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Invincibella breaks through for her maiden Group One victory in the final of the season. TRACKSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY PREVIEW Group 1 racing takes a breather as Aus season draws to a close

Australian Group One In a season where he farewelled in 2019-20 will be run at Randwick on Winx, Waller stood tall as Australia’s August 24 and appropriately it will be action is in hiatus as foremost Group One trainer. the Winx Stakes, a weight-for-age race our stars of the turf He trained 18 elite-level winners she won last year. prepare for a new with seven of those victories belonging Australia’s new season of racing to Winx, the world’s best racehorse who starts on August 1, our horse’s birthday, season of racing. is still creating headlines despite her while the breeding season opens on retirement in April. September 1. nvincibella’s win in the Tattersall’s Winx will embark on the next Stakes racing continues around the Tiara at Eagle Farm last week for chapter of her career when she will country on Saturday with Group Three trainer Chris Waller was the last of visit Yarraman Park poster boy I Am contests the main focus in Perth and I72 Group One races contested across the Invincible in the spring. the Sunshine Coast in Queensland as a nation in 2018-19. Australia’s first Group One event finale to the winter carnival.

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Galaxy Star’s fate will be determined in the Group Three Strickland Stakes. WESTERN RACEPIX

One of the premier among Australia’s most prolific after Group One trophy. Galaxy Star thoroughbred breeders. They have and Great Shot have raced exclusively mares in Western been racing horses for more than four in Perth but in yet another example Australia will face a decades and are constantly upgrading of the healthy state of the Australian crossroads race at their bloodstock portfolio as they access thoroughbred industry, they have the best stallions in the east. amassed almost $3 million in stakes Belmont on Saturday The Strickland Stakes continues between them. as she tries to rebound a sequence of winter weight-for-age Their last-start conqueror Gatting from a surprise defeat. races in Perth. (Hard Spun) also falls into the same While nowhere near as lucrative category but that could change as spring as Perth racing’s summer scene which carnivals loom in the nation’s eastern alaxy Star (Redoute’s Choice) attracts interstate stables, this time of states. is favourite to hit back in the year in the WA capital still has the best Gatting, who relegated Galaxy Star Group Three Strickland Stakes on offer from the locals. and Great Shot into the minor placings Gbut she needs to win handsomely to Galaxy Star is a Group One winner, in the Group Three Hyperion Stakes earn another season of racing. as is her Strickland rival Great Shot over 1600m a fortnight ago, has been Otherwise, the breeding barn awaits (Magnus). mentioned as a WS Cox Plate runner. where she can add even more depth They have taken out the past two The five-year-old ran third in last to owner Bob Peters’ collection of editions of the Railway Stakes, a $1 year’s Strickland but is going better broodmares. million race over 1600m that has stood now and he will be right at home over Peters and his wife Sandra rate the test of time as Perth’s most sought- 2000m.

SHARE THIS EDITION 2 aushorse.com.au DOWN UNDER DELIVERED THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2019 Sunshine Coast hosts a winter finale for premium Queensland racing The Sunshine Coast Turf Club will stage its biggest meeting for the season as Queensland winter racing heads out of town this week.

orbould Park is one of the state’s busiest racetracks as a regular Sunday venue and it’s also one of Cthe newest. An expansive racetrack located about 90km north of Brisbane, Corbould Park was built in 1985. It is also home to Queensland’s only synthetic track, installed in 2008. Three stakes races will be decided on Saturday with the Sunshine Coast Guineas carrying the most prestige as a Group Three contest. Run at set weights over 1400m, the Guineas will forever occupy a place in Australian racing history thanks to the champion racemare Winx (Street Cry). Sunshine Coast Turf Club. Winx won the 2015 edition, the first in her sequence of 33 wins that took an insight into his potential in his 2018 Baby was runner-up in the Group Two her all the way to the top of the world victory. Queensland Guineas and rates as one of rankings. Baccarat Baby (Casino Prince) is the state’s best three-year-old fillies. The Bostonian (Jimmy Choux), one among the favourites despite finishing The Caloundra Cup and the of the stars of this year’s winter carnival down the course in last week’s Group Glasshouse Handicap will also be with Group One wins in the Doomben One Tattersall’s Tiara. highlight races, each offering $175,000 10,000 and Kingsford Smith Cup, gave Trained on the track, Baccarat purses at Listed level.

