Sir Owen Glenn’s Golden Slipper (G1)-winning homebred Girl Of Camelot and Clinton McDonald’s Blue Diamond Stakes (G1) heroine Hayasugi will once more face off in group 1 environment when the pair make their respective returns as 3-year-olds within the Sept. 7 Moir Stakes (G1).
The previous, who additionally received the Widden Stakes (G3) and completed runner-up in each Hayasugi’s Blue Diamond and the Percy Sykes Stakes (G2) (carrying 59 kilograms) in a powerful juvenile marketing campaign, is the final favourite to seize additional glory on this weekend’s AU$750,000 weight-for-age contest.
“We predict that bodily and mentally she has come again a bit greater and stronger than final season,” Go Bloodstock’s director Steve O’Connor informed ANZ Bloodstock Information.
“It is all the time a problem whenever you tackle the older horses after their debut season however we could not be happier along with her moving into to tackle that problem.”
The challenges dealing with Girl Of Camelot, who’s educated by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, embody twin group 1 winner I Want I Win and bettering 4-year-old mare Estriella.
“We have a great younger jockey onboard in Zac Lloyd, she’s obtained the light-weight (50 kilograms), profiles as a horse to run properly within the race traditionally, and has drawn a great barrier (2) to both lead or sit on the tempo,” O’Connor mentioned.
“She was nice for us final season, she very almost received the 2 largest 2-year-old races of the yr with the Slipper success and shut second within the Blue Diamond.”
Girl Of Camelot could also be taking up her elders in Saturday’s Moir Stakes, however she may also face a really acquainted rival in fellow 3-year-old filly Hayasugi.
The Clinton McDonald-trained daughter of Royal Assembly additionally produced a superb juvenile marketing campaign final season, successful not solely the Blue Diamond, but additionally the Blue Diamond Prelude (G2) and Blue Diamond Preview (G3), changing into simply the second filly after Midnight Fever in 1987 to land the trio of occasions.
Having ended her 2-year-old marketing campaign with a disappointing run in Girl Of Camelot’s Golden Slipper, the place she got here house final of the 16 runners after almost unseating rider Jamie Kah popping out of the obstacles, Hayasugi returned with a vastly promising third, overwhelmed 2 1/2 lengths, behind subsequent Sandown-Hillside winner Pharari in an 800-meter barrier trial at Cranbourne Aug. 26.
“We could not be happier along with her,” Hayasugi’s part-owner Shane McGrath informed ANZ Bloodstock Information. “She had her winter holidays within the solar on the Gold Coast and has had two lovely trials main into the Moir this weekend.
“The one blemish she has on her copybook is that Golden Slipper run, the place every part that might’ve gone fallacious did. It is a fairly arduous feat for any 2-year-old to win the Preview, Prelude, and Blue Diamond.
“She’s not grown any taller, however she’s undoubtedly strengthened and thickened up. She’s the epitome of an Australian sprinter, and her perspective will take her a good distance.
“The observe ought to go well with her, there will be numerous velocity up entrance and we’ll trip her simply off the tempo to flash house late and hopefully we’re ok.”
Fillies and mares have an incredible report within the Moir Stakes up to now twenty years, successful the race 11 occasions within the final 21 years in actual fact, together with securing the trifecta in 2017, whereas additionally holding 4 of the primary 5 locations house in 2018 and 2020Â respectively.
