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Speaker 2Yes, good morning. On this Thursday, it's the 12th of November. It's a big hello to you listening on your local SEN track and RSN 927 dials, wherever you may be listening on the SEN and RSN apps. Of course, if you're watching us on Racing.com, it's great to have your company. Or if you're listening to us a little later on on the podcast, hello to you. Thursday, it's a massive show. Flemington is finished, which many say was the end of the spring carnival a few years back, but it just continues to roll on. And it's sensational, isn't it? Because we head to Sandown. It's a great day at Sandown. You've got a million dollar three-year-old fillies race over the 1200 metres. You've got the Sipping Classic, which sees the return of Kingswood. Who won the Caulfield Cup. He's on his way to Hong Kong. And you also get a sea of four stakes over the 1400 metres, where you get some group one winners of the spring that rock up here. For their final runs in the spring in Baywack and also, of course, Angel Capital. And Jimmy Starr is looking for his big victory this time around. So I can't wait to dissect this Sandown meeting. We'll catch up with the host of trainers for Giddy Up Stable Mail. And then David Gately will join me for, of course, Gator's Game Plan. And Ascot's in full swing. It's the opening day of the Pinnacles. There's so much on the line, especially in the R.J. Peters, which is the final event. It's always got a little bit of drama, this race. It was this time last year that Cosmic Crusader needed to win the R.J. Peters to get into the railway. He had no luck whatsoever. He missed out on a start in the railway. He would have won that probably. And then he went on to win a Northerly at Wait for Age against most of those horses he would have competed in, in the railway. And this year, he got a couple of similar scenarios. I don't think they're as good as Cosmic Crusader. But Rockfest is $1.70 with bet $3.65 for the Pierce Brothers. And Dan Pierce will be my special guest in about 45 minutes time. William Pike rides Western Miss. And I guess if he can win on Western Miss, she'll gain a start in the railway stakes. And then Bob's got a dilemma. Does he go to the railway with $61, which I think is more likely than unlikely with Cosmic Crusader. And have a crack at a railway stakes. Or does he give him a little bit of a break and set him for the Northerly, knowing that Western Miss will be able to represent him in the most famous race in WA, that railway stakes. So we'll discuss all of that as the morning unfolds. Graham Biggs, Charlotte Littlefield, my special guest. Charlotte Littlefield's got a runner in a New Zealand Cup. Plus, of course, she's got Concord Connor going around at Sandown on Saturday. Tage Weir's on fire. She's building up. A really good young team of gallopers in the early part of her career. And we'll have a chat to Tage Weir as well. And Mitch Pateman will join us for Giddy Up, for the Giddy Up Stable Mail for Western Australia, just after 11 o'clock. So it's a massive show. Giddy Up always brought to you by Bet365. It's never ordinary when it's brought to you by Bet365. What's gambling really costing you? For free and confidential support, visit gamblinghelponline.org.au. Of course, Garrett's Horse and Hound is our text line sponsor. You can join the Garrett's Horse and Hound text line on 0499736736. Garrett's Horse and Hound, for all of you canine and equine essentials. And the CFO Stakes meeting, Group 1 CFO Stakes meeting, headlines a 10 thrilling race card there at Sandown. Of course, tickets are just $15 at Ticket Tech. It's three minutes past eight. Let's get stuck into Giddy Up Stable Mail. Now on Giddy Up. It's time for Stable Mail. Great to have Gavin Bechler to kick off Giddy Up Stable Mail on this Thursday morning. Hello to you, Gavin. How are you, Gav? How's things, mates? You've got Kingswood back at the races in the Sipping Classic. He's first up after winning a Caulfield Cup. How is he, mate?
Speaker 3Yeah, he's great. I don't think I could have him much better, actually. His work was super on Tuesday and he's in the zone.
Speaker 2One of those horses, is he a little bit like Cosmic Crusader in a way when we've had a chat to Bob Peters saying that Cosmic Crusader just, he does better when he's in work and when he has a bit of a break, he hates it basically and he doesn't do well at all. Is Kingswood a little bit like that?
Speaker 3He enjoys his job. He enjoys the stable life. And yeah, I suppose you could say that, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, some horses just enjoy being in work, don't they? The routine that comes their way and they just enjoy the environment rather than being bored in a paddock.
Speaker 3Yeah, for sure. And he actually is a horse that doesn't spell that well. He's a little bit busy when he does go out for a break. So, yeah, look, as soon as he regresses or we're not happy with his performance as race day, well, we'll pull up stumps and go to the paddock. But whilst he's. Whilst he's racing well and he's coming through his runs in good order, we'll continue to run.
Speaker 2You're a great form student as well. Is the Caulfield Cup form better than Geelong Cup form in your eyes?
Speaker 3I would have thought so. But, you know, the Geelong Cup winner's gone on and won a Melbourne Cup impressively. So, it's probably not a bad form reference.
Speaker 2Yeah. So, you think he's maybe a little bit better, if not the same, than he was in the Caulfield Cup? So, you nearly expect him just to win there on Saturday, don't you?
Speaker 3I wouldn't say he's better. But I don't think he's regressed on the same token either. So, I'm going to the races confident and I'd be surprised if he wasn't figuring. Geez, I watched that Caulfield Cup run.
Speaker 2It was somehow, it was some run to do what he was able to do on that day.
Speaker 3Yeah, look, I know he was three wide, but he was three wide off a soft tempo and he was able to just get into a lovely rhythm and win that first wave of horses. And when Johnny was just able to sit there and tank up behind them and ride the patient race. And, yeah, he was obviously a very impressive winner. So, you head off to Hong Kong after this? It'll be all performance-based. We want to. But, you know, I said to the owner the other night, realistically, if we're not winning this race, we're not going to be figuring Hong Kong VARs. And we probably need to give him a break. And set him up for the autumn.
Speaker 2So, if he doesn't win, he doesn't go to Hong Kong, basically. He needs to win.
Speaker 3I think so. It'll be a conversation that I have with Glenn post-race. But, yeah, I would think if we're to be going to Hong Kong and we don't want to go over there just to make up numbers, you'd want to see the horse running very well on Saturday and being a bit unlucky if he wasn't winning.
Speaker 2What about, Cara, with the stable made in the same colours? The former Irish Gallop, he probably needs to do a little bit more. Of course, he goes around in that third race over the 1400. Yeah, he came over here with big
Speaker 3wraps and probably had better three-year-old form than what Kingswood did. He was a little bit unsound when he first arrived and he's been a bit of a slow burn. He doesn't like wet ground, so he can probably put a pen through his first two runs. And I did think he improved on the Heath track at Caulfield. Third run for us, but I'm a realist and he needs to improve off what he's done to date on race day.
Speaker 2Do you think he can do that, however? Would it be a surprise to you if he finishes in the money? Yeah, I would say I'm hopeful more than confident. You've got a winner for us today at Seymour.
Speaker 3Yeah, I reckon Seyford can win. He looks to get control of that race. And, yeah, I thought his run first up was full of merit. Probably should. He could have run second and he looks to control that race
Speaker 2and I think he'll be hard to beat. So that's Seyford race three, number three in the OTI colours. And I think packing him on Friday night as well with that Moonee Valley meeting. You've got some nice chances there.
Speaker 3Any standouts? Overactive has been trialling very well. He's having his first start for our stable. Yeah, we've been very happy with that horse. I see that he's never won first up previously, but I think he's a. a good each-way bet at the odds he is. And Jet Setter Jack at Geelong, I think he's going really well too. So I think they're probably our best two runners for the week.
Speaker 2So that's race eight, number five there at Geelong. Jet Setter Jack and Roll the Dice have got a big team engaged for your stable there at Packingham on Friday night. Overactive, looking forward to seeing what he can do. Race seven, number two. But, mate, it's great to have Kingswood in a zipping classic, the Caulfield Cup champ. Let's hope he can get the job done and then we can book our. our flights to Hong Kong. Well, I know a few of you will want to be jumping on your bandwagon if you're going to Hong Kong, Gav.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's going to be a good problem to have. So hopefully he can go there and bowl the race over on Saturday and be on his way to Hong Kong.
Speaker 2Has life changed much for you after winning a Caulfield Cup?
Speaker 3Not one iota.
Speaker 2No, there you go. No. Phone hasn't started to ring a little bit more?
Speaker 3Oh, there's been a couple of new horses come in, but I wouldn't and say anything crazy like we've got a stable of 45 that's comfortable and we're happy with that and uh we're probably more about getting quality than quantity and um no to answer your question it hasn't really changed much at all now i've got
Speaker 2one more question for you before we let you go you've got any young horses that are showing ability that their share is still available
Speaker 3uh yeah we've got a two-year-old there by profondo out of a mare called winkleman and he's shown us a bit over the last couple of weeks he's probably a fortnight off the jump outs and um he looks to have nice enough ability so uh he would be one that's on the website to to have a look into this is the best
Speaker 2way to go i know the trainers don't like it but you ask the trainer if there's anything up and going that two weeks out from a jump out that will get to the races and give you a crack so um yeah you just go to the website and see what we can do there so it's the the son of profondo is that right correct yep all right then thanks for that gav oh well the most important question if i gave you a hundred dollars what would you do with it this weekend i'll be having 100 to win on kingswood saturday that's race nine number two kingswood in the zipping classic thanks for that gav thanks gav and there's gavin bedggood it's 11 minutes past eight we're going to take a break on the other side of it adrian bott will be my special guest here on giddy up
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Speaker 2back to giddy up this is stable mail and to kick off our thursday morning it's 13 minutes past eight it is great to have your company adrian bott and gay waterhouse will play major parts at sandown also newcastle on a saturday afternoon and adrian bott joins us now good morning adrian hey morning gareth um first of all some news that broke yesterday surfing for the first time in a while i'm going to talk about surfing for the first time in a while i'm going to talk about surfing for the first time in a while first of all some news that broke yesterday surfing for the first time in a while i'm going to talk about surfing for the first time in a while i'm going to talk about some news that broke yesterday surfing some news that broke yesterday surfing some news that broke yesterday surfing birds she's off to wa
Speaker 4birds she's off to wa birds she's off to wa yeah at this stage um owner is very willing yeah at this stage um owner is very willing yeah at this stage um owner is very willing to give her a chance over there um you know to give her a chance over there um you know to give her a chance over there um you know some some nice races and good opportunities some some nice races and good opportunities some some nice races and good opportunities for um obviously she's spring some good for um obviously she's spring some good for um obviously she's spring some good form through from the spring she she did form through from the spring she she did form through from the spring she she did disappoint in the in the mayor's race on on the backup but um she's just had a bit of time to to get over that now and sort of put put that sort of disappointment down to just the seven days which she didn't handle so um hopefully she can bounce back off that and if she does um yeah it looks to be well placed talking to our form
Speaker 2experts in wa it looks like a lovely opportunity for her mainly because they believe when they have a look at the future markets there and what they've seen so far in wa there's there's not too many horses that can race on the pace there which um she loves to do and she might be hard to catch around ascot there on a saturday afternoon yeah look
Speaker 4they're all factors that have been considered in terms of the final decision for her to go over so she does look to be well placed and um yeah she's had a few days off freshen up off the back of her last run she's she's back up here in sydney at present sort of preparing for
Speaker 2the flight would she go railway northerly 1800 wait for age or would you go and wait for the gold rush over 1400
Speaker 4no it'd be uh tempted to to stretch her out in trip yeah um yeah i feel in time you know always felt in time she would she would get out um to sort of 2000 meters uh we just haven't quite had the right opportunity to to test her just yet and obviously she's been so effective in those right races at the mile but i do always feel that she's capable of stretching that over for us geez
Speaker 2harry lime was good during the flemington carnival he was first up off a bit of a break as well when he was third there at flemington over the 1400 meters like renarson and barracks and good horses and he wasn't far off them can he win a sand down guineas on saturday
Speaker 4yeah he can he should relish the step up in tripping he was probably a bit not necessarily flat-footed there but he just wasn't quite able to build into the race at the right time there first up um he did an excellent effort because he it sort of showed some good form in sydney things didn't go right at his only start or his first start down in melbourne had a bit of a setback off that we had to give him a bit of a freshen up so he came back and um yeah i thought promising promising signs there from him so he's always shown potential good form around him um but yeah that was an excellent return yeah and improvement in him then i'd like to think so but even just just getting out to to to the mile um yeah it's certainly going to be uh much much better
Speaker 2for him where's vorban at at the moment of course he goes around the zipping classic yeah just had
Speaker 4a a a very slight issue there um while we scratched from from last last week but he's bounced back really well um yeah i think he can you know difficult um difficult position he ended up in in the cup and in running there which you know ultimately didn't suit and sort of just had him a little bit exposed so um can be forgiving of that um you know we're certainly seeing plenty of horses come back from you know from that race and and come through these sort of types of form races and and bounce back so um he's been seems to be in good shape and um can make a case for him
Speaker 2so at his best he he would give this a shake he's nearly 50 there on saturday how confident are you that we can see the real vorban come saturday
Speaker 4yeah look i i think obviously that's um yeah i think he's going to be much better than what those odds do suggest but but obviously um you do want to see him sort of bounce back to a bit of form as well he's had a um you know his runs his prep and uh have been good he's had some excuses in those uh but obviously hasn't been the necessarily the best path in order for him to get here how
Speaker 2do you write him then from that guy
Speaker 4yeah he's a little bit tricky um you know would have loved a softer draw for him um because he does seem to enjoy where he can just be that sort of kind of run and um you know we've seen he can be effective and and show a nice turn of foot so um you know hopefully get a bit of luck get a bit um and yeah having have him just where he's happy you
Speaker 2got some big chances there in the last race for the mares over the 1500 meters tomato toasty was very good there the other day behind shadow who's been heavily supported to win the c4 stakes there on saturday yeah i thought
Speaker 4it was an excellent effort um yeah she's she's really effective sort of at this sort of distance range first up the the 1200s had her a bit stretched she was a bit exposed um last up she's got shuffled back a little bit further than wanted to in in the run just left ourselves a bit too much to do but um i i thought she worked home very very well um it does look to be some nice pressure in this race but we've got a good draw hopefully just to be able to put ourselves in the right position there but if she switches off um she's got a lovely lovely turn of foot to be to be very effective and um super fabulistic she's one that's just sort of been going from strength to strength and um you know it's an excellent uh win win there um last week obviously on the back up here which i think she can handle coming back in trip would probably be the only sort of query at this stage sort of going up and up in class and back in trip but in saying that she's um yeah she was very effective and still very sharp there at a last start can you split
Speaker 2those two mares oh no look
Speaker 4very very hard to split them um you know i'm not sure how to place that
Speaker 2sorry at um hunter day there at newcastle stellar army goes around in the max lee's classic this is for the two-year-olds always an interesting race there's been some really good horses that have competed in this race over the years it's over the 900 meters so you need a little bit of luck but what can you tell us about this debutant affiliate of course by i'm invincible yeah she's
Speaker 4yeah i did find those 900 meter races a little bit difficult to line up but uh she showed blistering speed and in in her own intro on the day like just great gate speed good sustained speed and um you know she ran good time on the day as well against some of the the open trials so um always been a sharp philly um very nice philly that i'm hoping can be on a magic millions path for us so um this is just sort of a nice race to kick her off in um sort of get her up and up and going but the the the speed she showed in her trials certainly looked to be one of the horses that would sort of handle these 900 meter races in
Speaker 2race six over the four hundred meters she's love story is writing some story at the moment um she's been dominant her last couple can she win again yeah
Speaker 4she's been excellent um you know she's been holding her form really well you know from what we've seen in her work so um building confidence for each time she steps out uh i do think there's some nice upside for her and uh once again looks to be a another nice natural progression for it you've
Speaker 2got savvy spies a progressive type who goes around the both six five and then um campeldino is probably on the other end he's looking to try and find some of his best form um how do you rate these two horses over the 2300 yeah look can
Speaker 4certainly make a case for campaldino here it's probably the you know the best place he's been all preppy in fantasy he probably hasn't quite shown the form that he that he could but thought he's um he really sharpened up nicely off his off his last run like going back to the 2000 meters last start uh didn't have much uh but yeah it wasn't wasn't the best setup for him but that was sort of the race we had in mind in order to get him uh to this run here um so i feel today's a or saturday a good chance for him to bounce back um savvy spies come through the grades quickly um yeah he's obviously i respect how the market's got him he's He's got a lot of upside. He's been very effective when he's now starting to learn to settle really well in his races, so he's got a nice draw to take advantage of that. But, yeah, he's challenged. He's got to take that step up into this grade once again against a few of those sort of really conditioned horses, but certainly respect the market with him.
Speaker 2All right. Shangri-La Boy and Rhody Gilligan go around in race number 10. They're both at a big price. Should we put any of those gallopers into our quality there on Saturday?
Speaker 4Look, I think both are probably going to be a little bit more effective deeper into the prep once they get out to sort of a mile plus. But, yeah, they're well conditioned for their first up run. Looks to be sort of quite an open race, but I will say they'll be more effective sort of at the mile plus for them.
Speaker 2We're back at Canterbury tomorrow. Any winners there?
Speaker 4Yeah, interesting meeting. We've only got a couple going around. Let's have a look at what I think is the best for them. From me to you, having her debut, I think she's a nice dollar filly. Marcus Port can be forgiven last start. He's dropping back from the 1,800 metres. Just didn't quite see out the trip, so he might be more effective getting back to that track. And Hella Bella, she's in a race where hopefully she likes to dominate her races. She's been in a couple of fast run races over the shorter trip, so she might get better conditions to suit tomorrow for her.
Speaker 2Usually the Waterhouse and Bott gallopers on a Friday night at Canterbury, when it's hard to make up ground, you're always hard to beat. So you're night racing back at Canterbury there tomorrow night. If I gave you a hundred dollars, what would you do with it this weekend, Adrian?
Speaker 4I think I'm going to look to Sandown. Yeah, I think the two mayors are in great order, but very hard to split them. So I'll stick with Harry Lime. I thought that was an excellent return and should be well suited.
Speaker 2Harry then, race five, number four, Harry Lime in the Sandown Guineas. And an update on Sir Delius. How has he made it? He was better there. The other day. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 4he seemed a lot more, a lot more focused and a lot more switched on. He really, really put in there. So encouraging to say, you think he's certainly back on track for us. He's arrived up in Sydney. He looks to be in good shape. Yeah. At this stage, preparing him towards the race in Hong Kong. So he'll have another trial later this month. And just if he continues to tick all the boxes, well, that's something, that's a firmly on the radar for him.
Speaker 2Okay. So he's a strong chance to get to Hong Kong for, I think it's the Vars, isn't it? Yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah. Look, there's obviously, you know, he's, he seems in great order. That's sort of always been on the cards for him. And you know, off that last run, it certainly didn't deter us.
Speaker 2No. Well, that is exciting. Hey, we appreciate your time as always, Adrian, and good luck this weekend. Thanks very much. There's Adrian Botte, 24 minutes past eight. So Sir Delius is a strong chance down. To head to Hong Kong. Obviously you just heard from Gavin Bedgwood as well with Kingswood, the Caulfield cup champ. He needs to win and win well in a zipping classic to convince Gavin that he would be competitive in a Hong Kong Vars. So some news just there from a few of the trainers there regarding maybe some Australian representation there at Hong Kong during their international day there in December. So yeah, Sir Delius is a strong chance to get to Hong Kong, which is exciting. 25 minutes past eight. We'll take a break. We'll continue on Giddy Up Stable Mail next.
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Speaker 2Welcome back to Giddy Up Gareth Hall with you. Geez, Graeme Beek's got a big team engaged there at Sandown on Saturday and the champion trainer joins us. G'day Graeme. G'day Gareth. How are you? I'm well mate. Do you know what? I said to Sammy Highland the other day, I said, Sammy, I'm going to Duncow. We're doing the show there tomorrow. I said, I'm looking forward to staying at your house. We're going just around the corner from Hamilton these days. And he goes, you know what? I won't be there. I said, you're kidding me. It's the biggest weekend of the year and you're part of the woods. And he goes, I'm heading to Sandown to watch Splashback because she will be winning the all stake. So there you go. He's bullish again. He's stepped up, hasn't he? He has stepped up. How bullish are you regarding Splashback's chances on Saturday?
Speaker 5Well, I felt she ran very well first up in the McEwen. I thought she was just starting to do her best work late. Started to get warmed up. So she hit the line well. Nice break between runs, three weeks. Obviously, it's a highly competitive race and very good horses. I'm sure there'll be no loafing in the race because obviously Baywark likes to roll forward and Shadowbar rolls forward on speed. So hopefully they may have a, do it and help something from sitting back behind them.
Speaker 2I reckon it's work moving the CA4 stakes to where it is today because obviously this is a very good field at the end of the spring really, isn't it? Yeah,
Speaker 5it's a small but a very elite field. So, you know, they've got some very well credentialed horses. So, you know, they're giving a pat on the back.
Speaker 2Yep. Do you need it wet to beat these horses?
Speaker 5Oh, no, I wouldn't suggest that at all. She does like it. That does enhance the chances. Certainly when it's, a bit of cut in the ground, but no, she's very effective on good ground as well.
Speaker 2All right then. So we'll have something each way on her splashback because if we don't, we couldn't put up with Sammy telling us why didn't you back her. So we'll do just that. Race eight, number seven in the CA4 stakes. Jeez, I'm in love with the Roused. I thought she was very good there the other day. And this is a strong race. It's a million dollar three-year-old fillies race, the Thoroughbred Club stakes, but she looks like she's got plenty of upside.
