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DOWN UNDER DELIVERED YOUR BITE-SIZED BULLETIN FROM OZ THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 2012 Golden Slipper winner Pierro who now stands at Coolmore Stud. PREVIEW Golden Slipper leaves lasting legacy on Australian thoroughbred industry Few races can match at Rosehill on Saturday. But for a select starting with the inaugural winner few there will be more than the $3.5 Todman (Star Kingdom) in 1957. the Golden Slipper for million in prizemoney at stake. The Slipper meeting has grown in the impact it has on the Should one of the six colts come out importance over the past decade and it greater thoroughbred on top, their value will soar well beyond ranks among the best days Australian anything they will be able to win on the racing can offer with five Group One industry. racetrack. races. For more than 50 years, the Golden And having Winx on the undercard ixteen of the fastest two-year- Slipper has typified Sydney racing while will only add to the theatre when she olds in Australia, all trained to shaping the future of our breeding tries to win the Group One George Ryder the minute, will chase the richest industry. Its honour roll is a celebration Stakes for the fourth time as the end of Sjuvenile purse in the world over 1200m of Australia’s fascination with speed, her racing career draws closer. SHARE THIS EDITION 1 aushorse.com.au DOWN UNDER DELIVERED THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 Golden Slipper a test of strength as well as speed for star 2YOs Microphone fights off Cosmic Force to win the Skyline Stakes. LISA GRIMM Out-and-out speed is one of the wettest Slippers on record. in Australian racing. An inside gate has unlikely to be the only Since 2007, the Golden Slipper has been further enhanced Cosmic Force’s claims worth $3.5 million. in the eyes of bookmakers. prerequisite to win this When it was held under the auspices Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, year’s Golden Slipper. of the now defunct Sydney Turf Club, Cosmic Force has been favourite for it figured in a prizemoney war of sorts most of the week since Tuesday’s nchallenged as the world’s with the Melbourne Cup. barrier draw ahead of the Godolphin richest race for two-year- The fact the race’s purse hasn’t pair Microphone (Exceed And Excel) and olds and the most influential been lifted for 12 years has in no way Tenley (Medaglia D’Oro). Uon Australia’s breeding industry, the diminished its importance and the best Microphone defeated Cosmic Force Golden Slipper seems certain to be run 16 juveniles in training will take their at their only clash in the Group Two on a rain-affected track. place in Saturday’s field. Skyline Stakes but that victory came on And with that prospect of soft Fillies will outnumber the colts by a a firm surface. ground will come a survival-of-the- ratio of almost 2:1 and Godolphin runners Tenley accounted for her Magic fittest showdown, ensuring the fastest make up almost half of the field. Millions-winning stablemate Exhilarates will be vulnerable to the strongest. But it is a youngster from outside the (Snitzel) in the Group Two Reisling Golden Slippers decided on testing aforementioned demographics that has Stakes to stay unbeaten in three starts. surfaces are commonplace in a race that captured most attention since the final Chris Waller’s chances of a first is run over 1200m at Rosehill and is a qualifying races were run last week. Golden Slipper win suffered a setback at signature event of the Sydney calendar. In the space of a few days, Cosmic the barrier draw. The most recent wet-track triumph Force (Deep Field) has gone from Yes Yes Yes (Rubick), the colt who belongs to She Will Reign (Manhattan outsider to the horse to beat after arrived at his stable after starting out Rain) who kept saving ground along the storming his way into the field with one with disqualified trainer Darren Weir, inside after landing closer to last than of the easiest lead-in wins in the Group will start from the extreme outside. first. Three Pago Pago Stakes. Such is the importance placed on Her win revived memories of the 2009 Significantly, the second victory of Golden Slipper barriers, Yes Yes Yes lost edition when Phelan Ready (More Than the colt’s four-start career came on a his place as favourite and he is now on Ready) won in similar circumstances in surface with a rating that is the heaviest the third tier of most betting markets. SHARE THIS EDITION 2 aushorse.com.au DOWN UNDER DELIVERED THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 Winx set to farewell Rosehill in $1m George Ryder Stakes Winx after winning the 2018 George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill. LISA GRIMM Winx will have up to eight Group One Queen Elizabeth Stakes at They are stable newcomers Prompt rivals when she races at Randwick on April 13. Response (Beneteau) and Ringadingding As always, Winx is a prohibitive (Sebring) and Group One winner Egg her home track for the favourite to extend her winning Tart (Sebring). final time on the Golden sequence to 32 victories and post her The horse rated closest to Winx Slipper undercard. 