Cummings pair chase more success for Godolphin yard James Cummings will (Street Cry) are vying for favouritism after figuring in minor races in Brisbane recall at least one over the past month. sprinter from Brisbane Cummings also kept Organza in winter carnival duties entries for the Glasshouse Handicap, the main sprint race at the Sunshine Coast to chase an off-season on Saturday. black-type win in Organza is fresh from finishing Sydney. second in the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic at Ipswich after conceding the he Godolphin trainer has accepted winner too much start. with two runners for the Civic Gaulios also competed on Ipswich Stakes, a $150,000 Listed race over Cup day, running midfield in the Listed T1350m at Rosehill on Saturday. Eye Liner Stakes after racing rearward James Cummings. RACING PHOTOS Organza (Street Cry) and Gaulios from a deep barrier.

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Gytrash and Craig Williams cruise to victory in the Listed AR Creswick Stakes. RACING PHOTOS

‘day off’ at the 2017 Inglis “I ended up getting “The colt wasn’t due to go into the Melbourne Premier Yearling the horse for $40,000 ring until the Tuesday but I asked a Sale has well and truly paid mate to bid on him up to $50,000. I dividendsA for Adelaide trainer, Gordon but when I found out ended up getting the horse for $40,000 Richards, with nippy 3YO, Gytrash, he’d been sold for but when I found out he’d been sold producing a commanding performance for $70,000 as a weanling, I got a bit in Saturday’s Listed AR Creswick Stakes $70,000 as a worried.” at Flemington. weanling, I got a Clearly his concerns were misplaced It was the second win in a row down bit worried.” as Gytrash takes his earnings to the Flemington straight for Gytrash, but $405,450 following Saturday’s victory the first at stakes level and the Lope de GORDON RICHARDS, TRAINER with the promise of much more to Vega flyer takes his career tally to six come. wins and six placings from 13 outings: “I had won the (Group Three) Training for over 40 years with 20 the only blemish a 10th in last month’s Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield on the in work at his Morphettville base, the Group One Goodwood Handicap after Saturday with Benz and, as I didn’t need laidback Richards adds Gytrash wasn’t a being in the car park for most of the trip. to be back in Adelaide until the Monday, ‘hard sell’. Wending his happy way home to I decided to head out to the Premier “Gone are the days when people South Australia on Sunday morning sale,” Richard recalls. “I wasn’t actually come up to you with a bunch of orders with horse float attached, a buoyant planning on buying anything, but I to buy horses at sales, but my wife put Richards was counting his blessings noticed this colt being the yearling photo up on Facebook and that he’d decided to venture out to paraded by Maluka Thoroughbreds a I even got a new client – a lady from Inglis’ Oaklands Junction complex two couple of times and then I had him Sydney – who took a share,” Richards years ago. pulled out myself for a decent look. reveals. “There was a lot of interest

