Southport Tycoon even better going Sydney way
Excitement is high in the Southport Tycoon (Written Tycoon) camp heading into Saturday’s G1 All-Aged S. with reports from jockey Jamie Kah that he goes even better the Sydney way. “At his last start at Flemington he was hanging a bit in the straight,” Ciaron Maher stable representative Johann Gerard-Dubord told Racingnsw.com.au.
Southport Tycoon | Image courtesy of The Image Is Everything
“Jamie (Kah) said this way of going he’s very straight. I don’t know whether it is this way of going or a bit of maturity too, but he was very comfortable going the Sydney way.” Southport Tycoon trialled at Warwick Farm last week for third.
“He puts himself on speed, he’s a bit of a fighter. He loves winning, he loves racing, he’s a tough sort of horse. He should get a good run and be there for a long way.” The 3-year-old colt hasn’t raced since winning the G1 Caulfield Guineas at the start of March.
Omen bet for All-Aged
Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr’s 4-year-old gelding Amenable (Lonhro) would be an emotional winner of Saturday’s G1 All-Aged S. the day after his sire, ‘the people’s champion’ died. “I think as a gelding, he's going really well and he's ready to run a very good race,” Price told Racing.com of the $41 chance.
“He's got to be good enough for a race like the All Aged and I get that and he's had a space between runs. He's another one that will probably head to Queensland and run in some good races and he's another one that I just need a nice rhythm of race to race with him, but he will eventually gain good form this prep as a gelding.”
Amenable won on debut at two, and since then all bar two of his starts have been in black type company. He has two wins and three placings from 13 starts with earnings over $400,000 and was second in the G3 Shaftesbury Avenue H. two starts ago.
Miracle filly makes her debut at Kembla Grange
3-year-old filly Audenzia (Brazen Beau) is lucky to be alive, let along making her racetrack debut at Kembla Grange on Saturday. “The lights went out at Kembla (during trackwork one morning) and she impaled herself on the fence,” trainer Benjamin Smith said.
“It took three or four of us holding her leg together to get through. She made it but was touch and go there for a while. She is going to be a nice filly that can stay actually but this will be just a stepping stone for her with some raceday experience.”
Audenzia is out of a half-sister to Listed winner Sparks Fly (Flying Spur).
Rothfire’s injury may led to retirement
Group 1 winner Rothfire (Rothesay) sustained an injury in his box on Friday which may lead to his retirement. “Wednesday trackwork he was perfect, Thursday trackwork he was perfect and we went to get him out of the box (on Friday morning) and he has a swollen joint,” trainer Rob Heathcote told Racenet.com.
“We are meticulous in monitoring his legs given his injury, there was significant swelling to his damaged joint. We had the vets in, there is too much swelling to determine what has happened, so we are treating it for the next four or five days to get the swelling down, get the joint scanned and see it.
Rothfire
“We don't know how he has done it, but it is possible he has run his last race.” Rothfire won six of his seven starts at two including the G1 JJ Atkins P. Back at three, he won the G2 Run To The Roses first-up before fracturing a sesamoid bone while running fourth in the G1 Golden Rose (to Ole Kirk). He wasn’t expected to race again, but returned twelve months later to run fourth first-up in the G2 The Shorts behind three Group 1 winners; Eduardo (Host {Chi}), Nature Strip (Nicconi) and Gytrash (Lope De Vega {Ire}). All up, Rothfire has won ten of his 29 starts and over $3million.
Million dollar Charm Stone set for spring
Blue-blooded 3-year-old filly Charm Stone (I Am Invincible) will skip the autumn and be set for a spring campaign. “She had a knee chip removed after the Golden Rose,” managing owner Sheamus Mills told Racing.com. “After four months off, fitness just ended up getting the better of us.”
“While the early opinion of I Am Invincible as a stallion was that he got very good precocious stock, I think now the more people have given them time, because they all want to run early on natural ability, the more you look after them, the better the rewards later.
“They train on better than they go earlier, and Imperatriz is the prime example … I'd hate not to have her (Charm Stone) around as a 4-year-old mare.” A $1.55million purchase from Emirates Park by Sheamus Mills Bloodstock (FBAA) at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Charm Stone immediately showed ability winning the G3 Ottawa S. at her second start as a 2-year-old. At three, she won her first two starts, both in black type company, before running fifth in the G1 Golden Rose to take her record to three wins from six starts. A full sister to Listed winner Najmaty, she is out of the Group 3 winner Najoom (Northern Meteor).
