No.1 - Tagaloa (Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) x Vasilissa (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}))
Trainer: Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young
Jockey: Michael Walker
Barrier: 6
The first 2-year-old with an entirely Japanese pedigree to win one of Australia's top 2-year-old races, this colt's tough win in the G1 Blue Diamond S. saw Yulong invest in him as a stallion prospect. Conceived in Japan and foaled in Australia at Arrowfield, this colt made an impression at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale, selling to his future trainers for $300,000.
Tagaloa as a yearling
His pedigree would suggest he should improve with age and distance, with his dam a winner over 1800 metres and her half-sister Tricolore Bleu (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}) a stakes winner as an older horse. His grand-dam Penkenna Princess (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) was a top-class 3-year-old filly who placed in a G1 Irish One Thousand Guineas. Vasilissa has a foal half-sister to this colt by Not A Single Doubt and visited The Autumn Sun last year.
No.2 - Hanseatic (Street Boss (USA) x Itameri (Exceed And Excel))
Trainer: Anthony Freedman
Jockey: Kerrin McEvoy
Barrier: 9
Hanseatic, runner-up to Tagaloa in the G1 Blue Diamond S., is a Godolphin homebred, with his dam Itameri belonging to one of the most influential sprinting families in Australia. Itameri is out of Baltics (Fusaichi Pegasus {USA}), who is a half-sister to stakes-winning sprinters Magnus (Flying Spur), Wilander (Exceed And Excel), Scandiva (Fastnet Rock) and Arctic Flight (Flying Spur) as well as Helsinge (Desert Sun {GB}), the dam of the superstar Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) and her Group 1 winning half-brother All Too Hard (Casino Prince).
Hanseatic
Itameri herself has produced one other winner, in Skagerrak (Dawn Approach {Ire}). She has a yearling Frosted (USA) filly and missed to Exosphere the following year. She visited that stallion again last year. Street Boss (USA) has had one previous Group 1 winner in Australia, Newmarket H. winner The Quarterback.
No.3 - Farnan (Not A Single Doubt x Tallow (Street Cry {Ire}))
Trainer: Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott
Jockey: Hugh Bowman
Barrier: 14
Farnan is aiming to become the first Group 1 winner bred by Phoenix Thoroughbreds, who purchased his dam Tallow for $250,000 through the 2017 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale in foal with this colt. Farnan was sold through the Vinery Stud draft for $550,000 to Aquis and back to Phoenix at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Farnan as a yearling
Tallow has already produced the Listed winner Sandbar (Snitzel) as well as the winner Summer Surf (Big Brown {USA}). She was a winner of the G3 Vanity S. and a half-sister to stakes-placed Mr Light Blue (Fantastic Light {USA}). She has missed to Snitzel and Sebring in the two years after having Farnan and visited The Autumn Sun last year.
No.4 - Prague (Redoute's Choice x Purely Spectacular (NZ) (Pins))
Trainer: Ciaron Maher and David Eustace
Jockey: Tom Marquand
Barrier: 7
Bred by GSA Bloodstock, Prague always loomed as a real target for the colts' syndicates at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, and sold there to Phoenix Thoroughbreds and Aquis for $1.6 million from Bhima Thoroughbreds' draft early on the first day. As a three-quarter brother to Group 1 winner and Widden Stud stallion Stratum Star, he boasted a top-notch pedigree and had the physical to match.
Prague as a yearling
In an odd coincidence, he became the second $1 million-plus yearling to be named Prague in Australia and has done a good job setting out his own reputation, with three wins to date, including Group 3 successes in the Canonbury S. and the Pago Pago S. The dam Purely Spectacular, a $300,000 buy for Dean Hawthorne on behalf of GSA in 2016, has produced five winners from five to the track, including Stratum Star and the stakes-placed Serenade (Star Witness), and having slipped twice to Snitzel, returned to that stallion last year. It's a family that goes back to the fourth dam, the blue hen and Champion Emancipation (Bletchingly).