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actually and quite a few existing clients took shares too. Still, I was left with 10% which I had to fill, but I’m hardly complaining.” But what about the name? Gytrash (pronounced ‘gee-trah’)? “One of my owners is Gary McIntosh who, back in the day, was a very good footy player for Norwood. A real character,” Richards explains. “He’s in Benz as well and, given that horse is by Bushranger, Gary wanted to name him Mad Dog Morgan or something like that. “Anyway, when the Lope de Vega came along he suggested Gytrash and, just to get him off my back, I said yes. I then looked the name up on google and turns out it’s some ghost dog that can take the shape of a horse and either leads people astray or puts you on the right road. What’s his thing with the bloody dogs? Well, at least we’re on the Adelaide-based trainer, Gordon Richards. RACING PHOTOS right road with this one.” Richards has saddled up a number “It might not “It might not have worked out with of good horses in his career including Gytrash, but ‘pinhooking’ is such a 2002 Great Eastern Steeple winner have worked out viable option these days for investors,” Ballata (“we had a lot of fun with him”), with Gytrash, but Anderson enthused. “When purchasing Group winners Vargna and Benz, and is ‘pinhooking’ is weanlings, the main aim for Mags and confident Gytrash will go on with the I is to identify the athlete. We focus on job. such a viable option the way they move and their general “He (Gytrash) will head for a spell these days for athleticism. and come back for the spring,” Richards “To ensure we acquire the top adds. “Nothing specific in mind but investors..” end weanlings, we sometimes buy in he keeps improving with every run so LUKE ANDERSON, partnership and last year we purchased, there should be quite a few options for MALUKA THOROUGHBREDS with Milawa Park, a Zoustar colt for him as a 4YO. $230,000 at the Magic Millions National “I knew he could be something “Look, it was just one of those Weanling Sale. Nine months later he special after his first couple of starts things. Gytrash was purchased as ended up the most expensive Zoustar in Adelaide, but when I took him to a weanling for $70,000 at the Great at the 2019 Inglis Melbourne Premier Melbourne for the first time and he ran Southern by one of our clients but he Yearling Sale when knocked down for a neck second to Blue Diamond winner, was a bit offset and didn’t come on as $500,000. He was purchased by Orbis Written By, that sealed it for me. planned,” Anderson points out. “Plus, Bloodstock and I understand he’s doing “He had to have a bone chip he had moderate x-ray issues but very well.” removed and he was out until April, but there was nothing too much wrong This year, Maluka Thoroughbreds has won four from the last six. physically … big, strong bugger. Let’s was the leading buyer at the recent “(Jockey) Craig Williams has a big put it this way – he looked very good on Inglis Great Southern Wealing Sale, opinion of Gytrash and, with a lot of Saturday!” which included a Zoustar filly for good horses heading up to Sydney for Based at Kilmore in Victoria, $200,000 that was secured in tandem the major spring sprints, we might be Anderson established Maluka with Kilgravin Lodge. able to avoid some of the better ones … Thoroughbreds in 2016 with wife, Mags, “We like to team up with like then again, might be some of the better who was Cambridge Stud’s yearling minded people,” Anderson adds. ones will choose to avoid us,” Richards manager for 10 years. Aside from Gytrash, Maluka has sums up with a laugh. Similarly, Anderson has had had an exceptional year with six of its Despite the result at Melbourne a lifetime involvement with ‘graduates’ either black type winners Premier not going to plan, Maluka thoroughbreds, growing up “next to or stakes placed and, for the first time, Thoroughbreds’ Luke Anderson was Moonee Valley racecourse” and the the farm will offer its 2020 yearlings happy for Team Gytrash and hopes brother of popular media commentator, exclusively at the Inglis Melbourne they’ll come back for more. Shane Anderson. Premier Yearling Sale.

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Chris Waller has topped the legendary TJ Smith’s Group One winning record. RACING PHOTOS

Chris Waller stands alone as the last Group One for the Australian race until he gave Invincibella a dream as the trainer with the season. run after sitting with cover in the three- It was Waller’s first Group One wide running line. most Group One wins victory of the Queensland winter Like Waller, Collett is of New in an Australian racing carnival and his first at that level since Zealand heritage and he has been an season after Invincibella Winx (Street Cry) bowed out of racing integral part of the trainer’s Sydney in winning the Queen Elizabeth Stakes stable since moving permanently to claimed the $500,000 at Randwick in April. Australia in 2012. Tattersall’s Tiara at Eagle Invincibella, raced by Denise The 28-year-old occupies a special Farm. Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds, is the place in Australian racing history as the eighth Group One winner for her sire. first jockey to win on Winx. nvincibella (I Am Invincible) gave Waller missed his history-making He rode Winx in her first start when, Waller his 18th Group One success moment but he had a legitimate excuse. as a late-season two-year-old, she in 2018-19 to break a record he The master trainer and his wife scored in modest company at a Sydney Ishared with legendary trainer Tommy Stephanie joined the pomp and midweek meeting. Smith. ceremony of Royal Ascot as part of the Collett rode Winx another four times In a nail-biting finish, Invincibella royal procession on the final day. but his association with the great mare held off Godolphin filly Pohutukawa While the Tiara will be milestone ended after they were unplaced in a (Medaglia D’Oro). race in Waller’s career, it also promises Group Two race during the 2015 Sydney The runner-up’s stablemate to be a turning point for jockey Jason autumn carnival. Savatiano (Street Cry) took the minor Collett. The Tiara was the last of 72 Group placing as favourite in the fillies and Collett had carried the tag of the best One races run in Australia between mares weight-for-age race that doubles rider in Australia not to win a Group One August 1 and July 31.