Speaker 5Yeah, look, she ran very, very well, obviously being a first go up the straight and probably got a little bit exposed when the ones on the inside sort of dropped away inside the last sort of 200 and she got the wanders a little bit, but look, she was very good. So, and they ran fast time. So, which is good indication. They were just slightly slower than the McEwen stakes. So, you know, it all goes well for Saturday. She's drawn a nice skate and she's trained on particularly well. It's a good field. Yeah, it is. So there's no ducking and diving this time of year, but look, it'll probably set up a few of these fillies for next autumn. Do you think she's up to these?
Speaker 2Most definitely. And the gate helps her big time, doesn't it? Yeah,
Speaker 5I think you want to draw positive. Yeah. And looks, obviously, you know, there'll be good speed in the race. So, you know, she should be able to get a nice cart. Like she's not a horse necessarily has the lead. We just used her gate speed because she drew out the middle of the gate, the middle gate last, last time at Flemington. So we'd let her roll forward because I said to Jordan, it's no good, dragging her back. If they jump and they go slow, it's too hard. So we sort of let her roll forward where she was in a good rhythm. So she should be able to get a good run from that gate and just be ridden just off speed somewhere there and give herself every opportunity.
Speaker 2Can you compare she's a hustler to this time last year when she won the zipping classic? Well,
Speaker 5probably a form was a bit better this time last year going into the race. I guess now that she's up to this level of competition, she's sort of struggling. She's struggling a little bit. She needs to sort of lift a game a bit Saturday, but she's had a few things not go a hundred percent right for her. You know, I just feel that probably running on the heavy track and the Turnbull stakes, then a two week turnaround to the Caulfield cup just might've been a bit jaded. So she's had a month between runs now and, and freshened up nicely. She's had a little tick over jump out in between to keep her up to the mark. So, you know, she certainly getting back on good ground, big flat track, track, you know,
Speaker 2so it should, should help her. A couple of your chances in race two with your fillies. Parvin who goes around in race number two. She's a four year old man now, of course. Is it too short for her first up over the 1300?
Speaker 5Possibly might be a bit sharp for the 1300 meters first up, but she is going particularly well. She did jump out nicely here at Cranbourne about 10 days ago. I found the line well, but she's got quite a good bit of, of ability that Philly. Um, so she'll be better when she gets up to sort of, you know, the middle distances, you know, from mile up to sort of, you know, 1800 meters. Um, she'll be really seeing to the four there, but look, you know what, she's going well, if they overdo it up front and she'll be steaming home. How's Ruska Roma going in your eyes? Well, she's been racing without luck. Um, she do the outside gate and was four and five wide in the Hong Kong Jockey Club plate. She's been racing a little bit keen. So we've taken the blinkers off. Uh, so they've come off of a Saturday. So, uh, give herself a chance to just the relaxing off speed. She's drawn a good gate on Saturday. So she should get a good run. Uh, it looks to be a little bit of speed in the race. So hopefully she's not too far off them. Um, and, uh,
Speaker 2gets herself every opportunity. This looks a lovely race for Peloton on Saturday and race six over the
Speaker 5thousand. Yeah. He got a little bit left exposed last week and I just not a hundred percent sure that he runs 1200 meters. He's out strongly. Like he's had 12 runs at 1200 meters and one, one and a second out of all those runs. I trained his mother and she was very fast and exceed and Excel me and a way. So she was very fast and precocious. Just think 1100 G sweet spot. Uh, I know he's coming back to a thousand at sand down, but with the up uphill run in the straight and they, if they ever do it up front, he might be able to steam over the top of them. He's done very well. We, week so he's in a good spot.
Speaker 2Like he did similar for you when he was first up for your stable. Is that how you see him winning that race there on Saturday?
Speaker 5Yeah, I think he's better when he's held up a bit and gets clear running. The other day, he got left exposed pretty early in that race, running into that pretty strong headwind, and he just got found wanting the last 200. So I think we can turn things around, ride him quietly Saturday and give him his opportunity. Would it surprise you if Silicap won the last? Probably would do. She's not 100% sure that she's going to start because she sort of sustained an injury in the race when Pondolari galloped on her hind heel, clip the heel, and it just hasn't sort of gone the right way, the way we like it. So we're going to make a decision
Speaker 2tomorrow whether she takes a place or not. If I gave you $100, what would you do with it this weekend, Graeme? Put on a rouse. Beautiful. Race 7, number 13 in the Thoroughbred Club Stakes there at Sandown on Saturday. You've got a couple of chances at Seymour today. Any standouts in your eyes? I thought probably Fine and Sunny.
Speaker 5She won very well, like the first win at Pakenham the other day. So she seems to be in good form and I feel it's the right race for her.
Speaker 2And you've got some nice horses going around there on a Friday as well at Geelong, and you've got Via Teresa in the first race there at Pakenham tomorrow night. But should we be backing any of those horses? Probably Corrito at Geelong tomorrow. Yeah, she's probably our best hope tomorrow. Race 7, number 9, Corrito there with Geordie Childs aboard. Thanks for your time as always, Graeme, but good luck there, especially on Saturday at Sandown. Pleasure. Thank you very much. There's the champion trainer, Graeme Begg, 35 minutes past eight. Charlotte Littlefield will be my special guest next.
Speaker 1Live across Australia, this is Giddy Up with Gareth Hall.
Speaker 2Welcome back to Giddy Up. Gareth Hall with you on this Thursday morning. This is Giddy Up Stable Mail. Charlotte Littlefield's in for a big day on Saturday. She's got one of her stars going around the Henley Home Summon Stakes over the 1500 metres in Concord, Conny. And then in the New Zealand, the New Zealand Cup, she'll be settling up a runner as well. Tijanas goes around at an each-way price there in one of the most famous races in New Zealand. And Charlotte joins us now. G'day, Charlotte. Good morning. Are you in New Zealand or are you in Pakenham? Christ Church or Pakenham? It's difficult to weigh out where you'd want to be in this world.
Speaker 6I know. I would love to be in New Zealand, but unfortunately, I couldn't get there. There's not two of me. We've got a lot of runners. We've got a lot of runners here. And Jules really needed a little holiday.
Speaker 2Yeah. New Zealand Cup week's one of my favourite weeks because if you love your thoroughbreds and you love your harness, you get it all, really. You've got the New Zealand Trotting Cup on the Tuesday and the thoroughbred New Zealand Cup on the Saturday. You've got Thousand Guineas Day Saturday as well. I mean, on last Saturday, I think it's the 2000 guineas there this Saturday. So it's a great week. There's always some nice horses going around. And the big question, I guess now I need to ask you, Charlotte, can you win the New Zealand Cup?
Speaker 6Well, I think we've got a good chance. And Jules went over yesterday morning. He's been staying to Janus with Kylie Hoskin up in Auckland. That's where he flew into. So we've been doing some beach work with her up there. She's another trainer for Go Racing. We're working together very well together at Go Racing. The boys there, Sean, Matt, Albert, they're all, you know, they've brought us together, all the trainers. We've got Man's All Blue here, Felicia. The latter at the moment. Kylie's got to Janus and me over there, who's now down in Christchurch with her other horses running in the race as well. So it's a big team effort to get the horses, well, to get to Janus over there and in good order. And Jules gave me the tick of approval this morning. So I've done a bit of media work this morning. He's watched him work and he's happy.
Speaker 2So how long has he been there for?
Speaker 6He's been over there for just a touch over three weeks. He's a horse that, you know, just takes a little bit of time to get over travel. So we didn't want to do it all in one hit. And it was essential we got him over there. He's a bit earlier. He's also a horse that loves being in a new environment. And that's what we found with him here. You know, he came over here and he just bounced straight into that two mile sand down cup and ran a really good race in that race for us here. And I think, you know, he's along the same lines. We've done the same with him. We've given him a nice jump out where we didn't ask too much, just enough just to see him through the line. So a nice tick of approval. He took over jump out for in there and yeah, he's just done starting to look really good blossom for the race. So I'm hoping he can go there and run really well.
Speaker 2And what ground do you want for him?
Speaker 6He can go on anything. Um, but obviously he he's, he's a bit of a slower horse. That's why he's a true two miler. So he doesn't want an electric speed. He gets found out when there's an electric speed. And I don't think there will be. And especially if there's a bit of rain, um, in, in the, uh, the soil. But Jill said that it's a beautiful day over there today. It's about 26, four degrees and very warm. So yeah, I think we'll be drying out because it's currently what a heavy eight. I think it will probably dry out and be a soft track, which would be ideal.
Speaker 2They tell me it rains tomorrow. It doesn't stop raining, however. So that'd be interesting to see how that track comes up. But, um, they had a lot of rain there on cup day on the Tuesday at Annington, but it seemed to race pretty well there yesterday at Rickett. And so, um, yeah, it'd be, it'd be fascinating to see how all that unfolds. Have you got a jockey yet?
Speaker 6Oh my God. I knew you were going to ask me that. Joey Marrera's cousin. Yeah. I can't remember his name and that's absolutely.
Speaker 2I can't. I don't know. I don't know. I can't. I don't, I haven't come across Joe Marrera's cousin just yet. Um, yeah. So he's Brazilian.
Speaker 6He's very good. And, and apparently I need to make sure that we just discussed riding tactics a couple of days out. So, um, so that he, he doesn't get lost in translation. But, uh, yeah, he's, he's got 53 kilos. So, so Bruno's name is,
Speaker 2I reckon. Bruno.
Speaker 6Bruno. That's it. That's brilliant. We've got it. Bruno's probably going to just hate me for that now. I'll never forget if he wins me in a New Zealand car. Will I? No.
Speaker 2That was Concord Connie going. She goes around the Henley home, summon stakes over the 1500 meters.
Speaker 6She does. It's, um, it was a campaign where we had three races, uh, picked out for her with the Empire Rose as the grand finale. And she's just come on. So much since that race and she, it would have been an absolute waste to pop her in the paddock. It really would have been. She was just, um, coming to a new peak, I thought post that run. And, uh, hence why we looked ahead and found the salmon steaks, um, with discussions with Craig, he said, you've just got to keep pushing onto that race. And I think it was a logical selection of race for her to try and get that bold black type. You know, we've had that group one placing. Now we've been placed in, uh, group level before, but we just have to get that winner group level, tick that box. And then now we can pop her away, give her a nice break, and then we can come back for a really good autumn campaign. But you know what it's like though. I mean, you look at that field. Yes, she's highly sought after in the market, but it's still, it's some nice horses in there. That Tara Lee of Michael Kent, that's a horse that I'm wary of. It's got a very good turn of foot late. Um, so victory, there's a couple of really nice horses. Plus that's super fabulistic. So it's not a straightforward race. It's still, it's some nice progressive horses that are on the up. So we're going in there still cautiously aware that there are some nice horses, but we've got a very good product as well.
Speaker 2But there's no lady said in Doha,
Speaker 6Charlotte, that's the one I said to Willow. I said, can you beat lady Shannon Dara? And he said, I don't know if I can beat her, but we've got the horse with X factor and that's what happened on the day. And she ran a career best and we ran a career best, but I still think we've got career bests to improve on and better. So, hopefully next time we see her we'll, uh, we'll beat her.
Speaker 2Oh, that is sensational. So yeah, she, she's definitely the horse to beat Concord Connie in the summit stakes there in that final event. And then you've got one more runner, cable dancer who won well last start. Obviously this is tougher for the seven year old, your expectations with him in the first race.
Speaker 6Again, another horse that pulled up incredibly well. We're very mindful of how these horses pull us in the first day or two. And, um, w we let them tell us where they're at and what they want. They want to do. And he was just off his head after that race. Yeah. He was full of confidence. Loved it. We looked at the calendar and there aren't too many more options at that staying trip for him coming up. So we just threw a nomination and I looked at the acceptances and thought, you know what? There's nothing that really scares me in that race. Um, if he could go there and run a really nice placing, that would be brilliant. Then we can give him a little freshen and, uh, and go again. But I think it's, it's a race that shapes up well for him. I think on the backup, he runs so well. He's a tough sound horse. That's just very happy at the moment and absolutely glowing. And I think he'll let, he'll peak again on that in that run.
Speaker 2If I gave you a hundred dollars this weekend, what would you do with it?
Speaker 6Charlotte? Oh, if I had a hundred dollars, I'd probably go, nah, you'd have to go all up Concord Connie when you, but it doesn't give you much of a return. So maybe throw in a, throw in a place for a cable dancer into a, into a win for Concord Connie.
Speaker 2Concours Connie. So race one, number two, Cable Dance at the place in the race 10 number four concord connie the win you've got some nice chances at packing them tomorrow night like jessie gazzarati's in each way hope along with favor the bold you got fatty finn as well in race number seven would you be backing any of those
Speaker 6charlotte i think gazzarati his the only question mark i have is he put in a bit of a lackluster in between run trial um but i i think there were just a couple of muscle issues there and he's come through that well but i am skeptical but i still think that second up packing him 1400 he's um blown the cobwebs away last start and i think i think he'll go well there'll be a much improved uh improved showing from him he did run a good first up running second but i think he'll be a good chance um we've also got uh as you said favor the bold for a new owner and the esplands and okay he's a lovely horse uh i think he'll go pretty well first up over a thousand he's very sharp in his work he's got a lot of potential he's got a lot of potential he's got a lot of he's a big horse uh so we've still got to see him do it on race day for us but i think he's been trying pretty well and uh i i think jet standing on board will be a good uh good jockey for him nice and strong in the final stages so
Speaker 2that's race six number four favor the bold at packing him there tomorrow night charlotte you go and get them um concord connie and the salmon steaks and then go and win that new zealand cup
Speaker 6and then we look out for yes yoshi at moe on sunday i think he's a good bet too all
Speaker 2right then i forgot about yes yoshi so he's ready to fire as well
Speaker 6yeah we've got a big weekend i wish there were two of me but
Speaker 2anyway good on you charlotte thanks for that we appreciate you coming on giddy
Speaker 6up thank you gareth there's
Speaker 2charlotte littlefield 47 minutes past eight looking forward to catching up with our next guest we're going to wa they're up nice and early in the west of course it's 5 47 over there and dan pierce will be joining me next to run through his runners there on saturday at ascot including rock fest who's the dollar 70 favorite for the rj peters and many say he's the horse that if he does win the rj peters he's the one to beat in the railway stakes the week later
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Speaker 2hall welcome back to giddy up this is giddy up stable mail i love this meeting at ascot on saturday it's the open opening day of the pinnacles but there's so much on the line especially for that last race the rj peters stakes ironically it's been a race that bob peters has sent some of his better progressive gallopers in this race knowing that they needed to win to get into the railway stakes which is the most famous race in western australia the cosmic crusader he was unlucky last year he couldn't get a star in the railway stakes and then of course he won the northerly later on in the 185 favorite with bet 365 and the rj peters and talking to our experts like peter anthonis and terry layton there yesterday if this horse can win the rj peters they believe he is the horse to beat in the railway stakes the week later and his co-trainer dan pierce joins us here nice and early in west uh in western australia this morning uh dan good morning to you morning mate how are you good thank you mate how is rock fest um is he ready to go
Speaker 7yeah look he's in really good order he's had a faultless preparation um he's a horse that obviously has excited us for a long time now so uh so yeah look it's great to see him back at the races after his injury and uh and doing what he's doing he had
Speaker 2some great jewels with king of light last preparation do you think he's made up the necessary ground on that galloper this time around of course he is the favorite for the railway stakes you don't meet him on saturday but he seems to be the benchmark according to the market there um heading to the railway stakes yeah i
Speaker 7think our bloke's done a lot of maturing both physically and mentally um he's uh he's um obviously had that uh lay off with uh with the injury but uh but he's back in really good order and uh yeah i think uh he's certainly uh improved off last preparation so it'll be really interesting to see those two uh line up against each
Speaker 2other again i reckon wa's got some underrated stains and i reckon awesome rock is one of those he does a good job he can find a good horse can't he
Speaker 7yeah we've had outspoken lad as well he's been he's been an old warhorse for the stable so uh so yeah look uh they certainly uh can bat above their average for sure
Speaker 2so where does rock fest get to in the run it's a lovely gate for him it looks like on paper anyway
Speaker 7oh that's the beauty we've got chris knows him really well now so he'll find him find himself a a soft run and uh and he's showed that electric turn of foot that he uh he can pick up and uh uh and get himself out of trouble so uh so yeah look i think um chris or chris or some that up but he'll be uh he'll be sort of midfield and uh and uh building into the race and how will
Speaker 2he enjoy the quick backup if he we don't want to get ahead of ourselves but if he does win there on saturday heading towards the railway stakes oh
Speaker 7he'll be fine he's um he's pretty hardy he spends a fair bit of time down at the beach so uh we obviously wouldn't have to do much in between i'd say he'll be heading down the beach most days um but uh but yeah obviously get the job done on saturday first
Speaker 2yeah the colonel reads you got talk and co the feeling that was placed of course in the middle of the night and he's got a lot of work to do and he's got a lot of work to do in the quokka in april um she's got a tough gate to overcome but as peter anthony said there yesterday she's been underrated in the market i reckon for a winner bono i think you can get around 17 for her with bet 365 so how has she come back you think this prep oh she's come
Speaker 7back really good i mean we work with her every day but uh even even me on the on the screen there when she won first up she just looks like such a brute like um when she when she launches uh the top of the straight she uh you know her shoulders and just the size of her is is impressive um but uh yeah like she's uh she's in really good order just drawn that little bit sticky so uh so yeah she'll probably get back off of them and uh she'll be rattling down the outside um and uh set setting up for an exciting uh run in two weeks time in
Speaker 2the winter bottom you're confident she's better than a horse like a basset hound who's the favorite and the i guess the x factor heading towards the colonel reeves
Speaker 7yeah well that's it he's the unknown isn't he so he's he's bloody exciting um uh so uh so yeah we'll have to see that um it'll be exciting when they line up but uh yeah we couldn't be happier with our girl and i think she's gone to another level from from last preparation um obviously third in a um quokka and then across to south australia and she wasn't beaten far when in the worst part of the track you know goodwood so uh so yeah look she's she's uh very exciting and and we're we're looking forward to this weekend but really looking forward to two weeks time hoping we can go one better than we did with the vital silver um running uh running second in uh 2019 um 2019 yeah so um yeah so yeah we need to tick off that group one we've run two seconds in group one so uh it's just been eluding us
Speaker 2this is your time i reckon mate your team's flying along with benny and um geez you've got some nice chances heading towards the pinnacles defending a proper rata in the first race should we bet there
Speaker 7oh they're both going really well um probably obviously the younger uh the younger of the two and the uh probably the more progressive but uh but geez defending uh was uh was stiff the other day i thought he was home um so uh both racing in really good
Speaker 2order famous day and your best chance there in
Speaker 7race five yeah i think so he's um he's going well um he's uh he's been racing well without a huge amount of luck so uh so yeah he's he deserves to win one of um soon and
Speaker 2coz i am it's a it's a good placid arc and coz i am got a few weeks next to her name um she's a villi by i'm invincible can you see her improving there on saturday yeah definitely
Speaker 7look she's um she won two from two in her first race preparations she was a high price philly we bought from the uh sydney easter sale uh won two from two and come back and we've been really excited about her all preparation and and it's just had no luck run up backsides both races uh this prep so uh so look she's certainly one that you could see um getting and uh and rattling late um her work's been fantastic so uh so yeah no no knock on her just um uh just not not much luck this preparation if i gave you
Speaker 2a hundred dollars what would you do with it this weekend dan oh let's
Speaker 7be really risky and go rock fest we'll hit it with confidence all right
Speaker 2then um dollar 85 that'll do us to pay for about i don't know if we can get a round of beers for if we make 85 dollars these days maybe buy a carton buy a cart to celebrate yes and then we'll we'll get into the um the railway stakes with rock fair so that's race 10 number 10 looks like it's a beautiful morning mate it's what i'm closing in on six o'clock there so you're up nice and early ready to go yeah they
Speaker 7just just walked back in on their second group so uh so yeah like we we obviously train off course so we follow the daylight we've um we don't have lights on the track so this time of year we like to uh get started early we'll do a beach trip at the end of the morning so uh so yeah no it's a it's a good time of year everyone's excited and uh looking forward to uh to the pinnacles um obviously first day on saturday yeah you go
Speaker 2and get a mate thanks for joining us here on giddy up
Speaker 7thanks mate cheers there's dan
Speaker 2pierce there they have got some team and she's a great chance talking co it's 17 for a winner bottom um i reckon she can win the colonel reeves as well on saturday let's take a break tage where to join us after nine o'clock
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Speaker 2044 999-736-7000. Great to have your company this Thursday morning. It's right on nine o'clock. We'll continue on Giddy Up Stable Mail. The superstar from Ballarat, Tage Weir, will join us in just a moment. Pete Snowden will have a chat to us. We've got Mitch Pateman for Giddy Up Stable Mail in Western Australia. We'll have him on the show after 11 o'clock Eastern time. Of course, eight o'clock in Western Australia. We'll catch up with Richard Jolly as well. And we're also going to catch up with Andy Maciff, the boss of Godolphin in Australia, to have a chat about Baywack, who is the favourite for the CFL Stakes. But she's one of my favourites, Tage Weir. She's kicking plenty of goals at the moment. She's got a couple of progressive types in her backyard with Billy Card, who was excellent to take out a race there during the Flemington Carnival on Melbourne Cup Day. And she's got the favourite, Magnus Intentia, who goes around the Sandhouse. He was sensational there at Geelong the other day, winning by a big margin. Tage joins us here on Giddy Up. Hello, Tage. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 8Good morning, guys. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2It's been some time, hasn't it? You've had a pretty good spring, I reckon.
Speaker 8It's been amazing. You know, I couldn't have scripted this. You know, I'm just so blessed. And, you know, I've got some really nice owners, people, horses, staff behind me. So, yeah, it's a big credit to us all.