No.5 - King's Legacy (Redoute's Choice x Breakfast In Bed (Hussonet {USA}))
Trainer: Peter and Paul Snowden
Jockey: Damian Lane
Barrier: 2
Another million-dollar Redoute's Choice colt, King's Legacy was picked out by renowned judge James Harron at the same Gold Coast Sale for $1.4 million from the draft of Segenhoe Stud, who bred this colt. He is the second foal from Breakfast In Bed, who has also produced the winner Do Not Disturb (Fastnet Rock). She was multiple stakes-placed in her racing days and is a half-sister to Group 1 winning filly Oohood (I Am Invincible).
King's Legacy as a yearling
That is of course the family of now retired Arrowfield stallion Not A Single Doubt, who being also by Redoute's Choice, is a close relative to this colt, and another influential stallion in Snippets. Already a Group 3 winner, King's Legacy looms as a real stallion prospect in his own right.
Breakfast In Bed had an I Am Invincible filly herself last year, to follow up from a full-sister to King's Legacy, while she visited Pierro last year.
No.6 - Global Quest - Scratched
No.7 - Mamaragan (Wandjina x Forbidden (General Nediym))
Trainer: John Thompson
Jockey: Nash Rawiller
Barrier: 1
Bred by Wilf Mula's Aston Bloodstock and raced in the same interests, Mamaragan was sold through the Newgate draft at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale to trainer John Thompson for $180,000. He goes into the race as the least experienced runner with just one start, a win in the G2 Skyline S. last month.
Mamaragan as a yearling
His dam, Forbidden, has produced two other winners and is a half-sister to Group 2 winner Son Of Maher (Al Maher) and Listed winner Dance With Her (Al Maher) out of the multiple stakes-winner Dance Hit (NZ) (Tights {USA}). Forbidden cost Aston Bloodstock $65,000 in foal with this colt in 2017 and had a Foxwedge filly last year before visiting Flying Artie.
No. 8 - Away Game (Snitzel x Elusive Wonder (Elusive Quality {USA}) )
Trainer: Ciaron Maher and David Eustace
Jockey: Glen Boss
Barrier: 3
Former Maher Racing employee Hannah Mathiesen's first serious foray into buying yearlings in Australia has proven a spectacular success with Away Game having won the $2 million R. Listed Magic Millions 2YO Classic in January. She picked out the Snitzel filly from Mill Park's draft on the Gold Coast with the help of agent Kerri Radcliffe for $425,000.
Away Game as a yearling
This filly was also bred by Mill Park and is a sister to juvenile stakes-winner Modern Wonder and one of five winners from Elusive Wonder, who was stakes placed herself as a 2-year-old and comes from a family which goes back to her granddam, Freedom Fields (Bluebird {USA}) who won a Blue Diamond Prelude. Group 1 winner Inference (So You Think {NZ}) also descends from that mare.
Elusive Wonder, now at Segenhoe, had her yearling filly by Not A Single Doubt fetch $580,000 to Aquis at this year's Gold Coast Sale, while she also has a Merchant Navy foal filly and a went back to the Coolmore stallion again.
No. 9 - Dame Giselle (I Am Invincible x Ballet Society (NZ) (Stravinsky {USA}))
Trainer: Peter and Paul Snowden
Jockey: Tim Clark
Barrier: 4
Dame Giselle is out of quality mare Ballet Society (NZ), who won six races, four of them at Group level, and was placed in a G1 Thousand Guineas. China Horse Club purchased her in foal with this filly for $350,000 in 2017 and offered the filly through the Sledmere Stud draft at last year's Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, where she fetched $500,000 to Go Bloodstock. She has won two of her four starts to date, including a win in the G2 Reisling S. last time out.