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Glen Boss is confident Vow And Declare can go the distance. TRACKSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY

As a three-time away with the Group Three Tattersall’s Melbourne by Danny O’Brien, a trainer Melbourne Cup-winning Cup over 3000m at Eagle Farm. skilled in conditioning the staying breed. Boss, who rode Makybe Diva (Desert O’Brien trained Master O’Reilly jockey, Glen Boss is better King) to three straight Melbourne Cup (O’Reilly) to win the 2007 Caulfield Cup qualified than most when wins, says Vow And Declare has the as well as two fourth placings in the assessing the prospects of stamina to reach greater heights. Melbourne Cup. In a race where the speed increased He has been patient with Vow And an emerging stayer. through the middle stages thanks to Declare, the gelding having his 10th visit two horses keeping each company at to the races for his third win in a record hat’s why his opinion of Vow the front, Vow And Declare put away his that also includes a runner-up finish in And Declare (Declaration Of War) rivals in a no-nonsense manner. the Queensland Derby. should be heeded as the three- He extended his margin to 3-1/2 The Cup result should auger well Tyear-old heads into the spring as a lengths at the winning post, beating the for the Queensland Derby form to be a chance in Australia’s major Cup races. accomplished stayer Big Duke (Raven’s strong reference next season with Vow Taking on a bunch of older and far Pass), albeit with a 6kg pull in the And Declare’s conqueror Mr Quickie more seasoned stayers at stakes level for weights. (Shamus Award) also earmarked for a the first time, Vow And Declare romped Vow And Declare is prepared out of profitable spring.

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hinn has been the dominant jockey in Queensland since basing himself in Brisbane from late SApril. He will return to Sydney to prepare for the new Hong Kong season where he has landed a six-month contract. Shinn went within a photo-finish of winning the Tiara on Pohutukawa (Medaglia D’Oro) but gained a consolation stakes win on Brave Song in the principal sprint race at the Group One meeting. He brought the Sydney-trained Brave Song (Your Song) with a well- timed run to win the WJ Healy Stakes over 1200m at Group Three level. It was a welcome win for the Brave Song. TRACKSIDE PHOTOGRAPHY sprinter after three successive runner- up placings in a new campaign. He hails from the same yard run in to attempt a third win in . Brave Song has links to Redzel by Peter and Paul Snowden and is yet Yulong Australia’s Zhang Yuesheng (Snitzel), one of Australia’s best another success story for the syndicator confirmed this week that Redzel will sprinters with $15.5 million in career Triple Crown. represent his slot for the second year in earnings. Redzel, meanwhile, has been locked a row. Mystery Miss stars in Perth Listed win Winter racing in Perth The three-year-old is raced by continues to provide a Western Australia’s biggest owners Bob and Sandra Peters and is trained by valuable insight into what Grant and Alana Williams. might unfold next season On her maternal side, Mystery Miss’ with richly bred filly pedigree is an enviable one as a grand- daughter of the VRC Oaks and Thousand Mystery Miss winning the Guineas winner Magical Miss (). Belmont Guineas. Mystery Miss’ early-season racing was cut short because of a twisted ystery Miss (Animal small intestine but she is well on Kingdom) completed a the way towards making up for lost remarkable comeback from opportunities. Ma life-threatening complaint to claim She will be given a chance to expand the Listed race over 1600m under jockey on her winter record with starts in the Mystery Miss. WESTERN RACEPIX William Pike. Belmont Oaks and Belmont Classic.

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