Pricey juvenile to debut on Sunday
Owned by a syndicate led by Rosemont Stud, 2-year-old colt Fitzpatrick (Snitzel) will make his raceday debut on Sunday at Bendigo for trainers Anthony and Sam Freedman.
Fitzpatrick as a yearling | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
Fitzpatrick was purchased from Mill Park Stud’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale draft for $950,000 by Rosemont Stud Alliance and Suman Hedge (FBAA). The fourth foal of city winning mare Cocoa Doll (More Than Ready {USA}), who is a half-sister to Group 1 winner Away Game (I Am Invincible) and Listed winner Modern Wonder (Snitzel), Fitzpatrick is a half-brother to G3 Blue Diamond Preview (Fillies) placed Written Swoosh (Written Tycoon).
100 wins for NZ’s Kennedy
Premiership-leading jockey Warren Kennedy was the first jockey to crack the 100-win mark for the season at Matamata on Friday when winning on 3-year-old filly Lightning Dream (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}).
Lightning Dream is a winner from four starts. “She relaxed beautifully and finished strongly, and I think she’ll definitely get over more ground,” Kennedy told Loveracing.nz.
Three Marsh juveniles for Saturday’s Star Way S
Trainer Stephen Marsh will be represented by three 2-year-olds in Saturday’s Listed Star Way S at Ellerslie. Love Poem (Snitzel) is out a full sister to Pierro (Lonhro) and has had two starts, both in Group races for two placings. “She’s a lovely filly,” Marsh told Loveracing.nz. “It’s not an overly big field, and it looks a very nice race for her if she can get the right run. She’ll head out to the paddock after this for a nice break, and then we’ll work out a spring campaign centred around the New Zealand 1000 Guineas.”
Fillygizalook (NZ) (Ardrossan) is on debut while Magna Memory (NZ) (Magna Grecia {Ire}) ran fifth at her only start to date.
Global Harmony to return to Australia after Hong Kong ban
Trainer David Hayes was disappointed to announce that his enigmatic galloper Global Harmony (NZ) (Shamexpress {NZ}) has been given a ban by Hong Kong stewards after refusing to even trot down to the gates ahead of his barrier trial at Happy Valley on Friday morning. “He’s going back to Australia,” Hayes told scmp.com.
“He started getting too cunning. He was fine at Beas River, but every time we’d take him to Conghua, Sha Tin and now Happy Valley, he just refuses as soon as he gets close to the track. “He just stops and leans on the rail, there’s nothing we can do.
“It’s a tragedy because he’s a genuine upper-class horse, but Hong Kong’s loss will be Australia’s gain. It’s a totally different country and hopefully we can get his mind in the right place. We might train him as a stock horse for a while and just reset him. He still might be bad in Australia but that’s our only hope.”
Winner of his second in Australia when named Pagan, Global Harmony went to Hong Kong where he won two of his fourteen starts.
Haatem wins Craven, heads to Guineas
Thursday's one-mile G3 bet365 Craven S. at Newmarket was won by Haatem (Ire) (Phoenix Of Spain {Ire}). “This is the racecourse, this is where it matters and, on what he has done today, the 25-1 on offer for the 2000 Guineas looks generous to me,” trainer Richard Hannon said.
“Rosallion will get the mile and they will both probably run (in the G1 2000 Guineas). It's nice to have two very good milers on our hands and two with very good chances in the Guineas. One with an exceptional chance and one with a better chance than he had before. Haatem's also in the G2 German 2000 Guineas and G1 Irish 2000 Guineas and I think he will be a force to be reckoned with wherever he goes. I'm delighted and the owners are delighted. They deserve it.”
Haatem (Ire) | Image courtesy of the Irish National Stud
G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of Spain is a son of Lope De Vega (Ire) who stands at the Irish National Stud for €10,000 (AU$15,600). Haatem is from Phoenix Of Spain’s first crop and is his first stakes winner, having also won the G2 Goodwood Vintage S at two.
