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Well what do you think he means then when he asks NZTR to take a different course from the current one? -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
My Wish wins the Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m). (Photo: HKJC) Mark Newnham is optimistic My Wish can make a triumphant start to an ambitious 2025/26 campaign when the rising star resumes in the HK$4.2 million Group 3 Celebration Cup Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday. Newnham orchestrated My Wish’s stunning advance last season when the diminutive gelding progressed from a rating of 54 and Class 4 company to a mark of 105 and standing as a genuine Group 1 contender with four wins, two seconds, two thirds and a fourth from nine starts. The Australian horseman believes My Wish has benefited from a spell and natural maturity after the 2025 HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) winner and HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) runner-up’s rousing trial win at Sha Tin on 19 September. “I’m really pleased with him. He’s mentally and physically stronger and he’s more relaxed in the mornings. His appetite is better so I would say he’s made improvements in a lot of little areas,” Newnham said of My Wish. Drawn in barrier four for Luke Ferraris, My Wish will carry 130lb on Sunday when he faces 13 rivals – Happy Together (135lb), Copartner Prance (134lb), Patch Of Theta (134lb), Victor The Winner (134lb), Moments In Time (132lb), Packing Hermod (132lb), Sunlight Power (132lb), Rubylot (130lb), Divano (129lb), Pray For Mir (128lb), Light Years Charm (125lb), Johannes Brahms (120lb) and Markwin (116lb). “I would say he’d be very hard to beat,” Newnham said. “He’s a horse that doesn’t carry a lot of excess weight, so he gets himself fairly ready and he’s run well and won first-up last season. He’s a horse that performs fresh. He’s actually weighing at over 1,000 pounds at the moment and everyone will be happy with that. “He’s just strengthened up that much more and I think he’s got a good season ahead.” Fourth in the HK$24 million Group 1 FWD Champions Mile (1600m) in April behind Red Lion, My Wish is unbeaten in two attempts over Sha Tin’s 1400m course. Newnham plans to give My Wish another tilt at elite company when the five-year-old will be aimed at the HK$36 million Group 1 Hong Kong Mile (1600m) on December 14. “The international mile is his main goal so this week’s race is three months before then with the two Group 2 miles (Group 2 Sha Tin Trophy Handicap and BOCHK Private Wealth Jockey Club Mile) in between,” Newnham said. My Wish will renew a burgeoning rivalry this Sunday with David Hayes-trained Rubylot, who is also on a pathway to the Hong Kong International Races. The six-time Sha Tin winner – from 1000m to 1800m – reappears for the first time since running second in the HK$13 million Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) behind Voyage Bubble on May 25. To be ridden by Hugh Bowman, Rubylot will start from gate 14. “He’s definitely improved. He’s a bigger, stronger horse. I thought his last trial was excellent and he never runs a bad race fresh,” Hayes said. “He’s got good form from 1000 metres to 2400. I have a concern for My Wish. “There wasn’t much between him and Rubylot last year and I was quite taken by My Wish’s trial from an opposition point of view.” Hayes said the HK$5.35 million Group 2 Sha Tin Trophy Handicap (1600m) would be used to decide whether Rubylot is set for the Hong Kong Mile or the HK$40 million Group 1 Hong Kong Cup (2000m). “The Sha Tin Trophy will be the race we decide which race we’ll target on international day – either the Mile or the Cup,” Hayes said. Horse racing news View the full article -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
I read it differently. Perhaps you and @Freda should ask him what he means. My read is that international recognised status is important and he questions the Australian approach. -
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Skybird ridden by John Allen winning the Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington. (Photo: Pat Scala/Racing Photos) Inglis have confirm Group 1 winner Skybird as their representative for the running of the $20m The Everest (1200m) at Randwick. The Mitch Freedman-trainee claimed her breakthrough Group 1 victory when Skybird produced an explosive performance to win the Lightning Stakes over 1000m at Flemington in February. In winning the Lightning, at just her 12th start and her first attempt in Group 1 company over a sprinting distance, Skybird earned a 102 WFA Performance Rating to announce her arrival amongst the most dynamic sprinters in the country. Ruled out of the remainder of the autumn due to injury, Skybird made her return in the Group 1 Moir Stakes just over a fortnight ago and was beaten by just two lengths despite a luckless run. Skybird will contest the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley before progressing to The Everest at Randwick on October 18. Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch was delighted Skybird will be representing Inglis in what is the world’s most valuable race on turf. “Since it’s inception, The Everest has been a captivating spectacle and the race in 2025 is shaping up as the most enthralling yet,” he said. “We work diligently through the year in consideration of prospective runners for our slot and Skybird catapulted to the forefront of our consideration with her win in the Lightning, which was nothing short of awesome. “Mitch Freedman is a young trainer that the market has a lot of respect for and he has been very patient in his development of this filly, she is unexposed, progressive and shaping as a candidate to produce a career best at Randwick on Everest day. “It’s been enjoyable to liaise with (Managing Owner) Michael (Scalzo) through the slot negotiations and the ownership experience of the Skybird owners is yet another fantastic promotion of our business and the industry as a whole, a $110,000 Inglis Classic Yearling that becomes a G1 winner of almost $1.3m in prizemoney and is now competing in the best sprint race in the world. “It’s the stuff that dreams are made of. “We are under no illusions as to the challenge that race presents, but we are very much looking forward to the build up to the race, which will include the Inglis Ready2Race Sale at Riverside Stables on October 16, and the race day itself,” added Hutch. For trainer Mitch Freedman, the opportunity to be a part of such a prestigious race is a reflection of the hard work of the team behind Skybird. “We all go to the yearling sales with a dream of finding a horse like her. To purchase a horse like Skybird, bring her through our system and to now to be a part of the most elite sprinting race in our country, if not the world, truly is an honour,” said Freedman. “She has been part of the stable since she was a yearling and her success to date is truly a credit to the team around me who help to prepare her. “She is an exceptional talent and it’s very exciting to take up the Inglis slot, given she was an Inglis purchase, and it really is a dream come true for all of the team at Mitch Freedman Racing. “We are looking forward to taking her to Randwick to have her compete with some of the best sprinters in the world and I think she is more than capable of making her presence felt,” said Freedman. Skybird is a $110,000 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale graduate for Mitch Freedman Racing, offered by her breeder HP Thoroughbreds in 2022. She is the ninth confirmed runner in the world’s richest turf race and the sixth Inglis graduate to earn a slot alongside Overpass, Joliestar, Lady Shenandoah, Private Harry and Angel Capital. Skybird is one of 109 individual Group 1-winning Inglis graduates since 2018 and will be looking to become the third consecutive Inglis graduate to win The Everest, as well as giving Inglis its seventh graduate win in the ninth running of the world-famous race. Horse racing news View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Sydney-based trainer Joe Pride has selected the Stocks Stakes as a suitable stakes target for Aberlour (NZ) (Mongolian Falcon), with the mare set to be among the interstate challengers in the Group 2 race at Moonee Valley on Friday night. A winner of two Listed races in NZ as a three-year-old before joining the Pride stable, Aberlour has found some consistent form in her recent races in Sydney after notching her first Australian win in a Benchmark race at Randwick in July. After a runner-up finish to subsequent G3 winner Oh Diamond Lil (So You Think) in late July, Aberlour then resumed from a let-up with a close third at Randwick earlier this month in Benchmark 94 grade after leading. Pride felt Friday night’s G2 race for mares over 1500m at The Valley is a good option for the five-year-old, whose wins in the Listed Gore Guineas and Listed Southland Guineas across the Tasman in early 2024 came racing in the anti-clockwise direction. “A few weeks ago, I just thought ‘I want to get her into a Stakes race because I think she’s going well’ and this race looked the most winnable of the races I had as options,” Pride said. “She’s going super. “She ran a really nice second to David Pfieffer’s mare Oh Diamond Lil and she came out and won the Tibbie and there’s a little bit of form out of her last run as well. “She’s actually won (three times) going Melbourne way in New Zealand, around tight, little tracks and I just think her pattern will really suit Moonee Valley.” Pride said Aberlour arrived in Victoria on Wednesday in good order. “She’ll run really well,” he said. “It took me a little while, but I’ve worked her out now and got her comfortable in her surroundings here. “She’s come from Riverton in New Zealand at the bottom of the South Island and it just took a bit of an adjustment period for her. But since she’s been racing well, she’s held her form really consistently.” Aberlour is not the only Sydney-based mare to head south for the Stocks Stakes, with Michael Freedman’s last-start Stakes winner Just Feelin’ Lucky (Justify) among the contenders, while Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller has also sent Molly Bloom (NZ) (Ace High) to his Flemington stable to continue her campaign in the race on her way to targets later in the Victorian Spring Carnival. View the full article
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