Speaker 2How good is this Billy Card?
Speaker 8Oh, she's pretty good. I knew that she had a bit of ability at Kilmore, but obviously the race at Melbourne Cup Day, I thought might have just got the better of her, you know, just experience and the whole atmosphere and everything. But, gee, she let rip. And, you know, that's a horse that we know at home. And she's got such a beautiful turn of foot. She's very clean-winded. And, yeah, no, she was super.
Speaker 2Yeah, she exploded late. And I loved her action the last furlough. So, what do you do with her next?
Speaker 8She's going to go to that, the Melbourne Classic. I think it's two weeks Saturday at Sandown. So, all being well, obviously. She's come through that run at Flemington fantastic. She's just so tough. She eats up her dinner every night. And, you know, providing she has a good two weeks, that's where we'll head. And then we'll give her a little let-up. And then hopefully target a few nice races in the autumn, which is pretty exciting.
Speaker 2So, she's an Oaks filler, you reckon, in the autumn?
Speaker 8Oh, I think so. Look, I don't want to get ahead of myself. No. No. No. No. No. That's pretty big. But she's just got all the credentials for that. She's got such a good turn of foot. She relaxes in running. Yeah. And she's just so clean-winded. So, if you can do those sorts of things, I think she's, yeah, she'll be there. So, it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2And Gamma Dale, Patty might join her on the classic path in the autumn. He's the horse that everyone will remember, I reckon, as the horse that was punted there during that Warrnambool Carnival and didn't go to plan. But, obviously, he showed ability from the get-go. And he was a good winner there yesterday at Ballarat.
Speaker 8Yeah, he was super. Look at, I look back at Warrnambool and I think he probably, he just wasn't ready. He was still a cult then. The heavier track, I don't think, suited him. And I think the experience just got all the better of him. We took him here two weeks later. He got scratched at the gate. So, I thought, right, we'll get you gelded. And he's just come back a different horse. He's still definitely doing things wrong. And he's not a finished product. But he'll be a really nice horse in the autumn as well.
Speaker 2How good is this three-year-old, Magnus Intentia? This son of written bite. He's slightly raced three starts. And his first victory came at Geelong there the other day. And he just didn't win. He bolted home. Like, how good is he?
Speaker 8Yeah, he's pretty cool, you know. Like, he's a horse that he's probably taken a little bit to get where we want him to. You know, just with jump outs and everything like that. He had the ultimate gear change as well. He got gelded and it did him the world of good as well. So, he's a really. He's a really nice horse as well. But, look, I thought he'd go good on Saturday. But I didn't think he'd put him away like that. So, that was, yeah, that was pretty exciting.
Speaker 2Yeah, so he's on the quick backup. Do you think he can take up this challenge? And, obviously, it's a big step up in class. And he does go to the mile. But the market believes he can run a big race.
Speaker 8Yeah, I think he do. I'm trying to not get ahead of myself. I just want to take it all as it comes. And it's such a big step for me and for the horse, you know. But, look, he's just in such good order. Like, he's working here at home. We haven't had to do all that much with him since Saturday. Just keep him happy. Get him up in the day yards every day with some sun on his back. And just keep him happy. And he's just so well. He looks a bloody picture. And, you know, he's just, yeah, he's just in really good order. So, look, it's a massive step up on Saturday. But we may as well have a crack while we've got a horse there.
Speaker 2A hundred percent, Tage. I love looking at these ownership people and the ownership of different horses. And especially. Especially your horses. Because they look like there's some characters there. So, obviously, it looks like you're the first owner. And then Bonnie, your sister, might be the second owner. Yep. And then you've got Long Drive to Catch Fish. Long Drive to Catch Fish. Can you tell us a little bit about that syndicate?
Speaker 8Oh, there's some bloody scallywags in this horse, I tell you. No, there is some fun people involved in this horse. They're a group of Bendigo boys at Long Drive to Catch Fish. And there's about a group of five of them. And I said in the update the other day, I said, you better get your suits ready, boys, because we're going to town. And, oh, God, they'll be feral.
Speaker 2Oh, look out. You've got the Golden Table, Laugh Out Loud Racing, and then May at the Bulls. So, I bloody love it. We wish you the best of luck, Tage. If I gave you $100 this weekend, what would you do with it?
Speaker 8Look, I think Sky Electric, if he gets a run in the Dunco Cup on Saturday, I think he'll be. I think he'll be a really nice each-way chance. He's been second in the Avoca and the Witchy Proof Cup, and the tracks probably just didn't suit him. But I do think that the horse will go really well this weekend if he can just slot in there and get a run.
Speaker 2Sky Electric, that's race eight in the Dunco Cup. I'm heading to Dunco for the first time this weekend. Have you got anything else for us there? Because we'll need a few winners.
Speaker 8No, I've got another horse, Black Inquiry. She raced at Swan Hill a couple of weeks ago. She's a nice horse. I think that, yeah, she's. Probably limited in what she can sort of do, but she is in really good order, and she ran really well at Swan Hill last start. So, yeah, she'd be one to keep an eye on. But, yeah, Sky Electric, I'm hoping for a Ford going on Saturday.
Speaker 2And we see your partner, Will Gordon, the superstar jock who's out injured at the moment. We all know he's got a knee brace on. So, how's he training on? Are you happy with his progress? Yeah, I reckon you'll be looking forward to getting him back to the races.
Speaker 8Yeah, I need to get him back on the horses and at track work. Yes. And that's. I'm missing my main track work rider, and I've had to pull the boots out again, and I'm not so happy about that. Okay. No, look, he's great. He's probably a few steps ahead of what the surgeons and whatnot thought he would be. He's off and walking now. So, he's my chief update man now. He just updates all the owners and just. Yeah, but he's going good. He's just. Yeah, it's going to be a bit of a long road to recovery for old Willie G.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's not getting used to this training caper, is he?
Speaker 8He does like it. You know, he does like seeing the progress and whatnot, but, no, he can stay in his lane, and I'll stay in mine for the time being.
Speaker 2I'll look forward to him getting back onto the water walker, and then he'll be ready to go before you know it. So. Yeah, that's it. Good on you, Tage. You go and get them at Dunkel, but go and win that Sandown Guineas on Saturday. Thank you so much, guys. There we go. That's Tage Weir. Peter Snowden joins us here on Giddy Up. G'day, Pete. G'day, how are you? Good, thank you, mate. Amerikea, I think how you pronounce it. I always struggle with her name, but she's pretty good, and she won nicely first up there the other day. Can she win at Newcastle on Saturday?
Speaker 9Yeah, I hope so, mate. We've seen her. She does get good fresh, and in other preparations, she's tended to sort of lighten off and just lose a bit of form with it, but I think she's a bit of a. She's an older man now, and she's certainly holding together a lot better this time, eating a lot more than she did before, and pulled off a treat from Wave Farm, so I'm quite confident she's going to run well again.
Speaker 2Beautiful. Then we go to race number six, and you've got an each-way chance there in Live, who was good the other day, I thought, there at Warwick Farm as well. Can she go one better? I know this is tougher on Saturday.
Speaker 9Yeah, she's up a fair bit of grade, but she's also down in weight as well, but you're right. I thought her run last week against a pretty handy horse was very, very good. She got stopped dead in the tracks by the 150 go, and it's very hard to pick yourself up and come again, and that she did, so I was really happy to see that. She's always shown good form at home, and she has been in state place as a three-year-old, although that's her third start. I gave her the other day, and it was by far her best run. We added Winkies to her gear, and I think that's really improved us. The work's been great. She's drawn a little bit sticky, but no weight on her back, and she's certainly come through that last run in good order and won still a stronger race, but the horse that beat her the other day has got huge reps on it, so I was pretty pleased with what she did.
Speaker 2And then King of Rousseau goes around in the Hunter over the 1,300 metres, worth a lot of money. He will be fourth up, but I guess this is a drop in class for him as well,
Speaker 9Saturday. His runs have been really good, too. If you watched his last start, he had no luck at all, and, gee, he looked a big threat at the furlong, and he's got three lengths now that most of the field was Everest horses, so I thought he ran particularly well, and lovely race for him. The draw is a bit iffy, but he does get back anyway, and he's no good going drawing inside. So, in a way, it's probably not too bad, but just need a bit of luck early to find a nice spot. If we get that good spot, well, he's definitely there to run well.
Speaker 2Yeah, I loved him there the other day there, Pete. The only concern than I have for him is that But that bloody gate from gate 16, history tells you on Hunter Day, it's been difficult to make up ground, really.
Speaker 9Yeah, we used to have a softer word than what I say when I see the gate.
Speaker 2It's just so frustrating, isn't it? Because you watch him last start and you think, sure, he's going to be a big chance in the Hunter. And then you get that gate and you just hope the track plays fair.
Speaker 9Yeah, and look, the track is a great track, Newcastle, as we all know. And the bit of rain we had about, I think, five or six would be perfect for him. So just a little bit of luck in running. We get that bit of luck, he's certainly going well enough to run really well.
Speaker 2Can you win with threesome or divine offering there at Canterbury tomorrow night?
Speaker 9Yeah, I'll probably run divine offering. He's definitely a good each-way chance. And threesome, I've accepted with him at Kimble on Saturday. I've probably taken there if he draws okay. But he is definitely an each-way chance, divine offering on Friday night.
Speaker 2All right, if I gave you $100 this weekend, Pete, what would you do with it? I think I'd stick with him, yeah. All right, beautiful. Race five, number three there at Newcastle. Thanks for your time, as always. Cheers, mate, anytime. There's the champion trainer, Peter Snowden. 11 minutes past nine, we're going to take a break. Louis Clifton sent me a text message. What's he said? Peter Snowden next? Yeah, he just went. Who's after Pete Snowden? Andy Maciff, the boss of Godolphin Australia, will be joining me straight after this. Now, some news is coming through from Trent Mason Howder that Small Fry's passed the inspection today from the RV vet. So he is right to go, the favourite and the zipping classic, of course, the international horse there for Joseph O'Brien. This will be his last run for Joseph O'Brien before he heads to Philip and Tommy Stokes' yard. And as Trent Mason Howder reported there yesterday, Enfidjar, the horse that was placed in the Caulfield Cup, trained by Roger Varian, has been purchased by Aussie Care and His Connections, and will be heading to Anthony and Sam Friedman for his campaign next year. So that is interesting. So Enfidjar heading to Anthony and Sam Friedman. And Wyndark sees the other interesting runner. Obviously, he had big raps on him before he came out. He went to Australia. And he was one of the favourites for the Caulfield Cup. He didn't fire there. He didn't fire in the Melbourne Cup. But the mail is, obviously, he's part owned by Australian Bloodstock. The mail is that he might be heading to Will and Richard Friedman. So, yeah, that is interesting as well. Wyndark see the horse I'm talking about there. Andy Macketh joins us. The Codolphin, of course, have got Vavewack going around the C4 stakes over his favourites. Favourite distance, the 1,400 metres. He does look tough to beat. James MacDonald rides. And he is the favourite with Bet365. And Andy Macketh joins us here on Giddy Up. G'day, Andy. Morning, Gareth. Looks a lovely race for him, doesn't it? At the end of the spring, 1,400 metres around Sandown, he'll get his opportunity to win another Group 1.
Speaker 10Oh, we can't really hope. Yeah, it does look a good race. He's got a great record at 1,400. He seems to be able to control a good tempo. Around that trip, around that distance run. He's unbeaten at 1,400 and he's a triple Group 1 winner at 1,400. So he certainly enjoys that trip. He can run good sectionals around that course. And, you know, hopefully he's there when the whips are cracking.
Speaker 2How do you think he'll enjoy Sandown? Obviously, it's a big, spacious track and it's only a small field. So it'll be fascinating to see how this all unfolds there, I reckon, on Saturday.
Speaker 10It's a great track. It really is. I mean, this is. This used to be the traditional Sandown-Kinney-Sandown Classic day that was always the week after Flemington. So it's nice to get back there, really. We've had some good success over the journey back in the days with Darley and Peter Snowden all the way through. So it's been a happy hunting ground for us. So I hope it continues this Saturday.
Speaker 2Baywack, were you happy with him in the Golden Eagle?
Speaker 10Yeah, I thought he was pretty good. The 1,500's clearly a little bit of a. A bit of a risk for him. He seems to be really. That 1,400 range is spot on for him. As I said, he's unbeaten at that range, or that trip. At 1,500, we did try him in the Ryder last year. Obviously, he ran into Autumn Glow in that race, who's particularly good. Very, very good. So, yeah, I think we've got some confidence going into Saturday. I thought his run, as you said, as you asked, his run in the Eagle was good. And, you know, I thought for a moment there, he kicked clear. He just didn't sort of get away from them enough. So, you know, that's the benefit of that 1,400. He can go at a sectional where he's going quick enough that he can control the race, but he maintains those sectionals all the way through the line. And maybe at 1,500, you're trying to go a touch slower to try and give yourself that kick. And, you know, he's not quite the miler, but, yeah, we'll see on Saturday, I suppose.
Speaker 2What do you do with him? I know you don't want to get ahead of yourself, but there's been talk that you might take him on an international path. Is that still the plan, or do you think there's enough for him in this country?
Speaker 10You know, I think the international path's tricky with him because of that distance range. I can't think of a lot of 1,400-metre races overseas. He's gone up the straight a few times and hasn't quite worked out for him. We've dropped him back to 1,200 a few times that hasn't quite worked out, so 1,400 looks very much his wheelhouse. So there's obviously the race on Saturday. There's races like the Futurity in the autumn, and then there's races like the Apollo maybe in Sydney, or there's even a 1,300 like the Canterbury. There's the 1,400, and then you go, if you happen to go around another year, there's the 1,400 that he's already competed in. So there seems to be a good 1,400-metre program in this country. And if I think abroad, there's nothing that sort of seems to be a good 1,400-metre program. It stands out that says, oh, this is the perfect 1,400-metre race. I might be wrong. I haven't looked that hard. But there's the old cause in Dubai, which is 1,200, and there's obviously those straight race sprints at Royal Ascot, et cetera. And then I think places like Hong Kong are very much sprints, and they're very much KU rising as well. So yeah, it would feel like he's better suited in Australia.
Speaker 2Just having a look at the market for the C4 stakes, you've got Baywack at 340, Cleese, who beat some of our best sprinters in the Russell boarding. Headwall and Cabelas were third. Jimmy Starr was in that race. He's at $7, stepping up slightly in trip to the 1,400. Are you surprised with the difference between your two horses in the market there? One's at $7, one's at 340?
Speaker 10It's probably the draw, I'd say, Gareth. I mean, if he'd drawn in two, you know, to get that gun run that he got in the Russell, maybe he's more like a $5 chance. So he's going to have to probably go back from eight and get past horses like Jimmy Starr and Angel Capital that are probably going to settle in front of him. So that's probably how the market reads it, that he's going to have to be the one sweeping from the back, which, as you said, is a big open track. It might actually be the right rate. He might actually get the right run. So I'm not surprised at the quote, but I think he'll be very competitive by the same token.
Speaker 2He's been a good horse, hasn't he, Pericles? Like a seven-year-old, gilded by Street Boss, and he's won nearly $9 million now.
Speaker 10Well, nearly 10, because he got the big bonus as well for running, yeah, for running on the Sydney stakes into the Russell boarding and winning it. So I think that prize money goes on into December or whatever when that gets allocated. So he's more like 10. So he's been a wonderful horse. Yeah, fantastic. He was a homebred there at Norfolk Park in Victoria, and he's done a great job. He's done a great job for that farm and for the Stedman Street Boss.
Speaker 2Can Milson's point win the Sandown Guineas?
Speaker 10I think he's in with a shot. I think his form's pretty – I thought he was good the other day. He might have just got anchored by the top weight. He was very good the start before, clearly, at the big quote. He drew on ideally. He'll get a good run. He's got Zara on board. So I think he's in the mix. There's some different form lines coming in, but that horse of Tage Weir's was very impressive. I haven't watched that because we had one in, the race that we talked a bit of, and that horse pants dust. So, yeah, I think it'll be an interesting race. It's nice to get back to set weights, given that he's got a bit of a high rating around this grade. Like he's an 80-rater against a lot of those horses in the 60s. So he's certainly on ratings, looks a good chance. That's a good jockey, in-form trainer, nice barrier draw. First try on the mile, but he was good the other day, I thought. So, hopefully, I think we can be in the mix.
Speaker 2That's good to know because, when you have a look at a Geelong meeting on a Saturday, you wonder what, even though Magnus and Tenscher ran good time, who did he beat? But, obviously, if you've got a nice, progressive three-year-old that you had in that race, it might be a pretty handy form line. So it is going to be an intriguing Sandown Guineas come Saturday. And then this thoroughbred club stakes, worth a million dollars for these three-year-old fillies, and it is a strong race. Some nice fillies going around here, as you would expect for that prize money. You've got Sir Quint, who just won the gold medal. just went down, down the straight there as a short-priced favourite during the Flemington Carnival. And Semantics was good in the same race. Can you split those fillies there for us come Saturday?
Speaker 10I couldn't split them going into the Thursday meeting. Yeah. I sort of thought they, you know, I was hoping one of them would win and the other one would run second. So they ran second and third and got knocked off by Kieran's filly. But, yeah, I think Semantics is particularly smart. I think she's the filly who's got less experience. We've had a few issues with her here and there, but she's on the rise. I think she's hopefully a very, very smart filly, but I can't knock Sequin because she's there and she's genuine. So I still can't split them. I think long-term I'm hoping Semantics is a particularly smart filly as in a top-drawer one. So hopefully we're right there, but, you know, we'll see how we go on Saturday. But she's hopefully – but it's a very good race. Like, it's a proper race. So, yeah. It's interesting where they've programmed it. It's getting very good fillies. Maybe they need to potentially do a little program shift and move the Red Roses to Derby Day so there's two weeks in for these fillies. So those that run in the Coolmore have got two weeks in and those that run in the Red Roses have got two weeks in. Maybe that could be a program shift. But, yeah, it's a very good race for sure.
Speaker 2Do you think that these changes have worked by the MRC in Racing Victoria? Do you like the CFL Stakes where it is right now?
Speaker 10Yeah, I do, actually. I didn't initially. No, I thought you – I thought I read that. Yeah, I think it's worked. I think the meeting's a great meeting. It is, isn't it? Yeah. And I actually like it in Sandown. So they – obviously, it's a Caulfield meeting, but for the fact that they're renovating the track there, so – and they would argue they get a better crowd and maybe a better turnover or whatever for Caulfield, and that's for, you know, them to argue and them to get right. But I particularly like Sandown. I think it's a great track. It's a great open spaces track. And I think to have a significant meeting at Sandown, a group one meeting at Sandown, it's pretty cool. So, yeah, I'm in favour.
Speaker 2Kirk Whalen, what do you make of his chances there with Joe Pryde preparing that galloper and gets the blinkers the first time in that final event there at Newcastle Saturday?
Speaker 10Yeah, he's got to get back in the game. He was running – his last start, we were pretty confident he'd go very close, and he just didn't really go. So he was – He was meant to be going that into the Hunter. Yep. And Joe just decided, well, he just was a bit playing last start, so let's go to the bench and I'll go for him instead, which is, you know, Joe's conserving that, and he'd rather get his horses winning than, you know, hoping to run well in races they can't win. So, yeah, hoping he can turn his form around. He's a pretty smart horse on his day. Probably needs a little bit of give in the track, but – But when he goes, he flies. But he does need to get back in the game, so a little bit on the fence with him.
Speaker 2When Michael Friedman gives you an update on Marath, does he tell Sheikh Mohammed that we need to put Marath into our quatties or not?
Speaker 10Probably. Yeah. Oh, I will. Yeah, I will. I'll put all of them into the quatties because you never know with Nelson's point scenario, right? Yes, yes, yes. I will. She's dropping back from stage. She's a mare that we've thought or hoped, which was stakes class. Yeah. And she kept her going. She's obviously an older mare in terms of breeding portfolio. So we were hoping that she could find a stakes win somewhere. So, yeah, I think this is a nice race for her. She's down in her weight. So not going badly, just finding, you know, that higher grade a bit sharp. So back to benchmark grade, she can figure.
Speaker 2This is nearly your second season. We're halfway through your second season from the change in model regarding your race horses. So we're going to talk a little bit more about that. We're going to talk a little bit more about that. How do you think it's going now? Like, obviously, you've had great success in doing that. How do you think the second season has gone compared to the first?
Speaker 10We probably haven't got the depth. So we don't have the depth in the three-year-old group at this stage, which, you know, it just happens. We've had years before where I remember the year of broadsiding and traffic warden. We really had those two. And then after the spring, it was only broadsiding, we went to Rose Hill Guineas and traffic warden didn't win again. So, yeah, it's from crop to crop. But that four-year-old crop was a particularly good crop. So it was a good year to probably launch the changes, as it turns out. Horses like Tempted and Bybocked and Tentiris, who was out anyway. Tentiris was being trained by the Freedmen's anyway. So Green Spaces won a derby. So there was obviously a really deep, big crop. The three-year-old crop hasn't looked as good as yet, clearly. But, yeah, there are some nice horses there as well. Courting ran really well in the Oaks. I think those two fillies we talked about, Seaclands and Semantics, look really nice fillies. We've got some hope for a couple of others. I think our best three-year-old is a filly called Medicinal, who unfortunately didn't get to the spring. She had a slight setback. So she's back in work for the Hayes team now. So she's the sort of filly that could be there. In a big way, in the autumn, we had another filly called Fondus, the Frankel filly that Chris Waller's got, who also had a little bit of an issue, so missed the spring. So I think we probably didn't quite have as deep a three-year-old year, but that happens. But all in all, very pleased with it. Horses that are going well are hitting the board in the right races. The winter race at the Everest was extraordinary, great for the brand, great for Dubai, great for Emirates, great for Sydney. It's great for everything, it was a great day. So all in all, very pleased, trainers are really great to deal with. So it's been going well. It'd be nice to find another two-year-old. And obviously, they're about to start to really hit the track around the place. We've got plenty of animals that we like. So there's also a new wave of what we're doing in the stallion business, the animals coming through. So yeah, it's exciting times. And to answer your question, I'm pleased with how it's going.