Dame Giselle as a yearling
She is the only stakes winner yet for Ballet Society, who has had six winners from her six foals to the track, including the stakes-placed The Fairy's Kiss (Elusive Quality {USA}), a stakes-producer herself with Steal My Kisses (I Am Invincible). Ballet Society had a Pride Of Dubai colt last year and then visited I Am Invincible looking for a full sibling to this filly.
No.10 - See You Soon (Siyouni (Fr) x Soneva (USA) (Cherokee Run {USA}))
Trainer: Jean Dubois
Jockey: Jean Van Overmeire
Barrier: 8
As one of a few select runners in Australia by Siyouni (Fr), this filly was always going to attract attention even before she won on debut, beating Dame Giselle, who would relegate her to second in their next two starts. She was bred by Woodpark Stud, which is managed by her trainer Jean Dubois on behalf of David Chaikin.
See You Soon (blue silks)
The dam, Soneva (USA), arrived in Australia in foal with See You Soon, but before that had produced the prolific Qatari winner The Blue Eye (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), as well as Julian Rock (Fr) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), who has won in Australia as well. There are a host of international stakes winners in the extended family, but also New Zealand Group 1 winners King's Rose (NZ) (Redoute's Choice) and Anabandana (NZ) (Anabaa {USA}). Soneva had a Fastnet Rock filly last year before visiting Trapeze Artist.
No. 11 - Mildred (Hinchinbrook x Tempest Tost (Statue Of Liberty {USA}))
Trainer: Grahame Begg
Jockey: Jordan Childs
Barrier: 17
Astute judge Neville Begg paid just $45,000 for Mildred at the Inglis Classic Sale, which given she has already won $280,000 and two stakes races has proven a very savvy investment. She is out of the Listed Magic Millions 3YO winner Tempest Tost, who has produced four winners to the track, and has Deep Field yearling colt and Invader foal colt to come.
Mildred as a yearling
Tempest Tost, who visited Written Tycoon last year, is a half-sister to Group 1 winning sprinter Notoire (Export Price {Fr}) as well as Listed winner Well Known (The Pug {GB}) and stakes-placed duo Tullamarine (Encosta De Lago) and Livigno (Churchill Downs).
No.12 - Personal (Fastnet Rock x Personify (Galileo {Ire}))
Trainer: David Hayes, Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig
Jockey: Craig Williams
Barrier: 19
Coolmore had a high enough opinion of Personal as a yearling and a potential broodmare that it paid $640,000 for her from the Cressfield draft at last year's Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. Her dam Personify was a stakes winner and has already produced a trio of stakes performers in Laser Flash (Redoute's Choice), Selectify (Redoute's Choice) and Trope (More Than Ready {USA}).
Personal as a yearling
That's a family with a rich vein of black-type winners, with the grand-dam, the Group 2 winner Procrastinate (Jade Hunter {USA}), having produced five stakes winners, headed by the Group 1 winner Laisserfaire (Danehill {USA}) and Group 1 producing stallion Time Thief. Personify wasn't served in 2017 and 2018 and was tried with a trio of stallions last year, More Than Ready (USA), Fastnet Rock and All Too Hard.
No. 13 - Muntaseera (I Am Invincible x Moosirra (Redoute's Choice))
Trainer: Ciaron Maher and David Eustace
Jockey: Michael Dee
Barrier: 18
This filly was bred and raced by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum and hails from a family which has proven very successful for her owners. Both of the foals from Moosira, this filly and Maisaa (Zoffany {Ire}) have been winners. Moosira's dam Dizzy De Lago (Encosta De Lago), stakes placed as a 2-year-old herself, has produced UAE's champion miler Musir (Redoute's Choice) and South African stakes-winners Merhee (Elusive Quality {USA}) and Moofeed (Duke Of Marmalade {Ire}).
Moosira's breeding record since Muntaseera has seen her produce a filly by her owner's Blue Diamond winning stallion Pride Of Dubai, while she visited I Am Invincible last spring.
