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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Stepping lively down the lane, Zany (American Pharoah–Mo' Green, by Uncle Mo) ran to her odds as she took the 104th running of the GII Demoiselle Stakes at the Big A on Saturday and earned herself 10 points on the trail to the GI Kentucky Oaks. A first-out winner on debut at Gulfstream Park in early November, the 2-year-old was backed to the hilt at the windows for her first higher-level attempt. Zany tracked Shilling (Global Campaign) into the first turn and up the backstretch. When it was time to move, the chalk responded to the outside and entered the lane full of run. She proceeded to run up the score and win by multiple length in geared-down fashion. Jumping the Gun (Gun Runner) was the runner-up. The final running time was 1:50.55. The win gave trainer Todd Pletcher his 10th Demoiselle. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0. Sales History: $350,000 FTSAUG '24. O-Repole Stabe; B-D.J. Stable (KY); T-Todd Pletcher. The post Oaks Points Go To Zany As She Runs Up Score In Demoiselle Stakes At Big A appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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New Zealand-breds filled three of the first four placings in Saturday’s A$1.5 million Tabtouch Northerly Stakes (1800m) at Ascot, headed by tenacious and impressive winner Cosmic Crusader (NZ) (Maurice). Carrying on from highly successful spring carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne, where Group One victories were recorded by Kiwi-breds Mr Brightside (NZ) (Bullbars), Globe (NZ) (Charm Spirit), Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress), Ceolwulf (NZ) (Tavistock) (two) and Jimmysstar (NZ) (Per Incanto), Cosmic Crusader brought up the seventh Group One win for the (NZ) suffix in Australia this season and was backed up by third and fourth placegetters Western Empire and Osipenko. The Northerly was the first appearance at Group One level for Cosmic Crusader, who had risen through Perth’s ranks with wins in five of his seven previous starts dating back to October of 2024. His only defeats during that period were third placings in the Gr.3 Asian Beau Stakes (1400m) on November 1 and the Gr.3 R J Peters Stakes (1500m) on November 15. Those defeats meant the five-year-old was among the emergencies for the Gr.1 Railway Stakes (1600m) on November 22 and missed a start, but the emerging star confirmed his Northerly tilt with a dominant undercard victory in the Listed Carbine Club of WA Stakes (1400m). Ridden again on Saturday by his usual partner Clint Johnston-Porter, Cosmic Crusader settled in eighth among a strung-out field before swooping around the outside and pouncing at the top of the straight. Railway Stakes winner Watch Me Rock (Awesome Rock) went with him, and the pair drew more than four lengths clear of the rest of the field to fight out a desperate battle to the finish. Watch Me Rock briefly looked like he had the upper hand, but Cosmic Crusader lifted again and held him out. Racing in the cerise colours of his owner-breeder Bob Peters, Cosmic Crusader became the first Group One winner for trainer Michael Grantham and the second for Johnston-Porter. “I thought I was the one getting in his way,” Johnston-Porter said, referring to the two defeats last month. “I always thought he was a good horse and I was so gutted when he when he won the Carbine Club and I thought he should have won the Railway that day. So for me to get it right today is pretty special. “I just want to say my granddad passed away last night and it means a lot winning this. It really does. “Bob and Michael support me so much, and to get the job done is quite special. “I felt Watch Me Rock coming in the straight, but he just gritted his teeth. He just found something I didn’t know he had.” Cosmic Crusader has now had 16 starts for eight wins, four placings and A$1.23 million in stakes. “It’s really good to see,” Peters said. “It makes you wonder what might have happened in the Railway, but that’s the past and it’s very good to win this race. “He had an injury early on and I gave him 12 months off to get over it. I think that was the making of him, because, you know, he was a bit fine before, but he developed well and he’s a big strong horse now.” Cosmic Crusader is by Maurice out of the Street Sense mare Cosmic Storm, whose seven wins included the Group Three La Trice Classic (1800m) and three Listed races. Cosmic Storm is a half-sister to three stakes winners including the Gr.1 Cantala Stakes (1600m) winner Superstorm. While in New Zealand, Cosmic Storm was served by Windsor Park Stud stallion Charm Spirit. The resulting filly foal was named Cosmic Spirit and is also trained by Grantham. She has had three starts for two wins and a third. View the full article -
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Midnight Edition (NZ) (Wrote), who has genuine claims to the title of most improved galloper in the North Island this season, stepped up to a new level at Pukekohe when he claimed the Gr.3 Concorde Stakes (1200m) in emphatic fashion. The Bruce Wallbank-trained four-year-old had shown plenty of promise during his three-year-old campaign, including a dead-heat for first with Yaldi in the Gr.2 Auckland Guineas (1400m) only to be relegated to second in a post-race protest. He finished that season off with a victory at Te Rapa in April and then returned in style with a fresh-up win at the same venue in September, which has been followed by three successive placings, including two at stakes level. Bidding to get the stakes race monkey off his back on Saturday, the son of Wrote trounced a handy field courtesy of a copybook front-running ride from Matthew Cameron. Cameron took the initiative from the moment the starting gates opened, allowing Midnight Edition to stride to the front and set up a leisurely pace to suit themselves as the rest of the six runners allowed the pair to dictate