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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Australian ace makes call to ride Premier Bowl runner-up over Group One winner.View the full article -
That certainly raises the question that many have posed on here in the past. As a punter how can you quantify the improvement that might occur on the application of blinkers? Answer seems to be that you can't. Therefore it's pretty useless as a factor to consider when assessing a horse's chance. -
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After spending the past two years in a lucrative sprinting mode, I Wish I Win(NZ) (Savabeel) will return to racing in 2025 with a readjusted aim of establishing himself over longer trips. Co-trainer Peter Moody said I Wish I Win will return to work next week with the plan to test him out over further in a campaign which could culminate in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick over 2000m. “We’ve had a couple of cracks at sprinting, he’s been very good at it but now we’ll put him over some longer distances, which he’s been good at before, with the idea to stretch him out even further to 2000m,” Moody said. “He’ll now go over distances he’s bred to run over and they have always looked as if they would suit.” When I Wish I Win joined Moody’s stable in the spring of 2022, he finished an unlucky fifth in the Toorak Handicap (1600m) before he won the Golden Eagle (1500m) at Rosehill. They are the longest trips I Wish I Win has been over and since then Moody and Katherine Coleman have trained him as a sprinter with great success, as he claimed Group 1 wins in the 2023 T.J. Smith Stakes and 2024 Kingsford-Smith Stakes. He also finished second in the 2023 Everest and Black Caviar Lightning and in 2024 did likewise in the Doomben 10,000, as well as finishing third in the Manikato Stakes and T.J. Smith Stakes. At his most recent start, I Wish I Win finished last in The Everest and there was talk of retirement, but Moody said he has been bucking his brands off in the paddock. At this stage, Moody plans to get him ready for the G1 C.F. Orr Stakes (February 8) and the Futurity Stakes (February 22), both over 1400m at Caulfield and from there he hopes for a spot in the 2025 All-Star Mile at Flemington on March 8. Other races he is looking at are the G1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill on March 22 and the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Randwick on April 12. “We will put him back into work and get him up and rolling. If everything is alright, then we will push on and if there’s an issue we haven’t discovered yet, then we wouldn’t hesitate to retire him,” he said. I Wish I Win is a six-year-old gelding by Savabeel and has had 24 starts for seven wins and 13 placings with winnings of just under $13 million. View the full article -
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With two of the eight runners in Saturday’s Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield, Tony and Calvin McEvoy are hopeful their charges can be the ones to serve it up to Golden Slipper runner-up Coleman. The Ballarat-based duo will saddle up Rue de Royale(NZ) (Per Incanto) and Cavity Bay in the $500,000 contest and Tony McEvoy is confident his colt in particular, who placed behind Evaporate(NZ) (Per Incanto) and Henlein two starts ago in the G2 Stutt Stakes, can make his presence felt back to 1400 metres. While the earner of more than $700,000 might have only saluted once in a Bendigo maiden, Rue de Royale boasts a second placing to Traffic Warden over the distance from the VRC Sires’ earlier this year. “He has freshened up well and he is a pretty good horse, he has got us to a Blue Diamond, Golden Slipper and a Guineas,” McEvoy said. “He didn’t run the mile in the Guineas, he ran ok in the Stutt, which invited us to run, but he got to the 200 metres and didn’t finish it off.” Rue de Royale, who has jumped out between runs at Bendigo and will have winkers applied for the first time, has drawn beside Coleman in barrier four with Craig Williams booked to ride. McEvoy said with 1600m now off the agenda for the son of Per Incanto, ruling out a shot at the Sandown Guineas in a fortnight, it is likely to be his fifth and final run for the campaign. View the full article -
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Awapuni trainer Lisa Latta is no stranger to big-race success during New Zealand Cup Week, and she will have chances in each of the three feature events at Riccarton Park on Saturday. The Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) will come first, with Latta’s progressive filly Connello(NZ) (Time Test) bringing victories in her last two starts to the elite-level contest. The most recent of those was in open three-year-old company at Trentham in the hands of Tina Comignaghi, who retains the ride. “I’m looking forward to getting her up over a mile, I think she’ll definitely see it out and is looking for it at this stage,” Latta said. “She’s a very easy filly, very tractable and can jump and put herself anywhere. If the showers come in, that won’t worry her either.” A decade ago, Latta triumphed in the 1000 Guineas with Platinum Witness, and in her experience with runners in the race, she has found the benefit of juvenile racing and travel, both of which Connello has under her belt. “I think when they’ve had a couple of starts as a two-year-old, they are a bit more advanced than other horses, it makes it a bit easier to be ready for a race like this,” she said. “She’s also had a trip down there already, which is quite important.” In a market dominated by northerners Alabama Lass ($2.45) and Captured By Love ($2.70), Connello is an equal-fifth favourite at $16. A pair of Latta gallopers will contest the Listed Lindauer Stewards Stakes (1200m) in Platinum Attack and Lincoln’s Kruz, both of which were eye-catching finishers in the Listed Pegasus Stakes (1000m) last Saturday. “Platinum Attack just got too far out of his ground when he was slow away again,” she said. “He’s not drawn in an ideal spot again (11) but we’ll certainly be trying to ride him a touch handier. “Lincoln’s Kruz finished off nicely in the Pegasus, just from the one draw, a horse played up next to him and made him slow away, which was the undoing of the race. “He’s drawn well enough to get a better trip on Saturday (7).” Latta has a Stewards success on her mantelpiece from 2016 (Reilly Lincoln), leaving the Gr.3 Martin Collins New Zealand Cup (3200m), and she will be vying to take out the 161st edition of the iconic staying event with Sacred Pearl. A daughter of Sacred Falls, Sacred Pearl(NZ) (Sacred Falls) has been in sterling form of late, with back-to-back victories in the Egmont Cup (2200m) and Feilding Cup (2100m) in her most recent appearances. Visiting Australian jockey Harry Grace was on board in both races, and he will ride the mare on Saturday, navigating an unfavourable draw of 15. “We nominated her so we were hoping that she would come up for it, the 3200m is a bit of a question mark, but that’s probably the case for a lot of the field,” Latta said. “She settles well in her races and I can’t see any reason why she won’t see it out. She just needs to get some cover from the draw, it’s not ideal and is pretty wide.” Completing Latta’s Riccarton contingent will be Group Two winner Lantern Way(NZ) (Satono Aladdin), who takes his place in the Discover Niue Premier (1600m). View the full article
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