No. 14 - Hungry Heart (Frankel (GB) x Harlech (GB) (Pivotal {GB}))
Trainer: Chris Waller
Jockey: James McDonald
Barrier: 5
Hungry Heart is the third horse the Golden Slipper field who was conceived overseas and foaled in Australia. Yulong purchased her dam Harlech for £60,000 (AU$124,000) at the Tattersalls July Sale and put her in foal to unbeaten superstar Frankel, on Southern Hemisphere time before sending her to Australia. Yulong then offered her filly through the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale where she fetched $300,000 to Belmont Bloodstock as part of a buy back on behalf of Yueshang Zhang's wife.
Hungry Heart as a yearling
Harlech has had a Snitzel colt and a Snitzel filly in subsequent years. She only raced once herself and is a daughter of Listed winner Zoowraa (GB) (Azamour {Ire}). In fact the next four dams in the line back from Zoowraa were all stakes winners in either the UK or the USA. She becomes the first 2-year-old by Frankel to run in the Golden Slipper and her win in the G2 Sweet Embrace S. saw her become his third stakes winner in Australia.
No.15 Cellsabeel - Scratched
No.16 - Thermosphere (Exosphere x Glows (Canny Lad))
Trainer: James Cummings
Jockey: Tommy Berry
Barrier: 10
Thermosphere is the only runner by a first-season stallion in the race, having been the first winner for his sire Exosphere when she was successful at Newcastle last month. The Godolphin homebred subsequently won the G3 Magic Night S. to give her sire his first stakes winner.
Thermosphere
Her dam, Glows hails from a strong old Woodlands Stud family. She won a Listed Typhoon Tracy Plate and is one of six winners from Lustre (Quest For Fame {GB}), the half-sister to Group 3 winner Falaise (Grand Lodge {USA}), and three-quarter sister to Listed winner Pearly Kings (Quest For Fame {GB}). Thermosphere has a full brother who is a yearling and half-brother by Pierro, who is a foal, while Glows returned to Exosphere in 2019.
No.17 - Rathlin (Fastnet Rock x Wiener (More Than Ready {USA}))
Trainer: Ciaron Maher and David Eustace
Jockey: Mark Zahra
Barrier: 20
Rathlin, one of five runners for his trainers in this race, carries some of terrific bloodlines, being a son of Fastnet Rock out of a half-sister to star stallions Snitzel and Hinchinbrook in Wiener (More Than Ready {USA}). From a pedigree perspective, in an old bloodstock cliché, he ticks all the boxes. Little surprise then that he cost Aquis $725,000 at last year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale.
Rathlin as a yearling
Rathlin became Wiener's first stakes winner when he won the Listed Phelan Ready S. in December, while two of her other foals, Redoubtable Heart (Redoute's Choice) and Za Zi Ba (All Too Hard) have been stakes placed. He was bred by Neil Werrett and was raised and sold by Kitchwin Hills.
No.18 - Minhaaj (Exceed And Excel x Telaawa (Lonhro) )
Trainer: David Hayes, Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig
Jockey: Daniel Stackhouse
Barrier: 13
Bred and raced by Shadwell Stud, Minhaaj has made rapid progress through a Bendigo maiden and then to a G3 Thoroughbred Breeders S. to sneak into the Golden Slipper field at start number three. She is the first foal from Telaawa, who won one of her eight starts, having been purchased for $180,000 as a yearling by Shadwell from Yarraman Park back in 2013.
Minhaaj
Telaawa is a half-sister to Group 3 winning pair Charmed Harmony (Hussonet {USA}) and Suyoof (Magic Albert), out of the stakes-placed mare Magic Harmony (Danehill Dancer {Ire}). That extended family has already produced a Golden Slipper winner in Overreach (Exceed And Excel), a blood sister to this filly, and a Blue Diamond S. winner in Reward For Effort (Exceed And Excel). Minhaaj has a weanling full sister.
