Gai Waterhouse and Denise Martin unearthed yet another likely stakes performer of the future at Randwick today with Squamosa winning brilliantly on debut.

A two-year-old son of Not a Single Doubt, Squamosa was sent out the hot favourite after a pair of brilliant trial wins at Warwick Farm and he lived up to the trials with a poweful on speed performance.

All smiles in the winner’s stall after the impressive was the colt’s purchaser, leading Sydney syndicator Denise Martin of Star Thoroughbreds.

“He’s a really smart colt,” Martin beamed. “He’s got a stack of ability.”

“He’s owned by the same family in Malaysia who race Gigas so they’re in with another great chance of high class racing with this colt.”

Martin purchased Squamosa from the draft of Arrowfield Stud at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale for $140,000.

In the run to the line Squamosa cruised home to beat fellow Gold Coast graduate Sabeen by three lengths.

The rest of the field, headed by Noble Romp, was another two and three quarter lengths back.

Winning rider Nash Rawiller couldn’t help but be impressed with the easy victory.

“He’s a young colt and probably a bit cheeky. He’s got really nice ability.”

“He’s the sort of horse who I thought would get through this sort of ground.” 

“He’s got a future,” Rawiller summed up.

Squamosa, a colt by former classy Magic Millions graduate and Not a Single Doubt, is a half brother to classy stablemate Flying Success.

They are both from the twice New Zealand stakes winning and Melbourne winning Success Express mare Class Success.

Further back it is the same family as international stakes winners including Vidor, Jo Knows, Semillon, Petite Fantasy and Desert Fantasy.

Not a Single Doubt, who won the Canonbury Stakes and placed in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, had already been represented by no fewer than seven stakes performers with just two crops to race.