Speaker 2Just with that Everest victory, the significance for that, for golf, for Godolphin Australia and the impact that had with Sheikh Mohammed and the Dubai team and the team in England because I reckon it happened on that weekend or was that day where Godolphin on Champions Day had a big day as well? It was probably nearly one of the greatest days in Godolphin history, which is saying something really with the success they had on that day around the world.
Speaker 10It was deemed that. There was some talk that this is one of the great days in Godolphin's racing history. So obviously they had a magnificent day in England that night for us, that day for them but yeah the the everest victory was was very significant it was it reached all parts of the godolphin business um a lot of messages coming out of america out of england and dubai so it was um it was certainly noticed it was followed i think it was made more significant by tempted defeating the highest rated horse in the world so that was that was something that not only was it a, you know, the richest race on turf, I think that has massive significance. I think then defeating the highest rated horse as well had massive significance. So to do it, um, in those, in that circumstances was particularly, uh, rewarding and noticing. And, um, yeah, it was certainly, certainly seen by all. So, um, yeah, really significant day.
Speaker 2Um, and how was she after that effort there in the champion sprint when her and Jolly Star looked like they were just in the wrong part of the track. I know she pulled up with a bit of a bleed as well, reading the stewards report. So how is she after all of that? Yeah, she's good.
Speaker 10She's headed back to the farm. She came out of it pretty well. She's a very tough, robust filly. So, yeah, she's fine. So whether it was a little bit track-related, a little bit flat, it's hard to come off a massive peak, obviously. We've looked after her in every prep and she had the three runs last spring culminating in the Everest. She had the three runs in the autumn culminating in the Arab field after winning the Surround. And then she'd had the three runs culminating in the Everest and it was three weeks into this race. So it seems tough in hindsight to do the Everest and then try and peak again at Flemington. Certainly we've found it difficult with our three-year-olds. So any three-year-old that's run to then go to the Coolmore, They've run pretty ordinary. Also like Cylinder, he ran a great fifth in the Everest and started a favour in the Cornwall and Panamon Starks. We certainly put the slows on wanting to run a three-year-old in both, the Everest and the Cornwall. We've tried it a few times and they haven't run well as a result. Yeah, I wonder if we sort of thought the extra week might be enough. So is it a little bit related to, like her run in the Everest was enormous. She ran 1.8 and change on a rain-affected track, having led early, handed up to speed to the two runners in front. They dropped off and ran last and second last. She hit the front of the top of the straight and kicked clear and was on empty, starting off the best horse in the world. So she put up an extraordinary effort to win the Everest and maybe it left her a little flat. Kieran was happy with her going in, but you live and you learn and maybe you wouldn't do it again. But maybe that extra week for some of them might work into the CF4 if you're going to run again. she would go to seven, but if you were, maybe that's a better path. But, you know, we'll see. Every horse is different, and everyone will judge their, you know, how they're going to place their horses differently. But, yeah, we're still.
Speaker 2It just looked a weird race when you saw Jolly Star and Tempted out on that part of the track, and you get beat by plaintiffs. Like, in what world does that happen? I don't know if it happened ever again.
Speaker 10I mean, in fairness, there's been a bit of talk they didn't walk the track. In fairness, Chad came out and said they're there to be outside, but it's the one place we don't want to be. I said, okay, that's fine. So he said, we'll follow the speed and chime in when we want to, but he was very confident that she'll run well and said, but the one place we don't want to be is on the outside rail, anywhere near the outside rail. So as the race unfolded, I'm thinking, that went well. That's not going to plan. Whether James was conscious of saying, I'll try and keep Tempted out there a bit. Yeah. I don't know. There's probably a little bit in that. Jockeys aren't, a jockey like James McDonald knows what he's doing. So whether or not he decided, I'm going to try and just keep her to my right. So if I can beat her home, I should be winning. I don't know. But then at the same time, then as he came out, Cabalas took him further out. So they all just ended up there. And Mark and the other riders quickly, you can watch, and they ducked at the rate of knots back to the inside and away they went. They couldn't believe their luck, really.
Speaker 2Correct. Tactically, it worked out for them. That's the horse race. It is. So would you go overseas with her down the straight still? Yeah, I thought she handled the straight pretty well.
Speaker 10I don't think the straight got her beaten. Okay. So we book our tickets to Royal
Speaker 2Ascot still then, Andy?
Speaker 10I think so, yeah. I think so. I mean, we'll probably want to bring her back through the lightning. She's belling in Melbourne now, as in when Victoria, the farm in Victoria, given that that's where she was. So she'll probably come through the Ma Victorian, base, and hopefully log into the lightning, something like that. So all going well as she puts her run up in the lightning. Then we can say we've got confidence with the straight. If she doesn't, we might have to head back to Randwick, where she just adores it. So she pretty much doesn't get beaten at Randwick. So if she remains a Randwick specialist and remains almost unbeaten there, well, life will be pretty good too.
Speaker 2Would you miss the TJ then with you if you go to Royal Ascot?
Speaker 10I don't know. No. Yeah, probably, because I think she's going to go to Royal Ascot, she'd go to Dubai. Dubai is probably a bigger priority, if not a bigger priority for us, than Royal Ascot. I think to showcase her in Dubai would be, showcase anything in Dubai is high on our priority list. So if we can find a horse within our system that suits Dubai, we'd like to get any horse there. I think the World Cup meetings are a fantastic meeting. I've been only the once, but I loved the night. I think it's a great night of racing and it's clearly dear to our founder and dear to our business. So if we can find any horse to go to Dubai, that can be, you've got to take a real one there. You've got to take really good horses there. So if we've got horses that suit Dubai, we'd love to go there. And then it seems that the best path home is through England. So therefore, Royal Ascot becomes a likely option after Dubai.
Speaker 2I'm pretty sure the boss. So you wouldn't hook her in Dubai.
Speaker 10You wouldn't hook her in Melbourne. You wouldn't hook her in Australian racing. You'd have a run or two and then head to Dubai and then to Ascot and then hopefully come somehow get home for the Everest like Jolly started.
Speaker 2I'm pretty sure the boss would like to see the horse to beat Koeing Rising that he owns anyway in his own backyard to show all of his mates. So there you go. That's a terrific update with all of your horses. Golden Hall, I forgot to ask you, this is some text messages coming through. A filly by Pilelli. Pilelli won a winter bottom, I reckon, didn't he? A big chestnut flushed down the outside all those years ago.
Speaker 10He did. He's a very good horse, Pilelli. He was. So it was a very good tour. It was actually a pre-Christmas tour. I won two races pre-Christmas. Ended up being a kindergarten winner and a great three. I won a Roman console. He was a very, very smart sprinter. So that's his first runner. Kieran's got a bit of time for us. So it's exciting to see him with some stock on the track.
Speaker 2So hopefully she can run well. If I gave you $100 this weekend, Andy, what would you do with it? Is that to be Saturday? No, it can be any time, really.
Speaker 10Probably have $100 on resident on Friday at Geelong.
Speaker 2Beautiful. Resident. All right, that'll do us. That's at Geelong for the Hayes boys. I'm just having a look what race that is at Geelong there on Friday for our listeners. It'll be in the middle part. Where are they? I'll get it up now. So it'll be Geelong. Geelong. Jeez, my computer's loading. It always takes me a little bit of time. But anyway, resident. Here we go. Race two, number five. Beautiful. That will do us nicely. Resident at Geelong. Hey, thanks for that, mate. We appreciate you coming on. Well done with the spring, especially with Tempted and the job that she was able to do for Godolphin Australia there during the spring carnival. And we appreciate you coming on Giddyup on this Thursday morning. Pleasure. Thanks, Gareth. There's Andy. Andy Maciff, the managing director of Godolphin Australia. 37 minutes past nine. Gator's next. David Gately with Gator's game plan.
Speaker 1This is Giddyup with Gareth Hall. Welcome back to Giddyup.
Speaker 2Don't forget, with Bet365, you get a winning boost on the runner of your choice across races one and four at Sandow, Newcastle. And Ascot, all winnings paid in cash, subject to availability, eligible customers only, terms and conditions apply. What are you really gambling with? Tomorrow morning, we're live from Dunkeld. I can't wait for that. I've like, I spent a lot of time in Western Victoria and I hadn't had the privilege to head to Dunkeld for a cup meeting yet, but I'll get to do that this weekend. So we're live Friday morning and Saturday morning on SEN track. So we'll do Giddyup live. We'll do Giddyup live there tomorrow morning. Mark Hunter, he's coming with me. So I'm looking forward to that. We'll do the Hunter's Edge live from Dunkeld. Some news that have broke, the news that's broken this morning. Small Fry's right to go. He's passed his trot up there from the Racing Victoria event. So he'll be taking his place, the favourite in the Zipping Classic. So he is ready to go. So some news there that Small Fry has been past fit for the Zipping Classic. 41 minutes past nine. Get your questions in for our coach. David Gately on the Gareth's Horse & Hound text line 0499 736 736 because Gator's Game Plan is next here on this Thursday morning.
Speaker 1On Giddyup, it's time for Gator's Game Plan with David Gately.
Speaker 2David Gately. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome in. Our coach here on Giddyup, the one and the only David Gately. Gator, hello to you.
Speaker 11It's quite a dramatic intro. Hello to you, mate.
Speaker 2Now, coach, like, there's a lot of people, a lot of punters I've been talking to of late, and they go, I'm buggered after Flemington. But they're looking forward to Sandown. And, but it is, like, it is a testing time, really, isn't it, for us punters? It's been a long spring. But this is a really good meeting. It's Sandown to get us back off the canvas, I reckon, and get us excited on Saturday, where you've got a million-dollar Phillies race, which is a beauty. The CFL Stakes is a small but intriguing field, full of quality. And the Sipping Classic has small fry that was second to Point of Law and making up ground on Point of Law in the Geelong Cup, taking on the Caulfield Cup champ, Kingswood. So it's got all, and then you've got Concord Connie to finish it all off, who was second in the Group 1 Empire. So it's a beauty at Sandown on Saturday.
Speaker 11No, I agree with you. And I love what they've done with the programming here. Obviously, you know, there are a couple of years there where it's sort of, with greatest respect to the country, a couple of meetings, we love those as well. But it does feel like the cliff comes up a bit too quick. But this meeting is brilliant. First half's a bit midweek, but sure, we'll stick with the positives. Race five onwards is true here. We've got to have 10 races. So the, you know, at 37 Cup week, and I actually felt, still felt full of energy by race 37. It was amazing. But then Sunday morning, it felt like I'd done an Ironman. But we're all in the same boat, and we wouldn't have it any other way. It was outstanding.
Speaker 2Yeah, I've talked to a lot of people in this racing game. And then, like, after the Flemington Carnival, it does take it out of you, doesn't it? You think, wow, how am I going to find it? How am I going to find a few more lengths? But. I'm going to Dunkeld with Mark Hunter, so I'm sure I will this weekend anyway. But, and don't forget, tickets are just $15 for this C4 Stakes meeting. Obviously, it's the highlight at Group 1 level, but it's a terrific 10 race program, especially, as you just pointed out, Gator, towards the back end of that car. So we know the drill by now. We go through our key categories to try and set our game plan up to try and help us back plenty of winners on a Saturday, and the first of those categories is our key player the best bet of the weekend where are we going here
Speaker 11yeah look i'm a big concord connie fan i think i tipped her for the the tab empire rose uh in our in our preview show and yeah um she beat all bar one you know a long way out um i thought she'd measure right up and she did um she just found one better you know lady shenandoah absolutely airborne and too good for her she beat everything else and she beat everything else clearly including serpent bird and a few very very smart look it's just the perfect race for i think the summon stakes uh 1500 santa expecting the track to play well i think she's clearly the best for the day and i'm not as keen as i was sequined but pretty close to it but i won't mention i won't remind punters how that
Speaker 2turned out um it was tough to watch really i thought i was home too i thought she got the bobby but anyway i don't know
Speaker 11she didn't win that but anyway we we've seen the
Speaker 2movie before we have seen the movie and the best part about your best bet in concord connie we had charlotte littlefield on this morning and she is up and about and she said that she just had to keep on going with her because she's jumping out of her skin after the empire rose and dare i say it she definitely hasn't gone have hasn't gone backward and she might have gone forward just a little bit after that effort there in the empire
Speaker 11rose so well she was only third up wasn't she so it's not like you know this meeting and and as we get into cramming about you just got to be careful of those end of prep
Speaker 2sort of gallopers but she Toughest race for you to work out, the Long Division race. And the dogs are barking. They agree with you, I think. It's the Sandown Guineas. It's a tough race because you've got Magnus Intentia, who was dominant on Saturday at Geelong, and he's the $3.80 favourite. Star of Macedon will run home strongly again and be a Black Book course probably at $6.50. Milson's Point's an interesting runner at $8.00. And Harry Lyme, geez, we got a good push from Adrian Bott about this three-year-old this morning, and it's at $8.50 with Bet365. Different form lines everywhere you look here, Gator.
Speaker 11Yeah, really tough race. I don't think there's a she's an alibi amongst them, but there's some very good gallopers. I'm certainly not putting the slows on Star of Macedon. You know, I sort of was, you're intimating he's a bit of a gunner there. No, he might enjoy it.
Speaker 2Sandown looks like it could be his track as well, you would imagine.
Speaker 11Yeah, look. And I thought he was good the other day. I didn't expect him to be ridden forward and exposed at $800 from home. So I think he ran really well. I know he's our best bet and cost us a big parlay. But I thought he ran really well. Harry Lyme, yes, gap between runs latest was good. The barracks form obviously ties in through many key rivals here. Consulate back from the vanity. Yes. And, you know, that autumn lover form ties in with a few others. And strong tempo was great against a very slow tempo. In a car buying club. So, look, Magnus Intentia is a fascinating runner. You know, some win with the blinkers on at Geelong. But it didn't beat anything. I'm not as convinced as some. But certainly in the wider bets for me.
Speaker 2I know what you mean when you have a chat about Magnus Intentia. Because you looked at the Geelong race and you thought, well, geez, it was impressive. The blinkers go on, wins by a space, and it comes up favorite here. And who did it beat? And I was with you there. I thought, well, this is a massive step up in class. But we just had Andy McIver on. And he couldn't believe the way that horse won. Because obviously they had one that they thought was well above average. And Magnus Intentia made it look second rate. So, there you go. So, who knows. But he could be just one out of the box, really, that galloper. But it's a good little Sandown Guineas. But I agree with you. It's a tough race to sort out.
Speaker 11No, it is that. You know, there's a lot of anxiety. There's a lot of anglers to it, as we've sort of mentioned most of them. So, someone will be right at the end of it.
Speaker 2The D-Day horse. This is an interesting one. It's a three-year-old filly in the million-dollar race.
Speaker 11Yeah, look, I think it's time. It's a really good race for natural fleeing if you can overlook the cool more, you know, fail, inverted commas. I guess I look at that and she did, you know, she did face the breeze into that headwind up the straight and, you know, on a strong enough tempo. I go back to her previous run and she made the winner of that race really work to beat her. So, I'm happy to give her another go back to this grade. You know, I'm hoping she's not sort of end of campaign. You've got horses, girls like Aroused and Caddington very much on that upward spiral still. So, that's the challenge for natural fleeing. Happy to tip her. You're getting a good price for a really good filly if she's at her best.
Speaker 2Yeah. All right, then. So, natural fleeing in the Thoroughbred Club stakes. Aroused, you've got him for seven. Second. She's a good filly. This is another step up for her, but she gets a lovely gate. Caddington for third. So, Quinn, you got in for fourth there, Gator.
Speaker 11Yeah. Look, I thought she was quite good the other day. You know, I still can't believe, as I say, she didn't win that race. But credit to the winner who's in this race. She was tough and just missed the bob there. But the fourth girl from that race ties in both races pretty clearly. Nishioka, who was terrific. She was terrific in the Aroused and Caddington race as well. So, there doesn't appear to be panels between a lot of these good fillies.
Speaker 2No. And Afari, you got in for fifth, too. Josh Rodder said, worked the best there Tuesday morning at Sandown. And Semantics for sixth there in that three-year-old fillies race. Those are Gator's numbers. We're going to take a break. It's 51 minutes past nine. This is Gator's game plan. On the other side of it, we're going to discuss his highlight race, which is the Group 1 CFL stakes there at Sandown on Saturday. This is Gator's game plan on this Thursday morning. We're up to our highlight race, which, of course, is the CFL stakes. It's a beauty. Jeez, it's an interesting market now, Gator. You've got Baywack, the favourite, at 340. McDonald takes over. Over here. Shadovar up in class big time. It's $4.40, Shadovar. Jimmy Starr, 460. Angel Capital, 480. Pericles at 7. Splashback at 19. And then War Machine at 23. Desert Lightning at 100 to 1. If you told me at the end of the spring that Shadovar would be shorter than Jimmy Starr and a CFL stakes, even Angel Capital, I wouldn't have believed you. But that's the case come Saturday at the moment anyway, Gator.
Speaker 11Yeah, that's right. And, you know, you can easily tie her form in given she just beat, you know, Concord Connie, you know, Corfitt, albeit Patton on side. Concord Connie goes to the group one and chases Lady Shenandoah. You know, that's the horse that Angel Capital crossed the line with effectively in the group one, Rupert Clark. So easy to tie the form together. I think the thing with Shadovar is she's just going to get this good run. She's going to track Baywack, she'd think, and then really try to get her and try and challenge that horse at the 300 and then hold off the swoop, as is the way I've sort of scripted it. I think it's a great race for Angel Capital, though. I think 1,400's the sweet spot. Tab Everest back to 1,200, worst part of the track. Just the wrong race, you know. But that win over Lady Shenandoah is very likeable. I'm surprised, pleasantly, at the price that he is.
Speaker 2It is weird, isn't it? I thought he'd be a little short Angel Capital at 480. Who have you got in for second? Who's his biggest danger?
Speaker 11Well, Baywatch is another Goldie. He locks horse here, 1,400. So they tried 1,500, gave a great sight in a track record Golden Eagle. They tried 1,300, and he's been competitive at the high end with Jolie Starr at that trip. And he was brave, but it's the 1,400 where he's three for three. And all of them in group ones, two of them in really quick time. So he's going to take some catching. I'm not sure what to do with Jimmy Starr, but he'll go in for insurance. Shadovar and Pericles are sort of, I think, three-quarter-half chances without being, you know, I think, I'd want a better price for them.
Speaker 2Yeah. What about the Night Watchman? Which way are you going there? The last race at Newcastle or the last race at Sandown?
Speaker 11I'm going to Newcastle, and she's an artist. Has to overcome a wide draw, hopefully gate 10, race 10, sorry. That wide draw, a lot of scratching. She'll be okay. Can be a bit leaderish, this meeting and this track. So that could be a problem. But she was a positively ridden last time, and she won really well. So race 10, number four, she's an artist. If they miss the Hunter. Um, that's where she'll probably race. And I'm sure she'll race really well.
Speaker 2And we've got our parlay two and three at Newcastle. I'll reveal that straight after 10 o'clock. Um, but so far your balance for your Oz racing family is $4,162.80 in the positive. So there you go. That's why you got to go to Oz racing, um, ozracingform.com and away you go.
Speaker 11Not quite in last man standing areas, but, um, no, no, I get to 50. $55,000 in there, apparently.
Speaker 2Yeah. Jokes. Yeah. You're just one weekend away, Gator. Yeah. True that. One weekend away. Um, we'll take a break and then we'll come back with all of your questions. And they are flowing through. 0-4-double-nine-7-3-6-7-3-6 to join our conversation on the Garrod's Horse and Hound text line. This is Giddy Up this Thursday morning. All thanks to Bet365. Plenty more straight after this.
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Speaker 20-4-double-nine-7-3-6-7-3-6. Welcome back to Giddy Apple. Thanks to Bet365. Gareth Hall, David Gately with you. And with Bet365, they're paying an extra 10% of all your winnings and all tote bets on all Australian thoroughbred meetings. That's Wynn, Place, Quinellas, Exactus, Trifectas, First Fours and Quatties. Eligible customers only. Terms and conditions apply. Plenty of questions coming through. Gareth, what does it need for us to get Gator and you to Perth for the pinnacles? Well, I'll be going over. Don't worry about that. I'm probably going over for the northerly, I think, because we've got Marzu at Cranbourne in the media, right? I don't know what we'd have to do to get you over to Perth, Gator. How much money will it cost us?
Speaker 11Well, let's just say the. Armagard van that just drove. No, seriously. Look, it'd be a lot of fun. You'd be able to get up at
Speaker 2three o'clock and do your run, obviously, with the time difference. And you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, really. It's six o'clock in the morning once you've completed all of your duties.
Speaker 11Yeah, you'd have to mix with humans for the rest of the day.
Speaker 2I'll talk to Gil. He probably might let you off on a Saturday. Or you could do it live from Ascot. Why not? Just do the late shift with Mark Olmos.
Speaker 11Great. Man, Mark.
Speaker 2Yes. Let's do it. Let's lock that in.
Speaker 11Maybe not as soon as this year.
