct. 9 and third in a handicap at 1 15/16 miles at Warrnambool on Oct. 14.

Hostar tends to race from off the pace.