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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
What Warwick Farm Races Where Warwick Farm Racecourse – 2 Hume Hwy, Warwick Farm NSW 2170 When Monday, January 27, 2025 First Race 1:15pm AEDT Visit Dabble Public Holiday racing returns to Warwick Farm on Monday afternoon, with a massive eight-race program lined up for the Australia Day long weekend. The Listed Australia Day Cup (2400m) headlines the action as the rail returns to the true position for the entire circuit, and although the track is rated a Soft 5 at the time of acceptances, more scattered showers could mean a downgrade into the Soft 6 or 7 range at some stage. All the action is scheduled to get underway at 1:15pm AEDT. Australia Day Cup Tip: Tajanis A mid-race move proved a winning tactic for Tajanis in his latest outing at Rosehill on January 18, claiming a dominant 5.5-length victory over fellow progressive stayer, Gilded Water. He relished every inch of the 2400m journey on that occasion, and although this Listed feature is deeper than what he faced in that BM78, the son of Australia has always shown potential black-type quality since his arrival. He gets in nicely here on the minimum 53kg, and with Zac Lloyd set to gain an economical run from stall three, Tajanis should get every chance to figure in the 2025 Australia Day Cup. Australia Day Cup Race 7 – #9 Tajanis (3) 5yo Gelding | T: Chris Waller | J: Zac Lloyd (53kg) +200 with Neds Best Bet at Warwick Farm: Automne Tree The Chris Waller-trained Automne Tree hit the line well, debuting at Canterbury on January 17, and was given little chance to figure after being dragged back to last. He then sustained a long run on the three-wide line heading into the home straight, whacking away gallantly in defeat behind stable companion Gatekeeper. The 1400m should be ideal for The Autumn Sun gelding, provided he can slot in for cover from gate 11. Automne Tree can make amends second-up at a good price with BlondeBet. Best Bet Race 3 – #1 Automne Tree (11) 3yo Gelding | T: Chris Waller | J: James McDonald (57.5kg) +400 with BlondeBet Next Best at Warwick Farm: Everybody Rise Everybody Rise has been a shade disappointing in his two starts this preparation but appears set to peak third-up into the campaign. He didn’t have much luck in a slowly run race in his latest outing at Wyong on New Year’s Eve, closing to within two lengths of Fly Scotty Fly. James McDonald gets legged aboard this time around, and with a more positive position in the run from barrier six, Everybody Rise can repay the faith at a nice price with horse racing bookmakers. Next Best Race 1 – #3 Everybody Rise (6) 3yo Gelding | T: Peter Snowden | J: James McDonald (56kg) +400 with Picklebet Best Value at Warwick Farm: Seven’s Seven’s makes his Australian debut after a 161-day spell, and the undefeated French import represents terrific each-way value with Dabble. The two-time winner posted an eye-catching barrier trial at Randwick on January 14 heading into this first-up assignment, and although the 1600m could be short of his best trip, the son of Bated Breath brings an element of class to this BM64 contest. He appears well-weighted courtesy of the 3kg claim of apprentice Braith Nock, and with even luck in running, expect Seven’s to give a good account of himself at his first start on Australian soil. Best Value Race 6 – #1 Seven’s (10) 4yo Gelding | T: Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald | J: Braith Nock (a3kg) (62kg) +1500 with Dabble Monday quaddie tips for Warwick Farm Warwick Farm quadrella selections January 27, 2025 1-2-3 1-4-7-11 1-7-9 4-5-8-9-16 | Copy this bet straight to your betslip Horse racing tips View the full article -
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New Zealand-based syndicator Go Racing have gone back to the proven well at Karaka to source what they hope to be their next champion juvenile. They went to $190,000 to secure last season’s New Zealand Champion Two-Year-Old Velocious out of Inglewood Stud’s 2023 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft, and the daughter of Written Tycoon took her syndicate on the ride of a lifetime. She carried the Go Racing silks to victories in the Listed Counties Challenge Stakes (1100m) and Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) before her breakthrough elite-level victory in Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m). In the midst of Velocious’ rise, Go Racing went to $300,000 at last year’s Karaka sales to purchase her Dundeel half-sister Alacritous and repeated the dose at Karaka on Sunday when going to $375,000 to secure her Per Incanto half-sister (lot 188). “We are absolutely rapt that we have bought her,” Go Racing General Manager Matt Allnutt said. “We were prepared to go a wee bit further. She is a queen of a filly and we are rapt to carry on our association with the family and Inglewood Stud.” While Allnutt said the Per Incanto filly has many similarities to her successful sister, he believes their recent purchase is a better type. “Velocious was a big, scopey filly in the same mould as this filly,” he