Tam Oshanter, a trotting gelding bred and owned in Victoria, is proving one of the finds of the season in Queensland.

The six-year-old chestnut has won five races since moving north including his last four on end at Albion Park – all from the standing start – and has worked his way back to a NR69 mark.

Tam Oshanter has now earned $64,734, an excellent return for the $13,000 paid for him at the Australasian Premier Trotting Sale in 2017 by a syndicate including well-known Victorian identities Roger and Wendy Dalton and Ken Brown.

The group previously raced the 2016 Vicbred two-year-old trotting champion and the winner of $140,000, Needabacardi, also an APTS sale graduate and a son of Bacardi Lindy, the sire of Tam Oshanter.

Tam Oshanter was originally trained by Graeme Johannesen, of True Roman fame, but owing to Graeme’s health problems, was transferred to Lisa Miles, who won four races with him including one at Melton.

“We sent him to Queensland so he could race in easier company,” syndicate spokesman Ken Brown said.

The gelding is prepared at Logan Village, south of Brisbane, by former NSW horseman Jack Butler, who rates him highly.

“He’s got such good speed. He should be competitive up here for a long time,” Butler said.

Butler said the gelding’s next mission is the Jim McNeil Memorial Trotting Championship to be held at Albion Park in February and March.

Bred by Ross Simpson, Tam Oshanter has something in his favour on the score of blood, being out of a Sundon sister to the NZ Dominion Handicap and Cochran Cup winner Whatsundermykilt and a half-sister to the Bill Collins Mile winner Glenbogle and to the dam of the NZ 4YO Trotting Mare of the Year Bonnie Highlander.

Other APTS sale graduates to win this week have been Muscletonian (Muscle Hill-Calder Luck) and Magical (Angus Hall-La Tonneralla), who both scored at Globe Derby Park.

* picture: Dan Costello Photography