terms. Cameron had a lapful of horse early in the run home and when he let the brakes off, Midnight Edition scooted away from his rivals and held out the late closing Master Fay (Deep Field) and Tardelli (I Am Invincible) to win by just under a length. Wallbank admitted he felt his charge had been a little unlucky when going down narrowly after ducking in sharply close to the winning post when finishing third in the Gr.3 Counties Bowl (1100m) at his last start. “He is a very good horse and last time he heard the band playing and shied inwards, otherwise we would have won that one too,” Wallbank said. “There was nothing the matter with him that day and he is really tough. “We had thought of going to the Telegraph (Gr.1, 1200m), but he is only a four-year-old so we are going to bypass it. “We will go to the open handicap on the 1st (of January) at Ellerslie and then to a mile at Te Rapa, as I think he can run a very good mile.” Bred by Aston Racing Ltd from the Wallbank family’s outstanding race mare Midnight Gossip (NZ), who won two of her six starts and finished fourth in the 2016 Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m), Midnight Edition is the younger sibling of the well-performed Midnight Mass (NZ) and Midnight Scandal (NZ). Saturday’s victory is the fifth of his 17-start career, where has now won more than $273,000 in prizemoney. View the full article -
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It was an anxious few moments for the connections of Provence (NZ) (Savabeel) as they waited to hear the judge’s call following the Gr.1 TAB Mufhasa Classic (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday, and they erupted when their mare’s name was called out first. In shades of the photo finish between Enzo’s Lad (Testa Rossa) and Ferrando (NZ) (Fast ‘N’ Famous) in the 2019 Gr.1 Telegraph (1200m) at the Upper Hutt track, there was a significant delay to the judge’s call as they studied the tight photo finish between Provence, Waitak (NZ) (Proisir) and La Crique (NZ) (Vadamos), with the former eventually getting the nod by a nose over Waitak. Trainer Stephen Marsh was up in Pukekohe overseeing his northern team, and he was left multi-tasking watching the aftermath on his phone while legging up a handful of riders on his quintet of horses in the last race. “I had my phone in one hand and the most horses I have ever had in a race,” he said. “We had five horses in the next (at Pukekohe) and all the jockeys were crowding around us to see if we had won. It was a hectic few minutes, but it made it very worthwhile. It was an awesome feeling to get the result. “I don’t know why it took so long. It was an anxious moment, but we certainly got the right result and I am absolutely over the moon.” Provence has made pleasing progression this preparation, finishing seventh in the Listed Legacy Lodge Sprint (1200m) under a big impost first-up before finishing runner-up to Qali Al Farrasha (NZ) (Almanzor) in the Gr.2 Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m), and went one better over her pet distance on Saturday. “I thought her first-up run in the handicap with 60 kilos was very good, I liked it, she just peaked on her run late,” Marsh said. “She was terrific second-up again and I thought she just needed the run again. Today she stripped a much better horse again. “Where her fitness is at, I think that was probably the winning of the race because she got held up a bit longer than she wanted to and sprinted well. She probably started to peak on her run a little bit late, but she was terrific. “What a great field it was. It was a brilliant race with Group One winners galore and she pulled out and won. It could have gone either way of three.” It was Provence’s third Group One win in a year, having previously won the Gr.1 Thorndon Mile (1600m) in January and Gr.1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) in March. “By Savabeel, they just keep getting better and better,” Marsh said. “Once they hit form and know how to win, they are bloody hard to beat. We need more of them.” The win capped a great end to a frustrating day for Marsh, with his stable placing in six races prior to the breakthrough win. “It was a really frustrating day,” Marsh said. “Jockeys were coming in apologising and didn’t get the right run, and a bad draw cost us. “It was one of those days where nothing seemed to be gelling at all, and it was getting frustrating, but to end it with a Group One is great, they are why we all do it.” Two of those placings came at stakes level at Pukekohe, with To Cap It All (Capitalist) runner-up in the Gr.3 Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) and Tardelli (I Am Incincible) third in the Gr.3 Concorde Stakes (1200m). “To Cap It All was great, she jogged up to them,” Marsh said. “I think we will bring her back to a sprint trip. You will probably see her on Karaka Millions night in a race like the Almanzor (Gr.3, 1200m). “We are definitely going to have a crack at the Telegraph (Gr.1, 1200m) with Tardelli. I think the big 1200m of Wellington will suit, he just probably got left a little bit flat-footed and probably peaked the last 100m today. He was still good to the line, it was a nice field, and I think that run will bring him on nicely.” Marsh has yet to decide the next steps for Provence, but said the ultimate aim is to defend her crown in the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes at Ellerslie on Champions Day. “I don’t want to step her up to 2000m, I don’t feel that she is a 2000m horse at all,” he said. “I think a mile is her pet distance. “We want to get her back to Ellerslie in March for the Breeders’. For the foreseeable future there is not a Group One to target her towards, but we will get her home and I will obviously have to talk with Tony (Rider, breeder and part-owner) and the team. “She doesn’t need to do too much more, she is a three-time Group One winner.” View the full article
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