36th overall win from 42 starts. in first markets is Land Of Plenty Her world record mark for Group (Stratum), the former Darren Weir- One wins will stretch to 24, a string that trained sprinter-miler who is having his hasing her fourth successive win started with her breakthrough in the first start for Peter and Paul Snowden. in the Group One George Ryder 2015 Queensland Oaks. Under Weir’s training, Land Stakes, Winx (Street Cry) will be Trainer Chris Waller accepted Of Plenty won the Group One Cmaking a farewell to Rosehill in the $1 with three stablemates to keep Winx Toorak Handicap during last year’s million weight-for-age race. company in the race named for the man spring carnival, claiming the scalp It comes three weeks before her behind the introduction of the Golden of Godolphin stalwart Hartnell planned swansong race in the $4 million Slipper. (Authorized). SHARE THIS EDITION 3 aushorse.com.au DOWN UNDER DELIVERED THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 Everest winner headlines Group One Galaxy field Dual Everest winner Redzel. LISA GRIMM The principal race for since becoming one of the country’s two years ago when beaten by now- sprinters on Golden benchmark sprinters. retired stablemate Russian Revolution. The two-time Everest winner with It would turn out to be Redzel’s last Slipper day has received almost $15.5 million in earnings has defeat in 2017 as he compiled a sequence a boost with Redzel a 59.5kg on a 51kg limit in the $700,000 of wins that encompassed the inaugural race over 1100m. $10 million Everest. confirmed starter in the Trainers Peter and Paul Snowden Ball Of Muscle (Dubawi) stole the Group One Galaxy. have decided to keep Redzel in Sydney spotlight from Redzel in the Group instead of sending their stable star to Two Challenge Stakes and the Joe he Galaxy will mark Redzel’s Melbourne for the Group One William Pride-trained veteran will be trying to (Snitzel) return to handicap Reid Stakes. emulate his full brother Tiger Tees as a T racing for the first time Redzel finished second in the Galaxy Galaxy winner. Rosehill Guineas at mercy of top colt Valuable colt The Autumn Caulfield Guineas and the Randwick Sun will be a pronounced Guineas. His last-start Randwick Guineas favourite to add the Rosehill victory rates up with the best wins of Guineas to his growing tally the Australian season after giving the of Group One wins. leaders an almighty start. New Zealand-trained Madison he Autumn Sun (Redoute’s County (Pins) finished fourth in the Choice) hasn’t been beaten in a Randwick Guineas and the likelihood Group One race and that record is of a wet track will be in his favour at Texpected to be enhanced over a middle Rosehill. distance on Saturday. Three of Madison County’s four wins In four appearances at racing’s in New Zealand have been on soft going, highest level, The Autumn Sun has including an easy NZ 2000 Guineas win The Autumn Sun. CREDIT won the JJ Atkins, the Golden Rose, the over 1600m. SHARE THIS EDITION 4 aushorse.com.au DOWN UNDER DELIVERED THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019 Unforgotten poised for her own slice of Group 1 glory A training partner for Winx is every chance of joining her famous stablemate as a Group One winner on Golden Slipper day. nforgotten (Fastnet Rock) will be among the favourites for the Group One Ranvet Stakes, a Uweight-for-age race run over 2000m. The-four-year-old goes into the Ranvet after a last-start minor placing to Winx in the Group One Chipping Norton Stakes. She will present third-up from a spell and the fact she was pitted against Winx (Street Cry) in a track gallop this week says a lot about the stable’s confidence. As a bonus, Unforgotten will be ridden by Winx’s jockey Hugh Bowman. Bowman, fresh from winning the Group One Hong Kong Derby, has an unblemished record after two rides on the four-year-old. He teamed up with Unforgotten for the first time to win last season’s Group One ATC Australian Oaks. They were reunited during the spring carnival and duly landed the Group Two Chelmsford Stakes, a time- honoured weight-for-age race.