Speaker 2Maybe the Northerly in a couple of weeks. That'll give you and Suze enough time to work out your calendar, get someone to look after the dogs.
Speaker 12Yeah, well, they bark a lot.
Speaker 2Yeah, they do. Tell me this. Shut up! Tell me this. Tell me this. Tell me this, Gator. For the Oz Racing family, do you do form for Perth for Railway, Stakes Day, Winterbottom and Northerly, those group ones?
Speaker 11Yeah, historically, I haven't. I've done the Queensland Winter and Adelaide Peaks. But I'm going to have a good look at it this year for the fam because there's a lot of new members and they may be very interested. So I'll have a good look at that, mate.
Speaker 2Because we go to Perth now, of course.
Speaker 11Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2So it'd be, I don't think it would be right if you didn't do it, Gator.
Speaker 11Yeah, I've just got to find those hours. But we'll have a good look at it, mate. All right, then.
Speaker 2So for the Oz Racing fam, Gator will be doing the Railway, Stakes, Winterbottom and also the Northerly. Subscribe at ozracingform.com. Anyway, it's Chase here. Hey, Gator, do you think finding value in runners is easy during spring or post-spring carnival?
Speaker 11It's a good question. I guess it depends on the landscape. But also loving Chase's work as a wide receiver for the Bengals, having a great year and career. But this is, yeah, it's a great question. Look, I think in carnival time, there's a lot, everything's magnified, so it's harder to get away with things. You know what I mean by that? Like people don't miss good runs, sneaky good runs and, you know, sneaky good runs. But, you know, off-season, they're often smaller fields, wetter tracks. So, look, there's both sides of that coin. Empirical evidence perhaps suggests that carnival time with more winning hopes gives you a wider band.
Speaker 2Yeah. Hey, lads, thoughts on race one at Flemington. Liam, we wish we were at Flemington. We're at Sandown, which we're looking forward to. Itchanusa, which is an Italian beer, in race one. Your thoughts there? They were tipping it the other day. I don't know if they were tipping it, but there was a strong push for him. But the wide draw hurt his chances. What do you make of him on Saturday?
Speaker 11He's quite exciting, I think. I thought he was really good at Corfield, giving nothing around on. He did. Then went to Flemington. And as you say, drew wide, ended up a long way back in a race that was dominated nearer the speed. So just the race shape was no help. So he ran well again. So he gets to 21 to the third up. Oh, look, I am scared of Fionn Good, who will be, you know, have a head start on him and he's a bigger price and he just beat Mr. O'Reilly, who just beat Ichnusa. So I think they should be closer together. Um, but I have tipped Ichnusa on top.
Speaker 2Okay. What about Chidiak race eight at Newcastle?
Speaker 11Yeah. I really like it. I like her. I think, um, she's second pick here. And I think over the odds in a race where, um, there's a number of horses here at a big price that can run well. I think it's a great race to play some exotics. It's a wide bedding race. I think it's seven odd dollars. The field at last look now Chidiak was terrific in the Kosciuszko with 58, um, bag in traffic found the line. She won second at last prep. Then she beat surfing bird. So that's a form line. That's really easy to like. So second pick there.
Speaker 2We don't need the screw ins this weekend. It's a good track. It's sand down Newcastle. Um, it's a beautiful track, a big spacious track. As Wayne Hawks always says on the mean says, you know, I'm telling you, this is the best track in Australia, Newcastle, but on a hunter day, it's difficult to make up ground. I reckon if my memory is right, I reckon it's been difficult to make up ground on Hunter day.
Speaker 11Yeah, look, that's fair. And on their big Newcastle, new market day, whatever it is that, um, that good race, it can be a bit leery as well. Not all the time, the camera, that's it. Um, so they had an 11 meter rail. Last time we come back to the true, a similar profile to last year at this meeting. Last year, there were 10 races. Cause you've got to have 10, seven of the 10 winners either led or had that good running behind the speed.
Speaker 2Hmm. Hmm. All right, Kate. I'm aroused. I mean, I like aroused. That's really, that's really weird. I beg your pardon. What? Yeah, it's sand out. Um, on Saturday in the Phillies race, she's a good Philly aroused.
Speaker 11Yeah. I like her. Yeah. I tipped her at Flemington and I thought we were home. I think she beat herself to be honest. She just, once those inside leaders dropped off, she was left all out on her own. And I think she got a bit lost. You see the head on vision. She ran about quite noticeably late and there was nailed by another good one in Cannington who's here. Um, as a reference, the Nishioka form ties both. Yeah. Those good races together, that and the red roses. I think aroused can turn the tables on Caddington with that race experience, getting away from the straight she's second peak behind natural thing.
Speaker 2It's going to be interesting to see how the form comes out of these straight races at Flemington. I've sort of lost my love for straight racing a little bit after the carnival. Um, cause it's so many different variables that it's so difficult to work out. I reckon straight racing from time to time. Um, and you can see some big form reversals I reckon when they go back around the end. So no doubt. Yeah. Um, and we've already had a chat about Chidiak. That's from Winkers. Hey G, can you ask a dog about Santa time in the highway? Didn't come up last prep in the country qualifiers was running around favor in highways this time last year, 70 to one Mitch from Bathurst.
Speaker 11Look, you make a good case immediately. Um, and if, you know, so often it's not a bad way to find value in us, isn't it? You know, they can have a forgetful prayer for whenever a reason. But doesn't take away from their actual ability. So, um, I'll never talk you out of a 70 to one pop. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2I reckon you would've just jumped at that. The highway at Newcastle on a
Speaker 11Saturday, the highlight of
Speaker 2the 20 races get a gator. The DNA horse has to be con called Connie. Surely that's from Ben. That's a bit harsh. Isn't it? Ben?
Speaker 11Um, yeah, no, I'm really keen on her. I'm, I'm a big fan. Um, yeah, I think she'd lost. No admirers running second to. To lady Shannon Doyle, the full neck
Speaker 2girls in no, um, Dave, he just want to go to Salts and chat about, we had a chat about her just before with our highlight race. Dave says racing well, but it's racing against genuine group one horses. Does he think it's sitting at the right price? That's a good question, Dave. I can't believe she's second favorite.
Speaker 11Yeah, I think that the keys to her, as I said, you can certainly tie the lady Shannon Doyle for me with angel capital tipping. Um, and you. You certainly know, she'll get a good run and you know, she's in great form. So when, when those things align, you tend to not get the price you want.
Speaker 2Yep. Hi, Gareth and David. What do you think of Cavill Avenue and race seven at sand down? That's in that three year old Phillies race. She's $61 around that with bet. Three, six, five was absolutely enormous. First up after missing the kick thinking she's a great top five, six chance opinions. That's from Maddie B from the gold coast. Good on you, Maddie. Thanks for that. The text, of course, someone from the gold coast will be tipping Cavill Avenue.
Speaker 11Yeah, you'd think so. Yeah. Um, this, um, this is a race where you've got a lot of up and comers and you can sort of, you know, you can half tie the form in through this horse's short career to date as well. So, um, again, I'm not talking out of a 60 to one pot, but don't have the horse
Speaker 2top five, but $71 with five Cavill Avenue, $15 to place. Top finishes, you're getting top five or top six with Cavill Avenue, 475, 360. So Maddie, if you like her, that could be the way to go there on Saturday. Um, Ruben says, Hey, Jean Gator, King of Frisseau over the odds or car park barriers. Horror. Not sure how Newcastle usually plays for back markers. $11 is nice. Love the show. Well, we had Peter Snowden on and he said he couldn't really repeat what he said after he saw the Barry. the king of Asahi. for the Hunter on Saturday.
Speaker 11Yeah, it's not ideal. I really like the horse. He's been good to me, and I think he's underrated. He made Grant on tempted second up. He did. Then the Russell Balding, just the race shape was against. He ran as every bit as well as Jimmy Starr did. Look, he's drawn to swoop. He wants a level playing field. So if he gets that, I think he can win, and he's over the odds third pick.
Speaker 2Dad's going to think anything can beat Cabuccio in Newcastle, race number four on Saturday. Just having a look there. It is around $4 there. We've bet $3.65 in that benchmark 72. Unlucky second behind All-Star. The second favorite lost to All-Star by nine lengths, $3.60 is over. Of course, the second favorite is Hellfire Express.
Speaker 11Yeah, I'm pretty keen as well on Cabuccio, given a couple of key scratchings in one of the midways. That one, race four. A bit stiff two runs ago. A month between runs later, it's closed off. Oh, you referenced the form. Maps well. Happily on top.
Speaker 2Yep, $3.80 there. We've bet $3.65. Morning, G. Can you ask Gade if he gives Pericles a chance? Last start, I backed him at 15 to 1. That's from Christos from Brisbane. Good on you, Christos. He's a big prize. I reckon the Gates, as Andy Mack have pointed out, that's why you're getting around $8 here.
Speaker 11Yeah, look, I think he did have the dream run late. Yes, but I never take that away from winners. Just because they get a good run, he's still going to be good enough to win it. And he beat the Everest horses there, didn't he? So they broke the track record. He must have a case, fifth pick.
Speaker 2All right, then. It's 11 minutes past 10. We're going to take a quick break here. This is Gade's game plan on this Thursday morning. Louis Clefton's been in fine tipping form, Gade, our producer, and he goes, you know what, I want an opportunity with one of the biggest segments throughout the week on Giddy Up. He says, you've got to put Louis the lip. And Louis the lip tipped during Gade's game plan. So I said, all right, then, Louis, you will get your opportunity towards the back end of the show today. I think he's going to Ascot. So he might be able to add a little bit of Ascot flow to this segment, of course, as we get set for the pinnacles. But this is Gade's game plan on this Thursday morning, 12 minutes past 10. We'll come back with more of your questions next here on this Thursday morning.
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Speaker 2This is Gade's game plan on this Thursday morning as we take a look at Hunter Day at Newcastle and, of course, see a full stakes day at Sandown. Morning, Gareth and great man. That's a bit dis. Great man Gade, just Gareth. Yeah, that's all right. No, mate. You are a great man. Can I please have Gade's opinion on this system two and three? I love this. Sandown race seven, natural fling. Race eight, Angel Capital into Newcastle race six, love story. Thank you. The part-time roofer. Good on you, mate.
Speaker 11Yeah, well, I do think part-time is still too much, but all of those I have on top. So give each strength. I might take the same bet.
Speaker 2All right, then. What do you make of love story? You've had a few of those. Whatever your illustrious career.
Speaker 11You just won. The two. Look, ran into a smart one on debut, this horse. Then two really good wins latest. Incidentally, in the latest, thrashed a horse called Live, or Live. Okay. I don't know. And that horse, yeah, had just run well to key rival Regal Problem, ran that horse to one length. So it ties them together pretty well. Happily on top, love story. Made her the best at Newcastle.
Speaker 2Your thoughts on race three, Gator, at Sandown. I'm in love with Porter. The on pace is our Rocco Road Cone Porter versus the back marker, Fundamental Nature.
Speaker 11She's quite skinny in the market, Fundamental Nature. But I did say pre-race last time, I just want to see her ridden colder. And, wow, did that work out. What an outstanding finale to run down Jet Smash, who's no slouch. Run straight past. He'll rip, who'd just, you know, beaten Porter. And ran straight past Bucklew. So the win was terrific. There's good speed on paper. I'm going to stick Fundamental Nature, but scared stiff of Porter, second pick.
Speaker 2Macca wants to know, does Gator give Splashback any chance in the year, or maybe over the top late? I really enjoy this segment. Borin and Hotel CQ, good on you, Macca.
Speaker 11Yeah, I like her as a horse. I mean, she's a group one winner, so how could you not? But, yeah. The challenge here is she'll be back with a couple that are better performed. And can she match their finale last 400, 200? Look, I'd be surprised, but I wouldn't faint either.
Speaker 2In the Zipping Classic Gator, how do you weigh up the forms between the Geelong Cup form and the Caulfield Cup form?
Speaker 11Look, with some great difficulty, look, we just didn't get a guide, really. The perfect horse to line up. The perfect horse to line them both together would have been Duakibo, but he didn't make the ballot in the Caulfield Cup. And then, obviously, he won the Mini Valley Cup, ran a great race in the Melbourne Cup. Kingswood crossed the line with Birdman and Cheese and Alibi before his terrific Caulfield Cup win, given the ground he covered against the pattern of the day. So, look, they come up to wait for age, Estes, Duakibo, and that's a challenge for all of them, really. I'm going to tip Kingswood on top over Small Friday, and a lot between. But I'm surprised, you know, he went up a much better price.
Speaker 2Yeah, and Gavin Bedge cut over the moon with Kingswood, said he definitely hasn't gone backwards since that Caulfield Cup victory. So, he made that horse. He's won $100 staking plan play there with Kingswood in the Zipping Classic. I'm surprised he's not favourite, to tell you the truth, Gator.
Speaker 11Kingswood. Yeah, look, obviously, you can make a really good case for both. Small fries, form lines, pretty easy to fall in love with. And he's come to this country and acclimatised, you know, some things, something that the others haven't been able to cope with. So, that's a big tick for him. Two big ticks for him. Yeah. Yeah, Kingswood's win was great, though, in the Caulfield Cup. And he beats St George, who'd just run really well in a Cox play.
Speaker 2Stephen wants to know, G'day, Gareth and Gator. I like the chances of Brave won in the Hunter. Has been running well from bad barriers. Your thoughts there?
Speaker 11Yeah, top pick. And one of the better roughies on the day for me. I gave him a hope last time. And he covered ground, sure. But I don't think he ran 1,500 out. So, I think even if with a softer run, he wouldn't have won, with hindsight. His run prior to that was excellent. He was never on the track and kept coming. So, with 53 kilos here, he finally draws a gate. I think he's a great roughy in a wide race.
Speaker 2What do you think of Muffin Man's chances Saturday in race four? That's from the Messiah. Very good the other day at Bendigo, wasn't he, the Muffin Man?
Speaker 11No, terrific. Against the pattern. Not many were sort of swooping. Not many were swooping on that track. So, it was great. But he's one win from, he's the knock one win from whatever it is. But with 54 kilos, looks really dangerous. Drawn to sit close to second pick.
Speaker 2Well, any boy wants to know, can Travolta give them chills on the weekend? Is he a chance? He gets a McDonald in the Zipping Classic. You have got him in your numbers.
Speaker 11Yeah, when Darren Flindell is there. But good late in the Kingston town. Very good win gold cup later. And look, he was right with you, Akiba, in the chairmen's, remember, back in April. So, and he actually meets that horse better at the weights here at Wait for A. So, there's clearly a case to be made for Travolta. And hopefully, we're staying alive in the quaddie race nine.
Speaker 2What about Prince of Verona, this unbeaten galloper for the Archibalds? It's had three starts for three wins, the son of Castle Vecchio. Cole from Adelaide wants to know your thoughts about his chances there in the spring stakes.
Speaker 11Yeah, look, I think second pick. And does look genuinely exciting. Got a few mates in this race that can throw a good one. Last year, Greenspace went on to win a derby out of this. Yeah. The year before. But Prince of Verona is unbeaten. Look, overcame difficulties. Went to 1,400, beat Donatello latest. That form has been franked.
Speaker 2Hey, guys, in the Zipping Classic, I hate the horse. But I think Adrian Bott talked me into Vauban at 50s. What do you think? That's from Warren. You know what? Give it a good push. I wonder what Mark Hunter thinks about Vauban's chances tomorrow in the Zipping Classic. And I didn't dare say, I was probably a little weak, what Mark Hunter said about Vauban to Adrian Bott. Anyway, it would surprise me if they can turn him around, Vauban Gator.
Speaker 11It would surprise me as well.
Speaker 2Yes. Hey, boys, have two roughies to get Gator's opinion on. Almost an angel race. Seven. Good behind Sir Quinn. Two starts back. That's at Sandow. That's the first of them.
Speaker 11Yep. Look, was good. Really good sequence, especially given the pattern of that day. I know the shoot races were a little different, but still, it wasn't a great day to be a swooper. So on that run, in the mix at a price.
Speaker 2And at 200 to one, narrow guy, you thought, sir, in the last race.
Speaker 11Didn't know it was running. But yeah, that's a good one. 200 to one. Yeah, they're hard to find. -
Speaker 2That's one. - Yeah, do either have any sort of H-weight chance? One of our listeners, well, I think one does maybe, but yeah, that's ambitious about the one and the last. Does Gator give Astral Flame any chance in the last?
Speaker 11Look, I think she'd love an on-pace pattern. Whether or not, even if it does eventuate, she can beat home Savitri with that scenario. It would be a challenge, but Savitri can, you know, bring herself undone as well. So you can make a case. I've got a fifth pick for what it's worth.
Speaker 2Gator's parlay will have that for you towards the back end of Gator's game plan, so in about eight minutes' time. Gator, you're tipping she's an artist in the last, but can it get a run in the Hunter? Still tipping if it goes there?
Speaker 11In the Hunter, no, she would be down the batting order. I've got Brave One, Chidiak, top two in King of Rousseau, even Swain's Day, who we tipped at a price at Flemington and just couldn't quite get there. But infancy, she's an artist. So if they all run in the Hunter, they're all going in the quaddie,
Speaker 2so I'll tell you that much. Hey, Gene, Gator, what do you think of Don't Hope Do in the race six there at Sandown? I think it's a great bet at $6 after it's run behind Ray Biggirio and Cavalry Girl, the last two starts. That's from Coxie. Good on you, Coxie.
Speaker 11Yeah, look, I agree. I think it's a great race for this horse. These last two have been really good. In the latest, he beat Stoke. Stoke had just beaten, you know, the favourite here, Brenham Hall. So I think he's probably a slightly better horse, you know, and I'm with Coxie. I think we're a couple of points over, Don't Hope Do.
Speaker 2All right, then. Hey, Gene, Gator, what do you think about J-Mac getting on Cheyenne instead of Sir Quinn? Thanks, boys. Well, I think the difference is there that Cornwall give him royalties and Cadolphin don't, maybe. That could be a reason.
Speaker 11Yeah, look, I don't place much weight in jockey selection because more often than not, it's not a selection. So I don't think it helps me find winners.
Speaker 2Brenham Hall for the Jollies is the favourite with bet $3.65, and the Doverdon Stakes at listed level. One of our listeners wants to know, what do you think of this South Australian Galloper Gator?
Speaker 11Yeah, he measured up well, didn't this horse, in the Imperatories at Flemington, splitting Stoke and Ice Cool. So there you go. Those horses both ran okay subsequently at Flemington, didn't they? So has more upside than the likes of Don't Hope Do, but yeah, third pick.
Speaker 2All right, then. Charcoals in the last at Newcastle, any chance, Gator? That's from Wayne.
Speaker 11I like Charcoals as a horse. I'm not sure this is the race, but I'd love to see this horse, you know, run on this track with a big speed, you know, strong speed. I think he can win somewhere soon at about $10.
Speaker 2Morning. Interesting Gator's opinion on weighing up proven performers v. horses up in class. But flying example to keen, flying example keen on Tennessee Spirit Race 6 Sandown and Shadow VAR, apart from the obvious lighter weights, et cetera. That's from Stu.
Speaker 11Yeah, so I guess every case is a little different. And I think what you're looking for is, you know, that upside. So as I've said a million times, I think ratings are fabulous for straight after the race. You know, our job's to find the winner before the race. So that means finding those winners before they reach perhaps their full potential. So that's where that comes into it. So I think what you're looking for, is things that change. So things like stepping up and trip, like a horse looking, clearly looking for ground, a horse gets to a bigger track, gets a gear change, still with upside in the prep even, doing things wrong, you know, that gives you upside as well. So there's a lot of avenues to that and a lot of factors. But I think it's a great recipe for finding value winners.
Speaker 2Gator, what do you think of Ruby's Choice chances dropping back to 1,200 metres? That's from Shane.
Speaker 11Ruby's Choice is in a race. I'm sure. There's 20 of them.
Speaker 2Yeah, let me, I know what she's in. It just escapes me at the moment. Greg Yorrell's horse. Race seven at Sandown, of course.
Speaker 11Yep. There she is. She, yeah, look, she strikes a pretty hot race here. And that's what you want from me in box, right? Yeah. So I wouldn't faint, but I've got her outside my top six.
Speaker 2Angels Fury, 20 to one last start, $2.40 last start, 20 to one Saturday.
Speaker 11Hmm. Yeah, look, she did. That is a point, though. That's why the price has gone the other way. I mean, she did have a lot. She did have pressure. She had a horse outside her all the way up the straight. So I can, I can sort of semi-forgive those runs. Yeah. The challenge for her is I tipped Arouse to beat her last time. And I think Arouse and Co beat her again.
Speaker 2Hi, guys. I love this set up. There's something like, J-Mac usually wants to get back to Sydney. So, like, he had a few options to ride there in that last race there at Flemington on Saturday. But he's got to catch a certain flight home. And I don't know if it's. It's too difficult for him, even if he's in the second last to catch the flight to Sydney on Saturday night. But he's been booked to ride Johnny Sadler's horse at 20 to one. Which is Marygold in the last race at Sandown. That broke my ears. That did. Yeah.
Speaker 11No, he doesn't. He doesn't ride too many at that price. So it's worth having a look at it. And look, she's pretty genuine as a rule, too. And she did run well, you know, in the Concord Connie race. And a couple of starts ago, Corfu, didn't she? You have to say Concord Connie was better. But, you know, one's even money and one's 20 to one.
Speaker 2What about your parlay two and three? Now we're going to Newcastle, aren't we, Gator?
Speaker 11Yeah, we are going to Newcastle and hopefully we can make some money. Race two, number three, Agent Zero. Into race six, number eight, Love Story. Into race 10, number four, She's an Artist. Parlay two, three.
