By Mike Dillon
"The real thing," is how Lance O'Sullivan described Kasman after his runaway first-up win at Taupo yesterday.
"This is a serious horse," O'Sull- ivan said after Kasman left a fit Jaiapeno and last season's champion juvenile One Under behind in a dashing first-up victory.
"What you need to remember is this horse has had only one trial and now two races - there is a huge amount of improvement in him," O'Sullivan said.
"He had his last gallop last Wednesday and he's going to be a lot better from now on."
Kasman is a half brother by Kashani to class group one Australian sprinting mare Dantelah and, unlike Jaiapeno, had not had a trial going into yesterday's race.
Neither had One Under and while she was clearly outpointed yesterday, she had no pressure put on her when the job looked hopeless from the 150m mark.
Kasman, and probably One Under, will now go forward to the Hawkes Bay Guineas, where both will be much closer to full fitness.
Kasman loomed up to the leader on the home bend yesterday and raced clear without O'Sullivan having to apply too much pressure.
"If I'd hauled off and laid four or five around his rump he'd have run away and won by five lengths.
"But the last thing I wanted was for him to have a hard race. The same applies to One Under."
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