Fate Awaits: History in His Sights
LEVIATHAN owner Kevin Seymour hopes 2025 is the year of creating history.
Seymour’s young star Fate Awaits set the theme when he became the first three-year-old to beat the four-year-olds in last Saturday night’s $300,000 Group 1 Rising Sun at Albion Park.
The win effectively cemented his slot in the world’s richest harness race, the $2.1mil TAB Eureka at Menangle on September 6.
Fate Awaits will be chasing history again as no there-year-old has won the TAB Eureka – a feature restricted to three and four-year-olds – in its only two runnings.
Bay Of Biscay went close when he escaped a pocket late and flashed home for an unlucky second to subsequent Inter Dominion and Miracle Mile winner Don Hugo in last year’s TAB Eureka.
Seymour played a big part in that with the Emma Stewart-trained Bay Of Biscay racing in the slot owned by Seymour and his wife, Kay.
Fate Awaits will run in that slot this year.
“I’m a huge fan of the TAB Eureka and jumped at the chance to be part of it with a slot,” Seymour said. “Now Kay and I want to win it.
“We’ve run second both times so, it’s time to go one better.”
Just as he did in the Rising Sun, Fate Awaits will be trying to do something his champion stablemate Leap To Fame couldn’t do – win at his first attempt.
Leap To Fame finished third as a three-year-old in the Rising Sun and returned the next year to win at four.
His lone crack at the TAB Eureka was a fantastic second as a four-year-old, after doing all the work behind star mare Encipher in the inaugural event in 2023.
Leap To Fame has since become arguably the greatest pacer Australia has produced and is raging hot favourite for the $1 million Inter Dominion final at Albion Park on Saturday week. Victory will make him the richest Australasian pacer of all time.
Fate Awaits will tackle the Group 1 Queensland Derby at Albion Park on Saturday week before the focus switches to the TAB Eureka.
Seymour hopes to load his stocks for this year TAB Eureka with a second runner.
“We would love Path To Greatness to get a run, too,” he said. “He was fantastic after leading and finishing fourth in the Rising Sun and Grant (Dixon) insists there is very little between him and Fate Awaits, who got the easier run on his back last weekend.
“We’ve already had some interest from slot owners for Path To Greatness. He’ll go to the (Queensland) Derby next with Fate Awaits and I’ll be surprised if someone doesn’t snap him up.”