Speaker 2It will be some Love Story. It'll be some Love Story if you can get this parlay two and three on this Honda meeting at Newcastle. Would you have one for us at Sandown or is it a little too hard for you?
Speaker 11No, nothing's too hard before the races. All right. So we are going parlay two, three at Sandown. Just tossing up this first leg. So we'll go race three, number four, Fundamental Nature.
Speaker 2Okay. The strong down the outside.
Speaker 11Down the outside. Down the outside. Race eight, number three, Angel Capital. Yes. Into race 10, number four, Our Girl, Concord Connie.
Speaker 2Beautiful. Good little meeting there. There's a couple of questions. Do you like Geneva in the fourth race over the Muffin Man?
Speaker 11Yeah, I do. I'm happy with Geneva. Should map to get a good run and might have a head start on the Muffin Man. Yeah. I like the changing colours form.
Speaker 2And you think Chicago Blues can parvenue is an interesting run of first up 1,300 metres. And then Karen for third, which is the favourite in that second race.
Speaker 11Yeah, I'm a big fan of Karen, but with that draw, with speed drawn inside, you're going to need things to pan out well, which they might do, you know. I think Chicago Blues and Parvenu will be charging home if you can. I'm sure you can. Yeah. And they're both a good price.
Speaker 2All right. Then, hey, Gator, thanks for that. Where's Louis the Lip? I thought he was coming for his best. He's going to, do you know what? He's got stage fright. He's going to come after that. You've got to come with Gator's game plan, Louis. Yeah. Yeah. Text message is coming through. He said, where's Louis the Lip's best bet? Well, we can't take a break because Gator's got to go for his run. Louis Clifton, ladies and gentlemen, the halfback flanker for the Bannockburn Football Club.
Speaker 13Morning, everyone. Morning, Gator.
Speaker 2Now, have you had any advice for him, Gator? Obviously, being a former superstar coach in the amateurs like you were, Louis struggled a little bit this year off the halfback flank for Bannockburn. He lives with Sam Walsh. And I said to Walsh the other day, is there any chance you could probably take him for a few runs? But if you're going to get $1,000 a match, you sort of need to get more than the 15 touches that you got there last year, Louis.
Speaker 13Oh, you're asking me? Yeah, yes. I thought you were asking Gator for some advice.
Speaker 2No, but what would you suggest to him, Gator?
Speaker 11All right. So, I'd say that the $1,000 away. Or whatever it is, is irrelevant, you know? And I would say that all that does is add pressure to you. Yes. And I would say to focus on the things you can control might be the key.
Speaker 13Yes. I can assure you it's not $1,000. How much is it? Not even close. Another zero. Not even close.
Speaker 2Is it true that your lovely Lucy wouldn't let you play if you weren't getting that much money? Because she's sick of you taking Saturdays off?
Speaker 13Well, she's looking forward to when I retire, which I think. It could be one more year, I've told her.
Speaker 2Okay. And Bonsi wants to know, is it true, Gareth, that last Saturday at Flemington, the lovely Lucy out-punted a certain giddy-up producer?
Speaker 13Yes. I took Lucy to the races on Saturday at Flemington, and she was going to the yard to pick her winners from the yard. And she said to me at one point, geez, I like that Sun God or the Moody Horse that was 50 to 1. I said, oh, no chance. Did she back it? No, and it won 50 to 1. So, that's how good I'm going. And you told her not to? Yes, I did.
Speaker 2Well, it was. A bit of a form reversal, but there you go.
Speaker 13Who are you tipping? All right. My two that I like this weekend, Sandowns, race seven, number seven, Kieran Starr. I think the whole world was on her last start at Randwick, and it was one of the more difficult watches of all time. I don't think Jason Collett still got out.
Speaker 2You said you had a crack at Jason. No, I didn't. You said a massive jockey upgrade.
Speaker 13Well, there is a jockey, a fair jockey change this week. Mark Zara on board, which is great.
Speaker 2Like, how much improvement do you think that is?
Speaker 13Well, a fair bit, a fair bit. But look, that's a great race. So I think that's nearly the race of the day. Um, at Sandown. And then race 10, number five at Ascot, Gareth, Eccentric Nature. I've been telling you all week. Yes. Each way. I think it's about $26. I, I like the way this horse is going, this prep. They've been riding him cold to finish off. He had no luck last start. Um, wide barrier, so he'll get plenty of room, but I think each way he's, uh, he's not a bad bet in the last at Ascot.
Speaker 2You know, William Pike got off for that ride and they're going with Fred Kersley.
Speaker 13Fred Kersley, yeah.
Speaker 2Fred Kersley might be the number one rider now for Grand Atlanta Williams.
Speaker 13Yes, yes. No, he goes okay, especially over there, so.
Speaker 2Um, yeah. So you're happy with those, Gator?
Speaker 11Yeah, obviously I don't know a lot about the Ascot, but we're in good hands with Louis.
Speaker 13Kieran Starr, Gator, did you give, give her a chance?
Speaker 11Yeah, it's not out of it. You made it, made a good case. I think, um, most of the planet was on. Uh, I would like to put my hand up and say I'm a big Jason Collett fan, by the way. That's how I am. Oh my. Yeah. You know what?
Speaker 2This is what I love. This is the segment. We've got the apprentice taking on the master. I'm just looking at the Oz Racing family email that I got. What's he got at top eight? Then the group three thoroughbred club stakes. He's got number two natural fling at top, 13 aroused, six cannington, eight sequin, nine of farry. Wait, there's more. Keep going, son. Keep going. Swarm semantics. And there is no Kieran Starr.
Speaker 13That's all right. He launches and wins. I'll take him on. Let's see how we go. We'll, um, we'll review that next Thursday.
Speaker 2And, um, Gator, before you let you leave, there's a lot of text messages coming through. What do you make of the sandpaper situation with the Aussie cricket team?
Speaker 11I, I look at, let's keep it simple. If, if you don't, it's like, what did Mark Twain say? If you, if you tell the truth, you never have anything to worry about. Um, so if you don't cheat, you got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 2No, no. That's a very good point. You make a Gator, you go and get them and we appreciate you coming on and, um, some to boo from you, Louie and Gator's game plan. So well done. Thank you, Gareth.
Speaker 13Thanks Gator. Good on you, Gator, mate. Have a good day.
Speaker 2Let's say, uh, the, oh, geez, I hope Kieran Starr runs a race. Me too. Me too. Good race though, that race, isn't it? It is a great race. All right. And you enjoying Ascot more than the Eastern States these days? No, not at all.
Speaker 13But you know what? It is enjoyable at the end of the day, especially if you're not doing too well during the day and you turn Ascot on and it's race four or five and you've got half the car to still get through there.
Speaker 2So. The flip side of that, I used to love it, Paulie, and we'll welcome, welcome in Paulie Sebastiani. I used to love it when I was in Perth, you'd wake up, especially. Um, in daylight savings, it'd be nine o'clock and they'll be ready to go.
Speaker 13Yeah. Yeah. You'd be having your brekkie watching race one.
Speaker 2Like you'd be a little bit tired waking up, close to park on a Friday night, and then you wake up in the morning and you turn the TV on, they're racing at Flemington. You're having your, yeah, your Cocoa Pops and they're jumping, Matty Hill's voice is in the background. Yeah. Um. It's a good way to wake up. Great way to wake up. We need to get over to Perth.
Speaker 13Yep. Have you had confirmation when you're going? You're not sure.
Speaker 2Uh, maybe northerly. Northerly. I've heard that Perth is a great place to go. I think Paulie Sebastiani's found love as well.
Speaker 13F Curry store. He didn't want you to go with this on air, Gareth. Why? I don't know. No one's watching. She could be the one, I think. She could be the one. Come on, Paulie.
Speaker 2And she's, um.
Speaker 14We might have two weddings in Greece next year, Gareth. Oh, there you go.
Speaker 2Oh, there you go. Uh, no, no wonder he's been practicing his Greek. Yes. Anyway. Hey, good on you, mate. Thanks for that. Thanks, Gareth. And you're punning that well, you bought a house in Geelong.
Speaker 13Uh, not that well. No. I may have bought a house, but I'm not punting very well. No. There you go.
Speaker 2So well done. Thank you, mate. Thank you. That's a milestone. Yes. Thanks, Gareth. Um, there's Louis Clifton, Paulie Sebastiani, 30 minutes, 35 minutes past 10. Glynce Gofield will be my special guest next.
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Speaker 2to join our conversation on the Gareth's Horse and Hound text line. It's been a big show. We had Giddy Up Stable Mail. If you missed that, that'll be up on our podcast platform shortly. All you need to do is subscribe to Giddy Up with Gareth Hall. We had a big lineup of trainers. Tage Weir was excellent. Mitch Pateman's going to join us a little later on. Um, we caught up with Gavin Bedgegood. Adrian Bott had a chat to us. Graham Bigg had a chat to us. Also, Charlotte Littlefield. Um, she was excellent as always. Um, we caught up with Dan Pearce. He'll play a major part on the opening day of the Pinnacles there in Western Australia. We just had Gator's game plan as well. And Andy McIver was fascinating. Of course, the boss of Godolphin Australia. They've got some key chances, especially at that Sandow meeting with two mighty chances in the C4 stakes in the favorite Bay of Wack and also the last start Russell Balding winner in Pericles. 39 minutes past 10. Morning, Gareth. You're off to Dunkeld. Make sure you book a table at the Royal Mail. Hotel best wine list in Australia. Take your credit card. That's Stuart from Ballarat. I think we are going to try and get to the pub tonight or maybe tomorrow. The Royal Mail Hotel. Um, we've got that on our bucket list when we head to Dunkeld later today. Hey, I'll take a break on the other side of it. Glyn's go field will be my special guest.
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Speaker 2Looking forward to catching up with our next guest in Glyn Schofield, the former superstar jock, multiple group on winning jock. And of course, he is the father of Chad Schofield, who had a wonderful spring carnival this time around. And Glyn joins us here on giddy up. Glyn, good morning to you. Thanks for your time, mate. Yeah, morning, Gareth. How are you? I am very well. Well, geez, it was some, some spring carnival. Carnival for your boy.
Speaker 15Yeah, he had a, he had a great start, great middle and not so great end when he lost one of them on protest. But overall, it was fantastic.
Speaker 2Yeah. Yeah. Um, and he's got this ability and you must be proud of him to perform when it matters most on the big stage, the big group ones.
Speaker 15Yeah, I think that's obviously, that's obviously key to every sportsman. You know, you've got to perform on the, on the biggest stages of all. And that's obviously where the, the biggest spoils are and where you can really, really show. Cast your talents. So, um, you know, you've got to have the stock underneath you as well. And without the support of the trainers and the owners, it makes that, that job that little bit more difficult. But, um, yeah, it's thrilling to see and very proud to see him performing at that level and, and probably getting back to where he wanted to be since coming back from Hong Kong.
Speaker 2Yeah. How are you enjoyed retirement so far? Well, it's 48 hours in a day when you've got nothing to do. Now they tell me, and I was fascinated by this because, um, I was talking to you about it. And I thought it's a great idea. So I thought I'd get you on because I wanted to ask you a few questions. You've got a new business called my jock.com.au, which is all about, um, simplifying and helping the trainers save some time when they're booking their jockeys. Can you explain what my jock is all about? Yeah, thanks. Well, yeah.
Speaker 15So basically what it is, it's a, it's an online tool, desktop and mobile versions that basically puts all the jockeys in one shop window. Um, the jock. Jocks that jump on it and set their availability of where they're going to ride, when they're going to ride and at what weight they want to ride on each particular race day. Um, trainers can then access that and see which jockeys are going to which meetings. They can directly access the jockeys off, off, off their platform on, on my jock to match a jockey with each horse they've got nominated. It's, it's very seamless. It's all populated from, from racing Australia data. Um, I've got license agreements to, to use all the data. It's, it's live. So it's all up to date. Um, and for trainer, they, they can, they can really see who's available. Um, at, at one glance on one platform, um, without making five phone calls to five different managers to see if, if this jockey or that jockey is available. Um, and then they can make a decision from there. So it's very time saving. Um, you know, a lot of headaches are gone from not being able to find the right jockey. And of course, endless times as a jockey, you, you, you said. Oh, if I'd known you were available, I would have asked you to ride the horse, you know, come race time. Um, and so jockeys do miss rides from not knowing trainers, not knowing that they're available. So it really puts the jockeys in the, in the, in the shop window as well. So, um, it, it, it solved two per two problems, um, in one, in one, in one
Speaker 2sort of website. Because I guess like the jockey bookings, they're done what two or three weeks out before, before the meeting.
Speaker 15Yeah. Well, a lot changes in between, but yeah, a lot of trainers have their. Programs set out for the horses two weeks out. And when they, when they're thinking about a race, they're trying to source the jockeys and the best jockeys that they can. Um, and it's, you know, sometimes people might think I'll never get so-and-so because the trainer he rides for has got a horse nominated or, and then come race time, that jockey is available and you might've missed out. So, um, as a jockey as well, you might not be in the trainer's mind, but of course, if you see, if he sees your name is available, all of a sudden, you know, you, you, you can pick up some rides from trainers. Yeah. I think the perfect example that like, uh,
Speaker 2we've had a few text messages this morning is McDonald at Sandown and Nash say at Newcastle, people would have thought maybe Nash would go to Sandown to ride bave whack. Um, but he's at Newcastle for that Hunter meeting. McDonald is that, um, at Sandown for the CFO stakes meeting. So, um, it gives owners and trainers an opportunity to understand what jockeys are going where nice and early, I would imagine.
Speaker 15Well, it does. And it, also gives the jockey manager a little bit of ease because it's a lot of tools there's a lot more in it for the jockey and jockey manager um the manager to act on behalf of the rider so he can sit like instead of having the phone or text message or email every trainer um in melbourne that james is going to be in in victoria for for that meeting um obviously the big trainers might know already but you know a lot of a lot of those smaller trainers are not maybe aware of that and it allows everybody access to the best riders at any given time so um it does two things it puts all jockeys in the shop window it allows the trainers to see who's available where and when and importantly it lets you know what weight the jockeys are going to ride on the on the day and in each particular race as well is it national it's national yeah yeah
Speaker 2all right then what's the feedback been so far has it been
Speaker 15helping yeah so i've been going about just over a week and i've got about 120 people on it already i'm interacting with it um so it's been chad's picked up quite a few winners and uh rides from trainers he had been ridden of ridden for for quite some time unfortunately now he's got some time on the sidelines so he's not riding he's being suspended but um you know it's gaining momentum every day and of course the more people that are on it the easier it is for
Speaker 2everyone to use yeah so um and you just go to what www.myjock.com.au yeah it's my job with
Speaker 15an i m i j s u k yeah
Speaker 2and it's it's
Speaker 15free to sign up it's free to use um until middle of jan next year yeah um obviously i just want people to get on it interact with it realize how easy it is to work and um for training it certainly takes a lot of the a train of the time poor um you know they want to be able to get their jobs done quicker they can send requests out to multiple jockeys at the same time so it creates a bit of urgency you know for a ride they want to get filled and they can schedule them if they've got a preference of first second or third jockey they can they can give them all a certain time frame as to when they want to an answer by and it just gives trainers so many more options and of course jockeys can access the nominations and see where where trainers don't have a rider for their horse and fill up their book for their riders so there's a there's a lot of positives and a lot of benefits for it from both sides
Speaker 2yeah and what was the inspiration behind it how do you think of this
Speaker 15idea um as i said 48 hours in a day with nothing to do when i retired i i just i just i was i'm always like on the think and thinking about certain things and how i can i was always as i said i always was a pro not always but i'm often got approached and said, oh, I can't find your manager. You won't answer. Or you said you had a ride in the race, and yeah, but it got scratched. But now you're available. I didn't know you were available. So sometimes things slip between the cracks, and you might miss out on a ride here and there. And for trainers and owners, sometimes that's important that they get, you know, who they want, not necessarily the first person they find available. So it just opens up everything for everybody. And as I say, for riders, it just puts them in the shop window in front of everybody's eyes.
Speaker 2Good on you, mate. Lovely idea. We wish you the best of luck with it. And good to see you going so well, too, in retirement. Well done to Chad as well. You'd be super proud, but we appreciate your time here on Giddy Up.
Speaker 15I just want to say, Gareth, I love the show. I mean, the banter between, yeah, and it really, really is, it's good entertainment. And it's, you know, it's not wishy-washy. It's factual. It's raw, and it's to the point as well. So, yeah, well done to you. I appreciate that, Glyn. Thanks for that, mate.
Speaker 2Okay, great. Thanks, Gareth. There's Glyn Schofield there. 49 minutes past 10. We'll take a break. We'll come back and find you some winners on this Thursday.
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Speaker 2ozequipment.com Welcome back to Giddy Up, 52 minutes past 10. Let's find you some winners with Bag of Tips, thanks to Bet365. Also, of course, the Oldhamer Hotel on the heart of the Mallee, just down the road from Swan Hill. Swing by for a cold beer and Oz Equipment Rentals. ozequipment.com What's our boost horse today, Paulie Sebastiani? I think it's with Mickey Gannon. He's top tip today. Kerindai, Broken Wings.
Speaker 14It is, yes. Kerindai for Mickey Gannon today. It is race six, number eight, Broken Wings. Yep, there we go. So check out the bet boost selection there today, Kerindai.
Speaker 2And Brycey, Mickey Gannon's on this afternoon, on Thursday afternoon, track side. Yes. And Semi Highland, there you go, Mickey Gannon. Dangerous duo, that is. What a duo, that is. Benny Iscariot Seymour likes Oceanella, race eight, number 10, and Chocolate Freckles, race one, number 14. That's his next best. So race eight, number 10, race one, number 14. Luke Ovenesian at Kerindai likes race two, number one, Clary's Run, and race six, number eight, Broken Wings as well. So he is with Mickey Gannon there at Kerindai. And at Port Macquarie, Archeny, race five, number three, and Vitozzi, race seven, number 11. At Bunbury today, Matty French likes race two, number five, Squad Goal. Kazim Mataz, race five, number eight, and Money Manziel, race one, number seven, is his best value. That's from Matt French at Bunbury, race two, number five, race five, number eight, and race one, number seven. At Eagle Farm today, Chris Nelson, he'll join me a little later on for the Thursday Fall Lounge, but Paulie Sebastiani, you've got his best at Eagle Farm, this meeting that, of course, was meant to be yesterday.
Speaker 14Do indeed have them. His best bet is race five, number 13, Storming Home. Let's hope that's exactly what that horse does. So 5.13 at Eagle Farm, and his next best, race four, number seven, Wooten Hide. So 5.13 and 4.7 today at Eagle Farm. Time for Chris O.
Speaker 2Good on you, Paulie. Thank you. Darren Carroll, the Kilmore Trots, likes race nine, number one, Frosty Drop. Race nine, number one, Harness Race in New South Wales, the home of Carnival of Cups, where Australian music royalty meets quality harness racing action at Penrith. Michouet, race four, number eight, and race five, number eight, King Corey. Other tips there from Amanda Rando. You can check out racingqueensland.com.au for where Queensland is racing today at the Q2 Parklands. For Georgie Ferrucci, he likes race two, number one, the Tiger, and race eight, number four, Ideas Girl. And Michouet Bay's done the form for that meeting as well, and he joins us. Hello, Michouet. Morning, G-Man. Good to be with you. Just quickly, what was the bet boost horse? The bet boost horse was Broken Wings, race six, number eight, at Corinda.
Speaker 16I can't sing. My voice is terrible. But any chance we can get Paulie Sebastiani on a bit of, like, you know, so take these Broken Wings and learn to fly again? Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. He's a bit tired today.
Speaker 2He's a bit emotional. He's in love. He's been working seven days a week, and it's all caught up with him. Yeah, I think so. So he's a bit tired and emotional today.
Speaker 16Well, he went to the Meadows last night and had a buffet, so no wonder he's.
Speaker 2Oh, there you go. He lives at the Meadows. He's there Saturday, Wednesday night anyway. How are we making some money?
Speaker 16Now, let's go Q2 Parklands. I'll tell you what, I'm bloody glad this joins back because Q1 Lakeside had been absolutely terrible for me. But we'll bounce back, and we're going to start off in the first race one, number one, Solange. This thing's been well-supported. Looking at around $3.70 as we speak, about a five. I'm saying $5.15 to $5.20 early sort of type, but draws really nice, looks to have a really nice future, and made some good ground last time out when winning. I think it can lob in a great spot. Should get plenty of cover from the three early, and I think it's a great price. This will continue to be backed, I feel. Race one, number one, Solange. Best bet on the program's race five, number two, Miss Bear. It was just enormous at Q1 Lakeside last time. Last time out, the dog's got a huge motor. It's been well-supported. You're getting just under $2 as we speak. But good record at the track. Seven starts, four wins, a minor placing. Goes well off an inside draw. Returns to Q2 Parklands, well, for a long time. It hasn't been there for a while, been to Q1, so I reckon it does its best work at Q2, and that's why they've backed it. So that is first leg of the quaddi race five, number two. Yes. And then the lucky last, I'm taking on Georgie Ferugia, which is scary. Race eight, number five, Strutt. And if this gets up, I will. You'll be strutting, don't you worry. But it draws nice. I think it's got the speed to lead. Bit of pace outside in the eights, she's all five. It'll stay wide. And I think Ideas Girl can give us a lovely card into that first turn. Strutt can have a great turn of foot and get up at around $4.60, G-Man.
Speaker 2All right, then. I love your confidence there today. Bring on tomorrow night with the preludes of the Melbourne Cup and also the Laurels. And what else have we got? We've got Melbourne Cup heats Friday week. So bring it on.