said. “I think this is actually a nicer type. Being by Written Tycoon, Velocious is a wee bit long and that potentially put a few people off. “I just think this is an absolutely cracking filly and we will hopefully have a bit of fun with her in the future.” Like Velocious and Alacritous, the Per Incanto filly is set to be trained by Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh. “She will almost certainly be trained by Stephen,” Allnutt said. “He does a great job with our horses. We have had a long association with him, and we are happy to continue that relationship.” Meanwhile, Alacritous has shown a lot of promise to date for Marsh, according to Allnutt, and is set to make her debut in the coming months. “She had a trial just before Christmas,” Allnutt said. “We thought about pushing on and having a crack at getting into the Karaka Millions because she is precocious, but we really wanted to give her a second trial and there weren’t any trials for her for a month, so we decided to give her a bit if time out. “She is pre-training now and will come back into the stable soon. She will race as a two-year-old.” As reported earlier in the week, Velocious is making a pleasing return for Marsh after undergoing a wind operation last year following two sub-par performances early in her three-year-old term. “She had a jumpout last week and will have a quiet trial next week,” Allnutt said. “She will have two trials and then will be back and ready to race, all going well. “Her breathing was really good in the jumpout last week and she certainly hasn’t lost any of her speed. We were more than happy with what she did and are really looking forward to the future with her.” View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The colts had taken centre-stage on the opening day at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale before lot 168, a well-bred daughter of Too Darn Hot, entered the Karaka auditorium and was knocked down for $675,000 to the bid of bloodstock agent James Harron. Presented through the draft of Curraghmore, the filly is out of So You Think mare On The Ball, who was a placegetter at two, while her half-brother Swords Drawn is a multiple-Group Three performer, with Group Three winner Vigor Winner also in the family. On The Ball has swiftly made her mark as a broodmare, producing Group One performer Archaic Smile, and Roadcone, who has won two from four in Australia. Harron combined with Sydney trainer Michael Freedman and Tony Fung to form a fillies’ partnership to secure the filly. “All the team loved her and she is the one we all came together on,” Harron said. “She is just a very classy filly from a lovely family, a very exciting stallion from a very good farm in Curraghmore who just keeps getting winner after winner. A lovely filly with a lovely profile, it all stacked up and we were glad to get her.” While scouting fillies to purchase at Karaka, Harron indicated they were aiming to source an Oaks-type in favour of the early juvenile prospects. “When we are looking for the fillies over here, we are looking for what New Zealand does well and that is the mile, mile-and-a-half fillies who can maybe get over that Oaks distance,” he said. “She certainly had that classic look about her. She had a lovely attitude, nice long movement, very economical in how she did everything. “Through the year, we will pick up our two-year-old types. We wanted a more diverse spread of fillies that are going to do different things and that was the idea behind the strategy with the group before the start of this year. “She is very important to that strategy because she exemplifies everything we are looking for at this sale. She’s a lovely filly who has got that classic look with the right farm behind her and the right pedigree, let’s just hope we get a bit of luck.” View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Wootton Bassett was in vogue at Karaka on Sunday, with two of the top lots in the opening session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale sired by the Coolmore stallion. Just six lots in, a colt by the boom European sire, from Curraghmore’s draft, was knocked down to the $725,000 bid of Michael Freedman, Michael Wallace and Tom Magnier, the latter standing Wootton Bassett and owning his current Gr.1 Golden Slipper (1200m) favourite Wodeton. He is the first foal out of Nearco Stud mare Il Affare, a daughter of Dundeel who placed in the Gr.2 Royal Stakes (2000m), alongside fourth placings in the Gr.2 David and Karyn Ellis Fillies’ Classic (2000m) and Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m). While Il Affare was a capable stayer, her Group Three-winning half-sister Full Of Beauty earned more than HK$9.5 million in Hong Kong in the 1000m-1200m range. Sydney-based Freedman was immediately taken by the colt, who will continue a long-term association with Magnier’s Coolmore. “I just loved him,” Freedman said. “He’s a lovely moving horse and the stallion couldn’t be going any better. “We’ve known the Coolmore boys for a long time and back in the day, we trained quite a few for them. Tom and I have been chatting for a little