Innehållsförteckning för May 2024 från Turf Monthly

Lady Of Camelot joined a prestigious group of fillies by winning the 2024 Golden Slipper. It is fair to say that the result was something of an upset with the filly narrowly pipping Coleman who started at long odds. The short-priced favourite Storm Boy was a close third after perhaps being on the worst part of the track on a day that seemed to favour those away from the fence. But nothing can take away from the victory of Lady Of Camelot who now becomes an incredibly valuable breeding proposition. The filly is a daughter of champion stallion, Written Tycoon out of the Fastnet Rock mare, Miss Debutante. She was the third foal of the mare, and interestingly her two older siblings both started in stakes races at Moonee Valley…

Ben Brush was bred at Runnymede Stud in Kentucky for owners Catesby Woodford and Ezekiel F Clay. They purchased his dam, Roseville, while he was in-vitro from Eugene Leigh, the owner of his sire, Bramble. Leigh was to purchase the colt when he went to sale along with his trainer, Ed Brown. He won his first five starts in the mid-West before suffering three loses when transferring to New York. He then won the Holly Handicap and was purchased for around $15,000 by Michael Dwyer who had raced the stallion, Bramble in partnership with his brothers. He finished his 2yo season with thirteen wins from sixteen starts including a win in the Champagne Stakes. Ben Brush returned as a 3yo to win the Kentucky Derby at his first start back.…

So You Think is a champion galloper who went around the world highlighting Australasian breeding and racing. It had been a long time since an Australian galloper had spent so much time overseas and took on the world’s best in conditions that were far from ideal. His results were outstanding and he returned to Australia where fittingly he has developed into a star stallion with progeny have excelled over a range of distances. So You Think is also the horse that arguably cemented the important Sadler’s Wells sire line in Australia more than any other. The colt was foaled on 10 November 2006 yet surprisingly made his racetrack debut while still a 2yo on 20 May 2009. He won a 1400m No Metro Win race for 2yo’s at Rosehill with…

Istidaad was a son of Chief’s Crown out of Mazzei Mood by Roberto. He started his career in 1994, running second at all of his three starts as a 2yo. He returned at three to run second before winning a Maiden at Newmarket over 2400m. He then ran second in the Listed Predominat Stakes at Goodwood, a race won by Pentire. He then finished fifth behind that same horse in the Group 2 King Edward VII at Ascot, which was followed by a second in the Group 2 Prince Of Wales Stakes at Newmarket. After a third in the Group 3 Gordon Stakes at Goodwood, Istidaad scored his second win over 2322m. He then finished third in the Group 1 St Leger at Doncaster over 2919m before he was sent…

Coleman surprised plenty of onlookers with a strong second in the Golden Slipper. Had things fallen slightly differently for him, we could easily be hailing him as our newest 2yo star. It was perhaps quite fitting that he ran so well in the Golden Slipper, as the racing world learned of the death of one his most famous relatives, the grand old Queensland stallion, Rothesay in the week leading up to the race. The colt had his first race start in the Listed Debutante Stakes at Caulfield on 18 October 2023. He won over the 1000m trip by 1.25 lengths from Arabian Summer and Aardvark when a short-priced favourite. Coleman was then sent for a spell and returned to win the Group 3 Chairman’s Stakes over the same course and…

DOSAGES COMMENTS On face value, the obvious point to reflect on with the finishing positions in the 2024 Golden Slipper is that barrier positions are of paramount importance. We see that the first four runners home jumped from barrier six or below. It surely cannot be a coincidence when in 2023, the first five runners home in the race all drew barrier seven or below. We have included the dosages of the field in the finishing order. There are also the dosages of the past ten winners, and while Lady Of Camelot was a little higher than most, she was certainly not far from winners like Estijaab and Capitalist in terms of dosage. The next four in the race all had dosages around 3.00 which is a range that won…

Before Istidaad came to Australia, another family member made a big impact in Australia for Peter’s father, Hall of Fame trainer, Colin Hayes. Beldale Ball was to become Colin Hayes’ first Melbourne Cup winner when he carried only 49.5kg to beat My Blue Denim and Love Bandit in 1980. He was a son of Nashua from a Barbizon mare called San Cat and made only $42,000 in a US sale when purchased by English trainer Michael Jarvis. One of his clients, Tom Kelly who ran a company called Beldale Homes bought into the horse and so the colt was named Beldale Ball. He did little at his first two starts at Ascot, running unplaced at his first two starts as a 2yo over seven furlongs (1400m). Things improved as a…

Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954), Saturday 22 October 1927, page 7 BACK TO GOLDEN FLEECE Hallmark of Productivity REMARKABLE FAMILY HISTORY Textile, the Caulfield Cup winner, descends from a mare which, while not a great success on the turf, was worth her weight in gold as a stud matron. This was Golden Fleece. Bred in New Zealand in 1891, she soon proved to the late A. Nicholson that he had a mare of worth. Carlyon was available at Richmond Park, and her first alliance with the son of Chester was responsible for First Fleece, which did remarkably well for Mr. J. H. Flannagan. That sportsman can vividly recall the day when he thought he had the Goodwood Handicap up his sleeve with Clarion, but First Fleece, in the…