Speaker 16And then.com coverage. And we'll be on that night, Melbourne Cup heats. And I'll see you for the Melbourne Cup. And then the lucky last one for the Phoenix. Hey, just quickly, you missed out on Wrongly Accused. You racing for second or what?
Speaker 2No, he won't beat us when it matters most. Mate, he was lucky not to find trouble again. He'll find trouble. He'll find trouble and we won't have to worry about him. We'll be off and gone, whoever we pick.
Speaker 16I reckon you would add Kleenex sponsorship with enough tissues. No, I loved it. I was happy.
Speaker 2I was happy. I was happy for him. I think it's great. It's great for the game. But anyway, he is a freak, but he needs luck. He can't keep missing. He misses this. You know what I mean? I've got to go. I've got to go. I've got to go to an ad break. I love your work. Have a great day. I'll be punting at you too. 1058. We welcome our friends now listening to us on SEN Turf right throughout WA. they join our audience on rsn sen track and of course racing.com has been a big show so far we had a host of the major plays ahead of a big weekend of racing with giddy up stable male um it was great to catch up with trainers like charlotte littlefield dan pierce we we caught up with adrian bott graham big gavin bedge good of course he's got his caulfield cup champ kingswood going around the zipping classic and tage where we caught up with her as well um so to catch up with those interviews all you need to do is subscribe to giddy up with gareth wall with your local podcast subscriber and david gailey was sensational as always with gator's game plan and as well as part of giddy up stable male we also had a chat to andy mackiv because the blue army will be out in force especially at sandown on saturday they've got two of the leading chances in the cf4 stakes with bavac trained by chris waller and pericles trained by bjorn baker busy final hour coming your way josh mclaughlin from jig racing with he's look at some of the better debutantes going around this week and also looking back at some of the best performances um in these maiden races so josh mclaughlin's not far away jesse gow will join us from nzb of course with the nzb ready to run sale happening next week we've got the thursday full lounge so we'll catch up with mitch pateman chris nelson um we've got sa time richard jolly will be our special guest and tazzy time as well so it's a busy final hour coming your way but it's always great to catch up with josh mclaughlin from jig racing g'day josh very good
Speaker 17morning to you gareth yeah i'm
Speaker 2well mate how did you go how did you get through that flemington carnival yeah it
Speaker 17was long gareth but um no it was really good fun it's one of the best weeks of the year as you know and um it's good to put the tools down on saturday afternoon and um leave them alone for 36 hours or so yes
Speaker 2what about from a jump out point of view have you found one for us look i
Speaker 17think there's been two we we do we are heavy focused on maidens gareth and looking for horses we're going to go to those and hopefully we can uh knock them off when they head there so look there was two from the jump out this week that i think uh certainly trending in the right way uh there's one at cramping on monday from the basenko yard blue ivy homebred here she's only had the one start this philly and it was in a hot maiden back in july behind organized crime which that's certainly amazing we like to see these maidens stand up and i think that one clearly did so she was given no hope there she was immediately tipped out freshened up thought her work there on monday was very good she just dialed it up to them and put them away quickly in good time so hopefully i give her one more gareth and then um i think they'll pick off a maiden they seem to focus in a lot on these maidens around at packing them uh this time of the year the basenko so they've always got a handy one in the yard gareth and i think this one can be uh winning a maiden first up so that's the one from cramping there was one at belnaring on wednesday from the drone hunter yard funnily enough came through the same maiden back in july behind organized crime ran third there it's called long island oyster thought it was very good work there stand out jump out for us at belnaring so jerome places them very well and they're usually fit and ready to go when they go to a maiden so they're the two that we've got pinned for when they line up in a maiden the next
Speaker 2week or two and you found for us one on friday night at packing them
Speaker 17well the best well we've actually got one at your long as well gary okay there's a there's a first starter there in race three it's the three-year-old phillies to maiden over 1235 and i think nigel blackston's got a handy little fun and philly here called lafana she looked very sharp in a path to jump out one was on the synthetic one was on the grass but she draws ideally in gate three here love the blake shins book here which on debut which is in the first week or two weeks and i think she's going to be the best in the race i think she's going to be the best in the race i think she's going to be the best in the race i think she's going to be the best in the race i think she's going to be the best in the race here which on debut which always shows good intent i don't think there's a hell of a lot of pace here so from her gate i think he'll show intent early he'll look to just hold up the velocity bell wants to take it at all costs and i'm sure blake will be happy to just tag her in the run but i think from what we've seen from the jump outs with her when the sprint goes on too long to track you certainly don't want to be too far back in and she's shown very good gate speed in her jump out so i think she'll park one two here in early running gareth and if she's going to be the best in the race she um brings her track work she'll be awfully hard to beat on debut so she's the maiden that we're most interested in in the coming day and then uh on pack at packing them on friday night there's a class one race there with one at a bit of value comes up in race five and i think it's brass in pocket she's around that six fifty seven dollar mark at the moment i think she came to a race at geelong first up where the track that day was savage the horses that were up on paint and she just had no hope there she was well back she's since been back to the trials they put the visors on her in that piece of work and i think that sharpened her right up there so from a good gate i think she can posse up here there's two horses drawn outside of it i think will spear across and then certainly a bit of a queer at the trip so she'll probably just have them in the sights park up third fourth fifth here and i think uh with the visors going on i think she can improve sharply and uh she's not a bad each way play at that six fifty seven dollar
Speaker 2mark all right then um i like that push um at um packing them on a friday night um good on you mate um keep on dominating we appreciate your time as always and good luck um over the next couple of days anything at sand down for us
Speaker 17um look we're just still getting to it at the moment but i think um i think mary gold's for those guys who like to play those top three top four type multis and like to throw one in a bit of value i think she's certainly been missed in the market we'll keen on her last start and they took her out and they've saved her for this but look i think there's a lot of pace in this race and i think it's going to suit her she's fourth up now she's fit um as i said i think there's going to be a bit of tempo on up here so i think horses like her and concord connie are going to settle out the back but i think she's going better than her price suggests gareth and concord connie i would presume they're going to ride her quiet but willow does like to find that time so if she was starting to get posted and she just got cuddled up here she might be big over so we'll be having a little uh dabble on her more so the place
Speaker 2and jay mcdonald's a very interesting booking um for that last race there at sand down on a saturday afternoon for the great johnny sadler so yeah that is intriguing so we'll see how it all unfolds there
Speaker 17beautiful gareth so hopefully we can get the money there and um have fun at dunk
Speaker 2out and get on jig racing just go to your website mate you got your app up and running as well and you can get all of your tips and not only for victorian racing but all around the country you even got some um dog tips as well which you've been seeing them beautifully whoever's doing your tips there at the dogs um them see
Speaker 17yeah absolutely gareth in the next 30 days you can get on there it's one dollar no lock-in feeds um we've obviously got the hong kong races which are becoming very very strong at this time of the year for the internationals coming up in less than a month believe it or not so we've got our dogman we've got our queensland punter up there as well and um there'll be a heavy focus on uh sharp into the next three or four weeks good on you josh thanks
Speaker 2for that thanks gareth there's jig racing's josh mclaughlin time for a break we're heading to new zealand next jesse gower from new zealand bloodstock will be joining me and kit brooks from kb bloodstock kid and his team have had so much success at these ready to run sales in new zealand and they will be joining me next here on giddy up join the conversation
Speaker 1on oh four double nine seven three six seven three six live across australia this is giddy up with gareth hall welcome back
Speaker 2to giddy up the famous ready to run new zealand bloodstock sale is on next week there's been many a superstar that have been purchased out of this sale and this year looks big and better than ever really after watching those breeze ups last month the sale will be conducted next week and jesse gow is excited she always is when it comes to the sales season hello to you jess good morning lovely to
Speaker 18see you yes i am excited we're we're a week out now from the ready to run time next week yeah we will be um on the second day of selling so we're in the final stretch and i got my friend here kit brooks from katie bloodstone going to be well he's he's got a fair-sized draft and he's had a lot of success with the sale so we'll have a yarn with him and i'll find out what goes the secrets are um that go into producing it of course at this year on sale we just
Speaker 2got your lines a little bit shaky at the moment um we'll continue on with it and if i think it it's too difficult to listen to we'll stop again and um we'll get you on the phone there jess but kit um thanks for joining us here on giddy up are you getting how how's it all looking ahead of the sale next week for for your farm uh yeah thanks for having me
Speaker 19here um sorry i've had a bit of a virus so my voice is a bit hoarse and i'm not sure if you can hear me well i'm not sure if you can hear me well i'm not sure if you can hear me well i'm not
Speaker 18sure if you can hear me well i'm not sure if you can hear me well
Speaker 19um you know the horses are all doing very well and then the final touches at the moment and um heading up saturday ready to parade on sunday but the horses are all doing well had a good break from breeze up day and put on a bit of condition and doing really well
Speaker 2why do you think this sale kit's been so successful for nzb over the years
Speaker 19um oh that's got to be just there's a great great group of people buying and selling the horses really yeah good good vendors um that do a really good job producing them and right from breaking breaking them in, doing a fantastic job and producing what's eventually a good racehorse, not just a horse that can do 200 metres, you know, trying to get the end result, which is a top racehorse.
Speaker 2Have you found with KB Bloodstock now that you're getting opportunities with better bread gallopers to prepare for this sale?
Speaker 19Yeah, definitely, definitely. From when we started, we've definitely improved the quality of horse just through good clients and buying better horses ourselves, really. And just knowing what we're doing more and more every year. But I think the quality is definitely going up each year and we're really happy with what we've got.
Speaker 2So, Kit, what would your advice be to the buyers out there in the train and looking for a ready-to-run horse? What do you look for when you watch the breeze up? So what do you think we should look for?
Speaker 19Well, definitely just a great mover, good action and a good temperament is as important as anything because then they're going to. They're going to train on in the future. But if you can get something with really good action and a good brain, then they don't have to have the fastest time at the 200 metres. Train on. Okay.
Speaker 2You just broke up there a little bit, but we'll try one more time. It's been pretty good, but just then it just broke up a little bit, Jess. But, Kit, the last one before we let you go. Sulak was a horse that graduated from your farm. Obviously, Dom Sutton's. Had a really good record with this ready-to-run sale. What did you find in him? Did you think he'd be as good as he has been, Sulak? I think he was purchased for, what, $400,000 there at the ready-to-run sale a few years back.
Speaker 19Yeah, well, you never know what they're going to end up like,
Speaker 2but he was a lovely horse. Yeah. Hey, we might just take a break. We might get Jess on the phone. Just a dodgy line. Yeah, weather in New Zealand. So we'll give Jess a call and, yeah, we might have a quick chat to Kit and then finish off that interview with Jess because those sales are on next week. I think there's still accommodation still available. Obviously, it's been such a successful sale for NZB and, yeah, there is a lot of interest from Australian buyers, especially over the last couple of years. The Australian, the Australians, especially with the money that they've spent at that sale has increased dramatically over the last couple of years. I think Jess is ready to go. We've got you on the line, Jess. We just, it was difficult to hear there. It was just breaking up a little bit, but it's not far away now, Jess, these sales. What's the interest been like from the Australians ahead of the sale next week?
Speaker 20It's been fantastic. The hospitality girls are losing their minds slightly. Are they? The bookings were good and then everyone gets a bit frenzied because they're all like, oh, crikey, we can't miss out on a sale. That produces 33 group one winners in the last five seasons, so we better get down there. And so we've been inundated with some last minute bookings. Hong Kong's really solid, but we're really chuffed to see such sensational attendance that we're going to have from Australia as well.
Speaker 2Yeah, I can just picture a few of the Australian trainers sorting out what they're doing next week and then they're watching us on racing.com and listening to us on RSN and Essie and Track. And you mentioned the 33 group one winners. You mentioned the horses like Mr. Brightside, Charles Wolfe, Golden 60, Lucky Swainess, Warmonger, obviously Dom Sutton, Skinny's winner, which was Ferroche. The list goes on and on, Jess.
Speaker 20Yeah, for sure. It is a sale that delivers results. If you want return on investment, a horse that's going to get quickly up and get running, results for your owners, this is a sale that you can't overlook. It just keeps delivering. We're very proud of it, but also, as you know, it makes my job easier. So we've got chaos here. We're at the yard and there's all sorts going on. And it's just a tried and true sale. And it keeps not only getting the results in the sales ring, but you've got the likes of Kit Brooks, who we were just talking to before. He's right beside me here. And he sells some of the top lots, but then those horses go on and get results. You're getting a return on investment. It's a formula that works.
Speaker 2Yeah, hidden achievement was a beauty. I remember that Kit sold that. He's a great developer that was second, I think, in the J.J. Atkins. Can you ask him for us, Battlers, which horse should we be buying from his draft next week? Something that we can afford around $100,000, $150,000. That'd be nice.
Speaker 19Yeah, yeah. That's a good question. We've got a few goodies. Yeah. The Ritten Tycoon Colt and the Zuthane Colt that breezed up together are just two super professional, lovely, lovely colts. They've got to be a couple of them. I don't know if they're my favourites, but a couple of big, strong boys. There's a Home Affairs Baruri out of a group two mare and actually real keen on the Novia Max Mara Colt. He's a lovely, big, strong boy. And, you know, he might be a bit more affordable for some people
Speaker 2and he's a beautiful horse and can really gallop. Beautiful, mate. You must be looking forward to it. Do you get nervous this far out or are you just trying to – and when do you get to go to – so when do you arrive at Karaka?
Speaker 19We head up on Saturday morning with the team and we'll be ready to parade. First thing Sunday morning. So there's no point getting too nervous or whatever, you know. We've done all the preparation and now we just wait and get them sold.
Speaker 20He lost his voice. He needs to find his voice again, I think, before the weekend.
Speaker 2He'll be right. Just a bit of honey. What's that someone gave me when my throat was gone? I forgot. I don't know if it was – was it you, Louis? A bit of honey and a cup of tea. That's all he needs. He'll be good as new before you know it, kid. Yeah, that's it. That's it, Jess. You know. Now tell me this, Jess. When does everyone arrive? Obviously, the inspection starts Sunday.
Speaker 20Yeah, so we've got most – everyone will be here by Monday. I've actually had a lot of buyers saying, hey, hey, we've got parades first thing from Sunday. And I've actually rounded up some of the vendors to check they are parading from 8 a.m. because people are keen to get in there. So we'll certainly have all our domestic buyers there on Sunday and many of our internationals as well. And certainly everyone will be on the grounds Monday.
Speaker 2Is there a – there's a few text messages coming through. Can I still get accommodation? Isn't it the complex?
Speaker 20We will find somewhere to put them. Actually, I think there might be a couple of maybe we've kept in our back pocket. So definitely get hold of us. Yes. And we'll work our magic, of course.
Speaker 2Beautiful. Or you can go with Guy Mulcast and the captain and get on the source for the week and go into the city for half. Exactly. Yeah, and then turn up hungover and buy your next champion. A lot of them do the early work in the early part of the week and then once the sales start, they go out and party in the city. And then they come back and then they just need to bid, basically. That's what we like. Yeah. I don't want you partying, Kit, with that voice. I reckon you should just give it a rest until after the sale. Yeah, you'll know if I'm still talking like this at the end of the week. I've had too much fun. Yes. Hey, well, wish you the best of luck, Kit. And Jess, you go and get them as well. We appreciate you coming on the show as always. And, yeah, it's such a – it's a big sale now for NZB. I told Andrew Seabrook it would be better than book one of the January sale, and I reckon I'll be proven right next week. You'll have a record sale.
Speaker 20Oh, I love your – I love that crystal ball work, and certainly we're hoping for it. The ingredients are there, so bring it on.
Speaker 2Good on you, Jess. Good on you, Kit. Thanks for joining us on this Thursday afternoon New Zealand time. Thanks for having us. Bye. There's Jess Gower from NZB and Kit Brooks from KB Bloodstock. KB Bloodstock do a wonderful job with these ready-to-run horses, and it'll be interesting to see how that – sale does go next week, especially after the success of the Inglis ready-to-run sale last month, of course, just before Everest Day. 20 minutes past 11, we'll take a break. We'll come back with the Thursday Four Lounge next. Welcome back to Giddy Up, Gareth Hall with you. It's time for the Thursday Four Lounge. Thanks to the Rising Sun Hotel in South Melbourne, backing winners with premium steaks, high-quality service, and the thrill of every race day. You can check out racingqueensland.com.au for where Queensland is racing today. Chris Nelson joins us for his Dubin preview Saturday, but they're also racing at Eagle Farm today. Hello to you, Chris.
Speaker 12Good morning to you, Gareth. Yes, they are racing at Eagle Farm today. They are the five racers that we lost. We lost yesterday. Yes. So we're kicking off at 11 o'clock local time. So what's that, your time? 10 o'clock. Yeah. Probably already started the first half. So I missed it. See, caught me unawares completely. So five racers kicking off. We already kicked off and we finish around 12, I think 17 or something, your time. So yeah, looking forward to that.
Speaker 2Well done, everyone. Like to get involved to be able to do that so owners and trainers and jockeys don't miss out on some wages, basically.
Speaker 12Yeah. Definitely the case. It's 36 minutes away, the first race.
Speaker 2Jeez, you frighten me a little bit. Yeah. So Invincible Chase is the favorite there for Jack Bruce and Benny Thompson, around $1.45 there with Bet365.
Speaker 12It must be 12, your time. Again, daylight saving, Gareth. It just drives me insane.
Speaker 2I know. I know. I didn't want to bring it up, but anyway. I know it upsets you.
Speaker 12Now, Doombin on Saturday. Doombin on Saturday. It's already a heavy eight because we had 35 mils yesterday. So there's a storm forecast. every single day this week. week relating into the weekend and there's even more rain forecast saturday than the other days so i'll give you some tips here but i would probably hold off because you're either going to get screwed over by deductions or the weather one of the two so these the one i think that'll really handle it no matter what happens is race 10 number nine all kinds of folk and if we get to race 10 on saturday with all this rain it's going to be a bog but this horse loves a bulk it was good last start he's got some good form around some some good horses such as brindavan et cetera who ran so well in sydney last week so he is the one i would say even say and if you want to get in early you're still probably going to get done over by deductions because there'll be scratchings in the race but he's the one on on keenest on at the moment he's around uh yours for theirs around even money two dollars so he goes in race five number nine this mayor from tony golden stable cardinette she showed a really good turn of foot to win last start i think she's really going places she's won three this prep but that win that was her best clearly she just put them away from midfield uh there wasn't a lot of tempo in the race so she just picked them up as i said she put them away she raced away that was on a soft track uh probably going to be worse than that can she do it on a heavy will she start from the wide gate all remains to be seen but as it stands she's very promising and she should run well and we'll throw in race seven number four shredded beaten by ready for amy last start they meet again here uh was on a heavy track on that occasion a little bit better at the weights this time around shred and i think it's just a little bit better suited than last time out so we'll go with shredded each way in that race but as i said uh a lot to happen between now and saturday i'm getting sick of saying it every week but so we seem to keep our eyes on the skies there's a lot of storm activity at the moment yeah it's been
Speaker 2um geez been a wet spring really in southeast queensland hasn't
Speaker 12it it has it's just we were supposed to get a super el nino but i don't know when that's supposed to kick in it's been completely the opposite no i mean i know we had four of them i don't know what they're doing but i know we had 400 mils here at my place in uh in five days or something a while back so won't be anything like that but it's going to affect obviously the
Speaker 2racing all right then so we'll see what happens with doom but on saturday what are you like today in the five races again yeah
Speaker 12i did like that one in the last so it's now race five horse number 13. yeah i think it'll run really well yeah keen on it uh and i just know too uh kick up rocky goes around in the spring stakes yes uh newcastle on saturday yeah desley he's absolutely flying this bloke i think he can win gareth i think he got rocky could win but he's no massive odds he's around uh 250 or something like
Speaker 2that he's a good horse isn't he he was um yeah he he surprised a few during the winter carnival and those two-year-old races but good to see desley have a good horse in her barn once again good on you chris yes yeah he's
Speaker 12proven versatile he went forward first up and then he went back and ran them down with 60 kilos second up so he's really going well gareth you
Speaker 2enjoy your golf if you can get out there anyway stay dry not much chance yes thanks you too see ya there's chris nelson check out racingqueensland.com.au for where queensland is racing today now this is the thursday full mounds thanks to the rising sun hotel in south melbourne what a pub it is in south melbourne backing winners with premium stakes high quality service and the thrill of every race day cheerio to t-bone from boga um we met him of course at the lake boga pub during the winter carnival in um swan hill when we had um um our giddy up night there and you can he says shout out to the think big members there at the swan hill turf club and all the farmers doing harvest as we speak um good on you um t-bone hopefully you're having a good harvest as well 28 minutes past 11 mitch pateman will be my special guest the informed trainer of the west he'll join me straight after this join the
Speaker 1conversation text us on oh four double nine seven three six seven three six live across australia this is giddy up with gareth hall
Speaker 2welcome back to getting up this is the thursday forum lounge can't wait for the pinnacles to start on saturday at ascot and this man everyone is following these days he's become a household name in wa he's nearly bigger than pikey i speak of mitchell pateman hello to you mitch yeah
Speaker 21no i'm a bit short of pikey garrett no all good yeah the pun is
Speaker 2power every time we just back you just keep on winning i think you're going at something like 30 it's quite extraordinary to watch from afar yeah
Speaker 21they're going well we're pretty lucky we've got some really nice horses at the moment so and they're performing well so um yeah hopefully it continues on where
Speaker 2do we start we might go the colonel reeves um gateway one a negative or a positive for basset hounds the people's champ yeah walks and couch should
Speaker 21be very happy you've started with basset hounds well done gareth um no he's really well um barrier one oh i don't know yeah we'll find out that uh suppose i'd i would rather him draw there than draw the outside enough to get back to last in a race like this so he's going to need luck at the right time but if he gets it he's probably going to hold a closer position than what he has been hopefully and he's probably going to hold a closer position than what he has been hopefully and um yeah he's just going to need now it's a luck on straightening if he gets it well he should be in the finish
Speaker 2now i'm his biggest fan i even stuck fat when he was getting beat all the time as a short price favorite there in the early part of his career but everyone's jumped on the bandwagon since mitchy boy like he's the second or third favorite for the winner bottom with bet 365 he's a clear favorite on saturday in the colonel reeves do you think he deserves to be as short as he is in those markets
Speaker 21no probably not no no no he um he needs to do it sat data um you know to be deserving to be yes second or third favorite in the winter bottom like um you know he's only been in in ratings races so far um probably my only slight concern with him is i honestly believe he's a prep off um you know i i i think what he's doing at the moment's on raw ability um you know i think in in you know four or five months time he's going to be a different horse after another spell so um yeah if he can you know win sat and get into a window bottom well that's you know that's great but um yeah i hate to know what he'll do in the
Speaker 2autumn um and then you've got another run of crack and time uh each way price your thoughts there in the colonel reeves yeah he couldn't have gone any
Speaker 21better in the prince of wales um you know he was a super run he went every step of the way with immortal bliss and and talking co to finish third so that's the right form for a race like this um probably my only slight concern with him is that he's got to be in the winter bottom if he can win like worry with him is the prince of wales was run at a breakneck tempo and that really suits him because it gets him off the bridle and he gets into a good rhythm whereas saturday you know for a lead up to a winter bottom it looks devoid of speed so um yeah he's going to need something to sort of clap the speed on just so he can get into a good rhythm if if they do then he's drawn the right gate to get the right run um and i'm sure he'll run well one of
Speaker 2the most exciting horses in the west is your philly profit motive who's a dollar 55 with bet 365 in the champions phillies um do you expect her just to turn up and get the job done there saturday well
Speaker 21it's never that easy but um you know what she's probably got in her favor is she meets a very similar field to what she met last start um and and she did the job there so she obviously drawn a little bit stickier saturday she's up to a mile but i think she's a really really good horse um you know she's a really really good horse um you know she's a really really you know she at least from 12 or 11 or whatever she's drawn she's going to be out of trouble which is the main thing she's very versatile she can obviously lead and win she can come from back and win um so holly's got options but yeah i think the most important thing is just to get her into a rhythm and and uh keep her out of trouble if she
Speaker 2wins by five with the handbrake on do you go to the guineas the week after no no
Speaker 21no no she won't go to the guineas if she wins by five with the handbrake on well then you've probably got to think about the northerly but yeah um no she certainly won't back up off a week um so yeah it's just um you get through saturday see how she goes and then and then work it out from there obviously um you know i think this preparation will be her last prep in wa so hopefully we can make hay while the sun shines all right then what's she doing
Speaker 2after that then uh
Speaker 21she'll go yeah i think she'll go east after that she'll um has she been sold or no i'll just send her over she's um yeah the ownership group want to keep her and race her but um you know one thing i've learned off justin is you know if they've got the ability she does they belong over there not here so um yeah whether i take her or she goes to someone over there we'll we'll work that out after this prep but um yeah hopefully we can get one or two more wins out the way a few
Speaker 2people ringing in now to see if they can train this philly in the autumn be off your phone will be ringing straight after this interview um um if you could have one horse you can only have one horse mitch for the pinnacles would it be basset hound or would it be profit
Speaker 21motive oh don't make me do that gareth um uh i'd probably i'd roll with profit motive only because i'd be happy to put bass down in the paddock and come back in the
Speaker 2autumn there you go profit motive there you go walk so i had to ask the question um uh big red zoom in the placid arc stakes um he's in each way price the big fella can
Speaker 21he win um yeah i think he can bounce back like he he beat a fire giddy coals in the max simmons uh and then you know he had no luck the other day he stopped but he was entitled to stop his four to eat the trip so um he's obviously drawing a little bit sticky again saturday but and then We'll ride him with a bit more aggression against that. They put him over the speed and hope he can bounce back.
