It was only a trial, but Catch A Wave set tongues wagging with an electric return to the track at Tabcorp Park on Monday night.
The boom Andy Gath-trained youngster sat third on the back of a hot early tempo, peeled out to make his run at the turn and then reeled in leader Its Ebonynivory and Major Meister before going on to score by 3m in a mile rate of 1:54.8min.
The Victoria Derby remains at the top of major targets for the three-year-old son of Captaintreacherous, who has won nine of 10 career starts and almost $300,000 in prizemoney to date.
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