Looking Ahead puts the spotlight on runners of interest across Australia and New Zealand. Whether they are a particularly well-bred or high-priced runner having their first or second start, a promising galloper returning to the track or a horse which has trialled particularly well, we’ll aim to give you something to follow.
We go racing at Bendigo on Tuesday, where a homebred Godolphin filly with a nice pedigree debuts for James Cummings, before a half-sister to a dual Listed winner steps out for Greg Eurell.
Bendigo, Race 1, 1.30pm AEDT, Catanach's Jewellers 3YO Mdn Plate, $27,000, 1000m
Effeminate, 3-year-old filly (Street Boss {USA} x Wistful {Tiger Hill {Ire}})
This filly is a homebred for Godolphin.
The James Cummings-trained Effeminate is from a four-time winner who was placed in Group 3 grade. A half-sister to the two-time winner and Group 3 placegetter Asinara (Teofilo {Ire}), Wistful is the dam of five foals, and of those, three have raced for two winners.
Street Boss (USA) | Standing at Darley
Stakes winners on the filly’s page include Any Limit (USA) (Limit Out {USA}), Insolito (USA) (Storm Boot {USA}) and In Conference (USA) (Dayjur {USA}).
Effeminate has had three trials, and on October 23 at Warwick Farm, he finished third in a field of five.
The filly debuts in the hands of Fred Kersley.
Bendigo, Race 3, 2.30pm AEDT, Bendigo MG Mdn Plate, $27,000, 1300m
Cleopatra Link (NZ), 3-year-old filly (Almanzor {Fr} x Sarvon {Zabeel {NZ}})
Greg Eurell paid $120,000 for this Bob Emery-bred filly from the Woburn Farm draft at the 2022 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
She is out of a 1200-metre winner who is a half-sister to the stakes winners Onemorenomore and Dr Green (NZ), as well as the stakes performers Fury (Fusaichi Pegasus {USA}) and Roussay (Fusaichi Pegasus {USA}). Sarvon has thrown five winners, including the dual Listed scorer Swords Drawn (Camelot {GB}).
Cleopatra Link (NZ) as a yearling | Image courtesy of New Zealand Bloodstock
The Eurell-trained filly is closely related to the Group 3 scorer Vigor Winner (Declaration Of War {USA}) and the Listed placegetter Illumination (NZ) (Iffraaj {GB}).
Looking Back
From Sunday, in Race 2 at Newcastle, 2-year-olds Mega Mic (Microphone) and Skogafoss (Lonhro) were both unplaced on debut.