Speaker 2What about Mojo Rhythm in the RJ Peters?
Speaker 21Yeah, he's obviously getting a bit older now, but he's won two Peters before. He's upset them both times. So hopefully he can make it a third. He's had a very similar campaign to his first two Peters wins where he needs to run his first two. And then, you know, we sort of get stuck into him and he sort of peaks third up. So hopefully it's the same again on Saturday. I'm really happy with how he's going. Obviously, Rockfest and Western Miss have got a bit of youth on their side and look very progressive. So they're going to be hard to beat, but hopefully he runs well.
Speaker 2He just ruins the party for all the punters when we take the all-in on the favour for the railway. Mojo Rhythm comes along and knocks them off. Surely not this year anyway, but you are a miracle. You're a miracle man these days. So you can never rule him out. You'd have a crack keep reading. He's angelic. Would you be backing any of those?
Speaker 21Yeah, I'd be back and have a crack. I think he's really, really good. So he's obviously got his fair share of barrier issues, but if he leaves the gates clean, he's a really good horse. Keep reading. And the same race was, you know, dead stiff the other day. So hopefully he can get a bit of luck from the bad draw and he'll run well as well. But yeah, I think have a crack will be really hard to beat.
Speaker 2If I gave you $100, what would you do with it this weekend, Mitch?
Speaker 21Oh, I'd just have have a crack into Profit Motive, into Basset Hound and living on an island off Coast of Melbourne somewhere.
Speaker 2Yes, yes. You bought two of them recently, they tell me. Race two, number four, have a crack. Into race seven, number 10, Basset Hound. Into race eight, number two, Profit Motive. Any winners at Bunbury or Albany tomorrow?
Speaker 21I got one today, I reckon, off the Richter. I think he'll be really hard to beat. He was unlucky the other day on Melbourne Cup day. And yeah, if he gets a bit of luck today, I think he can win.
Speaker 2Off the Richter there at Bunbury. Go and get it, mate. Well done. You're kicking plenty of goals and good luck for the start of the Pinnacles on Saturday. Thanks, Gareth. Cheers, mate. There's a rising star, Mitch Pateman. So interesting, Profit Motive, her last preparation for Mitch Pateman before she comes to the Eastern States. He might train her or he might give her to someone else to train. Obviously, she is the exciting prospect, I think, heading towards the Pinnacles this time around. 38 minutes past 11, essay time next, and then it's Tassie time after that.
Speaker 1This is Giddy Up,
Speaker 2Gareth Hall with you. It's time now for essay time, and it's part of the Thursday Fall Lounge, brought to you by the Rising Sun. Hotel in South Melbourne. Backing winners with premium stakes, high-quality service, and the thrill of every race day. And our essay racing update is brought to you by daretodream.com.au, where the next champion racehorse could be yours. From Racing Essay, Arlan Kaysler joins us here on this Thursday morning. Arlan, thanks for your time, mate.
Speaker 22Absolute pleasure, mate. How are you?
Speaker 2Jeez, I've been loving your podcast as well as you keep me updated on South Australian racing. But it's been a busy day. Busy spring for you there in Essay.
Speaker 22It has, yeah. And we've had some really good results across the border. You know, Smooth Chino was a great result for Indiana Winer. We're claiming him over here now. Our friends in WA still
Speaker 2can't cop that, Arlan, that you're claiming Smooth Chino. But he is from Gawler, I guess, now, isn't he?
Speaker 22Yeah, we've nicknamed him the Gawler Brawler. So he's definitely one of ours now. When he wins the Meteorite next week, we'll be claiming him for sure. But good to see Watch Me Win get a slot in that race next week too.
Speaker 2Joe Glewis was probably about 48 hours too late when he got in contact with me with Watch Me Win because he wanted the Giddy Up slot, of course, for the Meteorite at Cranbourne on Saturday week. But I'm glad that they've got a slot with Watch Me Win. Now he can run second to us, but I hope he runs a big race after winning the Fisher Stakes.
Speaker 22Yeah, look, just been an amazing horse, 650 grand for Connections. And I thought that run in Rising Fast was really good. Just can't believe the market missed him. Well, I didn't have anything on him either, but yeah, great result. And we just love seeing our horses mix it up, mix their form over there and get the chocolate. So well done to the stable and hopefully another result our way with Richard Jolly and Brett Emall on Saturday.
Speaker 2Now, Heath Pope, our expert for racing SA here on Giddy Up, he texted me on Sunday and said, Gareth, I've never really seen a horse rate like this for a long time in SA. Confucius Flyer, it was off the charts when you have a look at the numbers there. Like, how good do you think this galloper can be, Arlan?
Speaker 22Well, everyone I've spoken to who was on track on Saturday is just raving about him. I was looking at the top rate figures that Dan O'Sullivan puts out and he was easily the best performed runner on Saturday. So we know Dan's a really good judge. And thanks to a guy who's got a really handy one on. He's got a really nice hand here. Two from three, probably should be unbeaten. But Prestige, lucky, got him on that day. And that horse came out and won on Bendigo Cup there, I think, for Matt Jenkins. So I think this guy's the limit at the moment. You know, obviously we want another good horse here in SA and I reckon we've got one in Confucius Flyer. -
Speaker 2And finals day, I think this is a wonderful initiative by Racing SA. It's been in operation for a few seasons now, but close to a million dollars in prize money on offer next weekend. - Yeah. -
Speaker 22Yeah, it's going to be a ripper. We've got all of our, obviously our final is being held next week. So what is great, it feeds a lot of prize money back into the state. So a lot of locally trained horses, locally owned horses. So getting that money back in the pockets of people who support the industry here, which is great. And I think we have nine races on the card, a couple of prizes for the best jockey, best trainer across the carnival. Free entry for people to come along. DJ called Young Franco spinning some tunes after the races and plenty of other stuff, including heaps of giveaways for our community club, some stuff like that. So last year we got cruel bias and bad weather, but the weather's looking good already for next Saturday. So if you do love a day at the races, come along. You can't beat a free day out at the track. -
Speaker 2And I was looking at the horses at South Australian have bred in recent times. You've got your awards night for the SA breeders, I think next Friday night. And for the horse of the year, Angel Capital, Galaxy Patch, Arctic Glamour, Q-Man, the Great Ray McNerio, all in the running. I think it was, was it Rathmore Bloodstock that bred the Derby winner, Stormy Marko as well. So you are batting well above or punching well above your weight really there when it comes to breeding these stars of the Australian turf there in SA. -
Speaker 22Yeah, Ross obviously did a cracking job with Stormy Marko. Sold him as a 70K wingling and got picked up by Chris Waller and all that at the yearling sale, I should say. But SA, we've bred three of the last eight, the Derby winners. So there's something in the water over here with those staying races. So hopefully the Derby stays at 2,500 metres 'cause we've got the knack of breeding one over here. But as you said, Angel Capital has been a great horse. Obviously finally got that group one this season, but was three times group one place last season. And probably got to think he's gonna be the horse to beat in this year's SA breeders horse of the year. -
Speaker 2Good on you, Alan. Appreciate that update. -
Speaker 22Pleasure, mate. Always great to chat.
Speaker 2There's Alan Kaisler there from Racing SA. One of the superstars of SA racing is Richard Jolly. And on the weekend, he celebrated with his daughter Chantelle, their 500th winner in partnership. Richard joins us now. Congratulations, mate. Well done there. -
Speaker 23Yeah, thanks, Gareth. It wasn't something that probably snuck up on us a bit. I wasn't really aware of it till I was told it was on the cards. -
Speaker 2Has she made you a better trainer? -
Speaker 23Well, she's taken a bit of workload off, put it that way. - Yeah. - But now she's, she's making babies at the moment. So I'm back. -
Speaker 2Okay, you're doing all the work. -
Speaker 23Got me under the pump again, yeah. -
Speaker 2She's obviously doing something more important, but so we've seen it a little bit more these days with training partnerships. But when you talk to the trainers that take on someone younger, really, to join their partnership, it does give them a bit of an extra spring in their step. Has Chantelle done that for you? -
Speaker 23Oh, yeah, for sure. I think, you know, you can get a bit complacent in this game and certainly someone younger, you know, once you've been there and done it all, you know, sometimes it can become a bit of a chore, but you get someone under you that's keen and wants to get more horses and more winners. And it does, yeah, it gives you a bit of a second win,
Speaker 2for sure. - You started off the two-year-old season pretty well. -
Speaker 23Yeah, look, that was good to get the first horse, we've acquired from Yulong, they gave us to train and she's only a little filly, but yeah, she certainly can run along all right. And it was good to get a winner for a big organization. -
Speaker 2Yeah, that was Miss Parton, hard copy there, quenellering that two-year-old race there last weekend in SA. And then of course, you've got a talented galloper going around the Doveden Stakes at Sounden, Brenna Maul, who is the favorite there with Bet365, five in, um, this race. at Sandown on Saturday. He does look mighty hard to beat, doesn't he, this son of Peltz? Craig Williams aboard. Your thoughts about his chances there on Saturday at Sandown?
Speaker 23Yeah, look, he's a pretty progressive type. The one first up, obviously, here, we kind of threw him in the deep end a bit on Cox Plate Day, although it was a lot stronger than what he'd been up against. But in saying that, it wasn't a quality kind of race. But, you know, look, another stride, and he probably wins. He just didn't quite get there in time. He still did a bit wrong. He jumped terrible. Probably just cost him winning, you know, just the way he came out the gates. So, look, as a horse, there's still plenty of upside. He's still learning. But, look, this race tomorrow, there's probably some better-performed horses in it, but I don't know whether they're in career-best form looking at him. So, you know, the way he is, the way he ran the other day, he looks to map. Well, probably just behind the speed. So, I think Sandown, probably 1,100 is his sweet spot. But, you know, Sandown's a pretty tough 1,000 up the hill. So, you know, he'll be strong late. You know, hopefully he can run over the top of him.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's definitely the horse on the up in that race, race six, the Doveton Stakes, over the 1,000 metres. You've got a host of chances at Morpheville on Saturday. If I gave you $100 this weekend, Richard, what would you do with it?
Speaker 23Look, I think. I think I'd probably go Arizona Dreamer race two into probably Sicilian Princess in the third. I'd probably multi them up. We've got a host of other chances. The horse in the first is a nice horse, pure crown. Whether he just. The 1,000 might be a bit slick for him, but he'll be hitting the line strong. All Too Misty in the last, she's been going terrific this prep. Yeah. She draws a low goal. And, you know, she'll give a really good sight. So, yeah, we've got a lot of good chances to Torey. He's probably in his right race. Yeah, the list goes on.
Speaker 2So, I love it. So, we're going to have race two, number six, Arizona Dreamer into Sicilian Princess, race three, number eight. But I'm backing pure crown in the first. I'm going to have something in All Too Misty. And to Torey each way, race seven, number two, will do me nicely. And then I'm going to go, when I go back to South Australia, to the Barbecue Inn. Now, what would your recommendation be there? And where is the Barbecue Inn? Because they tell me you go there every Friday, Richard.
Speaker 23Yeah, it's a regular event. We've actually got a Barbecue Inn syndicate with 25 blokes. We have a lunch show every three months or so. But just, we normally have a table of six most Fridays. And you go, usually, it depends on how big a reader you are. But I always go to the Porterhouse or the iFillets. Beautiful. You can either have some prawns on top or a kidney with it.
Speaker 2All right, then, yeah, I'll be there at the Barbecue Inn next time in the City of Churches. Good on you, mate. Thanks for that, Richard. No worries. Thank you. There's Richard Jolly there. Time for Tassie time. Matty Reid is about to join us, of course. The cheers are louder. Tassie, the perfect place to race.
Speaker 24G'day, Matty. Morning, Gareth.
Speaker 2Barry Campbell, there's no stopping him. Obviously, does a lot of work for Star Thoroughbreds. But, boy, he's got some strike, right?
Speaker 24Yeah, last year, he was, I think, 50 winners. He's at 28%, Gareth, and he's working on a similar strike rate this year. He owned last night's quarter at Launceston. He had the first three winners there. I think Arendelle was a standout in the Star Thoroughbred colours that you just alluded to. Potentially a Devonport Cups horse, maybe a Wait for Age horse. He's got an embarrassment of riches heading towards a lot of those races. Gee, I mean, we'll see Mazzini and Durazzo in the new market next week, but they'll proceed to the Wait for Age races. He's got horses like Benefit. He's got Fishery and Night Invader and Arendelle and Tusker G that are heading to potentially Devonport Cups and those races. So he dominated last year, Barry. He'll be dominating this year's features again, I think, over the summer.
Speaker 2Who wins the Tassie Gold Cup and the Dogs tonight? Mickey Stringer has King Haas. But David Gill, the superstar Victorian trainer, started a campaign, a few dogs there as we get set for the group one, the Hobart 1000, which is just after the Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 24Yeah, it is. We're, what, probably just over a month away from the Hobart 1000, Gee. So looking forward to that. Look, I think King Haas gets the Gold Cup for Mick, drawn in the red. It's flying at the moment. I think six in a row it's going for tonight. And, yeah, David Gill brings across mine and Mick for the invitation. He's sort of lining up his ducks for the Hobart 1000. Of course, he won it last year with Slick Badgers. So we'll see how that dog goes tonight. And I think it's probably a bit of a trial for it to see, if it'll stick around for the 1000.
Speaker 2Good on you, Matty. Boy, we'll catch up with you next week. We want you to tip the card for us at Launceston. That'll be great. Next Wednesday. That would be nice, Gee. I'll do my best. Good on you, brother. Thanks for that, Matty.
Speaker 24See you, mate.
Speaker 2Steve Devenroy joins us. Of course, the boss of the Tasmanian Trodding Club. They've got a big night of harness racing tomorrow night at Hobart. And Steve joins us now. G'day, Steve. G'day, mate. How are you? Good, thank you. It is one of, good thanks, mate. It's one of your biggest nights of the year there tomorrow night.
Speaker 25Oh, yeah. Outside of the Tasmanian Cup, we get a good crowd. We've got 40 sporting clubs come along and participate. They all draw a horse and can win. There's a couple of prize thousand dollars, the winner, and a couple of 500s and wine and beer to give away. So, yeah, it's a good night.
Speaker 2And obviously $10,000 in prizes for those 40 local sporting clubs that will be there in attendance.
Speaker 25Yeah, plus the trainers, owners, and drivers of the horse that runs the fastest. Mile rate also pick up some good coin. $10,000 to the owners. Yeah. Yeah. I think the driver even gets two and a half. Okay, geez. Half your luck.
Speaker 2Yeah. And you changed the programming a little bit now for your feature race season. So, you've got the Group 3 Hobart Cup and the Tassie Cup, both to be run next month. The inspiration behind that?
Speaker 25We had, we were in March, but it moved around because you've got the Easter Cup, obviously, it used to be Easter, and Easter kept moving. So, we got crowds. We crunched in a bit with Hobart, Launceston, Gallup Cups. So, moving back to December where we originally were before the interliminium went to December, but now that's moved again. You know, it's freed that up. It's a bit of a carnival we've put together with Launceston. So, you've got the Golden Apple for $50,000 at the end of November, then Hobart Pacing Cup for $50,000, and then, obviously, the Tassie Cup for $150,000, group one race.
Speaker 2So, you see, your club does a wonderful job, and we see a lot of the Victorian trainers as well. Especially head to Tassie to take all of your prize money. You've been in this game a long time, Stephen. You've put in a lot of hard work because of your passion for this game. How do you think the sport is going in Tassie from a breeding perspective and, obviously, with your field sizes and the competitive nature of the sport now in Tassie?
Speaker 25Yeah, it's probably on the up, I think. I think this weekend they actually put an extra race. So, Launceston, we've got the nine races down here, and they've got a similar card. So, there's plenty of horses around. And, you know, to be fair, there's not that many, you know, it gets over-publicized, the Victorians that come and take all the money. I mean, they do their fair share, but we looked at it. I mean, there's plenty of money for locals. I mean, our two-year-olds and three-year-olds and maidens race for $14,000 every week. You know, one and two win horses. And I was just looking through the program, actually, you know, the next few months, with these big races, even the Country Cups are worth $20,000 for $60,000 and better. Terrific money. So, yeah, yeah. There's plenty of opportunity for everyone. Breeding's a challenge for everyone, I think. But it's sort of stabilized a bit. You know, there's some pretty good Tassbred bones this year, but we're not going to survive on Tassbred-only horses. But, yeah, I think you've got to stay positive, mate. That's how it is.
Speaker 2100%. And I think the sport's lucky to have someone like you in this game. But we wish your club the very best of luck tomorrow. And good luck to those sporting clubs that will be in attendance. Hopefully, they can win some of those prizes that are on offer. We appreciate your time, as always, mate. And I'm looking forward to catching up with you before that Hobart Cup and Tassie Cup there in December.
Speaker 25Well, you better come down, mate. I will. You went to Lonnie last time. You better come down.
Speaker 2I'll come to Hobart for sure, mate. I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for that. Thanks for that. Good on you, mate. There we go. There's Steve Deveno from the Tassie Trotting Club. Invincible Chase, the $1.45 favourite. At Eagle Farm. Dominates the market there. That is it for a busy Giddy Up. We appreciate your company, as always. I'm about to jump in the car and head to Dunkeld. And we'll be live from Dunkeld tomorrow morning. So hopefully, you can join me there from 8 o'clock. But thanks for your company, as always. If you miss any of our segments or interviews, all you need to do is subscribe to Giddy Up with Gareth Hall, with your local podcast subscriber, and you can cut up on our show that you have missed if you didn't join us this morning. But have a great day.
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