while about trying to do something together and obviously he is by their stallion. “He was a colt that he really liked, so it just worked out well.” A fan of the sire, Freedman had anticipated the price and expects that to be the standard with his progeny going forward. “The stallion couldn’t be going any better and I don’t think they’re going to get any cheaper,” he said. “I think there’s 17 of them in the Easter catalogue in a couple of months’ time, so it was about what we thought we’d have to pay. “We were fortunate enough to have a lot to do with Danehills back in the day and so many of his good ones just had that really relaxed demeanour, and that’s what I’ve seen of his (Wotton Bassett) stock that I’ve had so far.” Later in the day, Cranbourne horseman Mick Price, who trains in partnership with Michael Kent Jnr, was also eager to source a colt by the Coolmore sire and was pleased to have the gavel knocked down to his $600,000 bid for lot 103, the Wootton Bassett half-brother to Group Three winner Francesca, who was offered through Windsor Park’s draft. “I liked it when I looked up and saw A$540,000,” quipped Price, in reference to the exchange rate. “I think he (Wootton Bassett) is an amazing stallion. We watched the whole story on him – the guy (Bobby O’Ryan) buys him for $200,000 and as a 12-year-old Coolmore buy him for $50 million. It can only be one thing – because his stock goes well.” Price was also taken by his dam-side pedigree, with his Group Three winner Ayrton featuring further down the page, and he believes the colt has the potential for a future career at stud. “He is a beautiful colt, and Ayrton is in the family,” Price said. “He is a beautiful stud-type of colt if we can get the right form with him. “One of my owners, Greg McCarthy, who bred Ayrton, bred him. I haven’t spoken with him yet, but I believe he is keeping 10 percent, Tom Magnier is keeping 10 percent, so we have got 80 percent to go.” Price was also pleased to secure lot 58, a son of his former Group One winner Tarzino, for $180,000 out of Westbury Stud’s draft. “He (Tarzino) was one of my boys, I was very fond of him,” Price said. “I have spoken with Westbury (Stud, who stand Tarzino) about how to breed that horse, and I think if you breed Tarzino to the sharper mares you get a better horse. “Jungle Magnate (Group One winner) we bought off Gerry (Harvey, Westbury Stud principal) for $75,000 and he’s out of a mare that had a bit of a turn of foot. I think they are the right Tarzinos, so I was happy to have him. “I paid a little more for him than I would have liked, but he is a late foal, and he is staying here (New Zealand).” View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The Gr.1 Australian Oaks at Randwick in April is part of an ambitious autumn plan for one of the country’s most promising fillies Aeliana (NZ) (Castelvecchio). The Gr.3 Carbine Club Stakes winner, who went on to a luckless second in the Gr.1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield in November, is back in work at Chris Waller’s Rosehill stables and is building up to a return to the races in the first week of March, according to managing owner Denise Martin. Purchased by Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds from Rich Hill Stud for NZ$180,000 at Karaka two years ago, Aeliana has been set the task of a Gr.1 Surround Stakes (1400m) first-up at Randwick on March 1, on her way to possible run in the $1 million Gr.1 Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick on April 12. In between, a run in the Gr.2 Phar Lap Stakes (1500m) on March 15 and the Gr.1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill on March 29 are likely. Martin said this week that while the program will surely test the Castelvecchio filly, who progressed from Benchmark grade in the spring, she is confident Aeliana will excel as she rises in distance. “Chris has a very interesting program in mind at the moment and it’s a very exciting one,” Martin said. “It starts off with the Surround on the first of March and possibly a fortnight later in the Phar Lap and if that went well, she could progress to the Vinery and then ultimately the Oaks if she was handling things well. “We’ve had some wonderful fillies and mares over the time in this business such as Driefontein, Danglissa, Invincibella, Foxplay, Espiona, etc… and this filly may be the best of them all in terms of ultimate achievement as she should get the chance at a number of Group One races across her career.” When Martin purchased Aeliana as a yearling, she was thinking she might get to 2000 metres, but a post-race conference with Waller and race rider James McDonald has convinced her an Oaks trip is within her range. “At Caulfield that day Chris said he had every confidence that she can progress to an Oaks and James was of the same opinion and until you try it, you really don’t know,” Martin said. Martin is on her way to the Karaka sales this week and there is one young horse who is sure to be marked in her book in Lot 351. She is a half-sister to Aeliana, by Proisir. View the full article
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