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Sky Boy secures Doncaster start with light weight certain to boost chances
Sky Boy has secured a start in the Doncaster Mile, Our Century will be set for the Sydney Cup and Accession emerged as a Golden Slipper contender.
This might have been summer racing at Royal Randwick on Saturday but it had a distinct Sydney autumn carnival feel when three of the big-race winners showed Group 1 potential.
Promising Sky Boy scored his fifth city win in succession — a rare feat given the competitiveness of Sydney racing — and secured a start in the Doncaster Mile next autumn when he won the Villiers Stakes under 53kg.
Trainer Anthony Cummings intends to beat the handicapper and get Sky Boy into the Doncaster on or very close to the race’s 50kg limit.
“For the Doncaster at least he will still be at the lower end of the weights,’’ he said. “That will be part of the plan to make sure that is the case.”
Sky Boy has a similar profile at the same stage of his emerging career as Happy Clapper did three years ago when he won the Villiers with 53kg.
Happy Clapper returned the following autumn to contest the Doncaster with only 50.5kg and ran second, beaten by Winx.
Happy Clapper has developed into a multiple Group 1 winner, including his Epsom Handicap-Doncaster Mile double last season.
Cummings is convinced Sky Boy can develop into a Group 1 contender next year.
“The Villiers was a Group 2 race but the mare that ran second is a Group 1 winner (Aloisia, Thousand Guineas),’’ Cummings said. “The race was of that standard (Group 1) anyway and he has pretty much stamped himself at that level.’’
Our Century was too strong for his Christmas Cup rivals on Saturday, giving trainer Kim Waugh confidence to aim the lightly-raced stayer at the Sydney Cup next autumn, while Accession held off the fast-finishing Strasbourg to win a quality renewal of the Ingis Nursery, suggesting both youngsters could be Golden Slipper-bound.
PRESSURE MOUNTS ON STEROID ARGUMENT
There is increasing pressure from Victorian racing industry participants for Racing Victoria to reverse its ban on the use of Regumate on mares.
After Aloisia’s second in the Villiers, her trainer Ciaron Maher was the latest to call for a “unification” of the rules between NSW and Victoria.
Maher said on social media that Aloisia “showed enormous improvement” in the Villiers and favours keeping the mare racing in NSW, where the use of Regumate is not prohibited.
NSW PRIZEMONEY WINS GLOWING APPROVAL
Champion trainer Chris Waller gave NSW racing and its prizemoney levels a ringing endorsement after his Accession won the $500,000 Inglis Nursery.
“Is there any better racing in the world? I don’t think so,’’ Waller said when interviewed by Sky Thoroughbred Central’s Greg Radley.
NSW racing’s minimum prizemoney levels of $125,000 for Sydney Saturday racing, $50,000 for midweek meetings, $35,000 at provincials, and $22,000 for country TAB meetings is the highest in the nation.
Racing Victoria is set to raise its minimum prizemoney levels to match NSW from January 1 after the Andrews Government was returned to power in the recent state election and will deliver on its promise of a $33 million funding package to the Victorian racing industry.
But Racing NSW is set to announce its new Strategic Plan within the next four weeks which will include another increase to minimum NSW race prizemoney levels to protect the sport’s “grassroots” across city, provincial and country sectors.
The stakes increases will come after Racing NSW recently raised TAB Highway prizemoney to $75,000 per race at Sydney Saturday meetings, introduced the $1.3 million Kosciuszko, and announced stakes increases at country non-TAB and picnic meetings.
HATS OFF THE ACCOMPLISHED GALLEGOS
Rod Gallegos, one of the most respected and accomplished members of the Sydney racing media, has announced his retirement after a distinguished career spanning nearly 60 years.
I had the good fortune to work with Gallegos when I first started at The Daily Telegraph in 1994 and more recently when he was in a managerial role at Sky Sports Radio.
There are few journalists as gifted or with his ability as a compelling storyteller in the written or verbal form. I wish Rod all the best in retirement.
QUEEN OFFERED CASTLE IN THE EAST
Hawkesbury Race Club chief executive Greg Rudolph has made contact with Grant Williams, the trainer of Perth’s super filly, Arcadia Queen, to offer him a training base in the Sydney region next year.
Williams trains on a private property just out of Perth and is keen to find a similar, semirural training facility like Hawkesbury that is close to Sydney for Arcadia Queen, one of the early favourites for the $7.5 million Golden Eagle next spring.
Rudolph also revealed that work will start soon on building a new 50-horse stable complex on the Hawkesbury racetrack with the facility set to be opened during the winter months next year.
123 STARTS IN AND STILL MAKING IMPACT
There are many racehorses with superior talent but surely there are none tougher than Benno’s Boy.
At Albury on Saturday, seven-year-old gelding Benno’s Boy, trained by Trevor Sutherland, contested his 123rd race, scoring his 13th win.
But what is even more remarkable is that Benno’s Boy has had at least two starts every month since September, 2016.
Benno’s Boy has had 114 starts since his last official spell (three months without a race) before June, 2015. During this period, the longest break he has had between starts was nine weeks and six days which was nearly three years ago!
VICTOREM RETURNS TO HIS BEST FORM
Victorem, the Country Championships Final winner, returned to his best form with a brilliant win in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes at Doomben.
Trained by Jenny Graham at Port Macquarie, the talented Victorem unleashed a devastating burst of acceleration from the turn open up a three-and-three-quarter lengths margin on his chasing rivals.
Victorem’s win came a week after Graham’s other promising four-year-old sprinter, Awesome Pluck won by the same margin at Doomben.
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