Promising two-year-old gelding Prime Star has taken out the $2 million Inglis Millennium (1100m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, saluting as a handy double-digit pop for punters.

The gelding by StarSpangledBanner went around at $18.00 odds with Ladbrokes.com.au, a quote Michael Freedman couldn’t quite work out.

There was plenty of pace in the race with Absolutely Foxy dictating from the front, but it was Prime Star who made up ground down to win by a head on the outside of second place-getter Bella Nipotina.

“I was a little surprised that he was as bigger odds today as they had him. I thought his form had been pretty sound,” the winning trainer said.

Jockey Tom Marquand rode Prime Star first-up at Gosford last month before Keagan Latham took over in Newcastle. Marquand said he had some doubts racing on a Heavy 9, but that he felt confident in his horses turn of foot out of the gate.

“I knew within about three strides. You know when the ground is this bad if they can’t jump and travel, you’re cooked from the word go. He jumped up into the bridle and he takes it all in his stride, unbelievable” Marquand said.

Prime Star was a $55,000 purchase by the Freedman stable and now looks to be one to follow. Freedman said he’s okay if his horse doesn’t win another race, but he will consider his options moving forward.

“We’ll have to rethink what we do with him from here. If he comes through here today okay, we’ll certainly look at some of the upcoming two-year-old races” Freedman said.

“We’re probably still a long way off getting into a Slipper or anything like that, but there’s lots of options for two-year-old’s outside of the Slipper, so if he goes home and has a good week we’ll reconsider.”

Complete 2020 Inglis Millenium Results can be viewed below. 

Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight
1	5	PRIME STAR	Richard & Michael Freedman	Tom Marquand	7	56.5kg
2	8	BELLA NIPOTINA	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Brenton Avdulla	0.2L	10	54.5kg
3	3	LARIMER STREET	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Glen Boss	1L	1	56.5kg
4	16e	ABSOLUTELY FOXY	Gary Portelli	Tim Clark	1.2L	5	54.5kg
5	10	SUNBORN	Edward Cummings	Glyn Schofield	2.5L	8	54.5kg
6	1	ENCOUNTABULL	John Sargent	James McDonald	2.9L	2	56.5kg
7	2	OSAMU	Chris Waller	Kerrin McEvoy	3.7L	3	56.5kg
8	6	FIXATED	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Regan Bayliss	5.2L	6	56.5kg
9	11	STOLEN GLANCE	Gwenda Markwell	Sam Clipperton	6.7L	11	54.5kg
10	4	MARNIX	James Cummings	Nash Rawiller	7.7L	4	56.5kg
11	7	CHARMING PAT	Trevor Sutherland	Blaike McDougall	11.5L	9	56.5kg
12	14	VERY SHARP	Rodney Northam	Ms Kathy O’Hara	19L	12	54.5kg