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Godolphin has continued its great file in The Run To The Rose.
Site visitors Warden has upstaged a few of Sydney’s highest-profile colts to land an impressive first-up win in The Run To The Rose, giving Godolphin its fourth successive victory within the Golden Rose lead-up.
Coach James Cummings confirmed the three-year-old would be part of stablemate Broadsiding within the Group 1 earlier than a choice was made on whether or not to carry him again in distance for a race like The Everest (1200m) or head to a Caulfield Guineas (1600m).
However on Saturday at Rosehill, Cummings was content material to delight in Site visitors’s Warden’s ($8) Run To The Rose (1200m) success after he overpowered Anode ($17) by a brief neck with Storm Boy ($1.90 fav) three-quarters of a size away third, the latter having to expend power to get to the entrance following a tardy begin.
“It was a reasonably thrilling horse race to be a part of, there’s $100 million price of horse flesh strolling across the enclosure right here,” Cummings stated.
“Site visitors Warden has actually asserted himself now….he’s a really critical colt for the spring.
“You didn’t see one of the best of him final prep and he’s an thrilling horse to be taking to higher races.”
Cummings revealed he watched rival Storm Boy parade earlier than that colt’s dominant return within the San Domenico Stakes final month and whereas impressed, didn’t hesitate to take him on with Site visitors Warden.
“I knew that Site visitors Warden wouldn’t come right here and be intimidated by a horse like him as a result of he’s the equal of a bull like Storm Boy,” he stated.
“He’s received the aptitude to dash, he may stretch out to a mile if we really feel like that’s the proper solution to go.
“The Golden Rose is kind of properly located within the spring to be a fork within the street to make that call.”
Apprentice Zac Lloyd was grateful to Godolphin for having the religion to place him on Site visitors Warden in such an essential race and thrilled to get the job performed.
“That’s a top-notch feeling,” Lloyd stated.
“The horse received there fast and I have to say, the final hundred metres he was feeling the pinch so there’s loads of enchancment nonetheless within the horse and I’m very excited for in two weeks.”
Site visitors Warden was Godolphin’s fourth successive Run To The Rose winner after Anamoe (2021), In Secret (2022) and Cylinder final yr.
Adam Hyeronimus was happy with Storm Boy’s effort after he received squeezed out initially then needed to go muster to go to the entrance or be caught deep.
“He’s performed a brave job to run in addition to she has to do this work. It’s onerous for any horse,” Hyeronimus stated.
Linebacker turned in an attention grabbing effort for fourth, whereas each Bustling and Switzerland dissatisfied, ending second final and final respectively.
Within the different three-year-old characteristic of the day, the Chris Waller-trained Girl Shenandoah ($5) completed excessive of Mayfair ($4.80 fav) to take out the Ming Dynasty High quality (1400m) by a half-neck with Snack Bar ($13) one other lengthy head additional again.
Her win presents the secure with the conundrum of whether or not to focus on the Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) in three weeks, the place she would conflict with undefeated stablemate Autumn Glow, or freshen her for the Thousand Guineas (1600m) in the direction of the tip of the Melbourne spring carnival.
“Initially, Chris thought, can we attempt to cut up them with Hermitage (Thoroughbreds) being concerned in each horses, ship one for the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield,” Waller’s assistant Charlie Duckworth stated.
“However now that’s on the backend of the season and also you’ve simply received first-up and the Flight Stakes is simply a matter of weeks away. It’s a tough one.”
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