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Daily Telegraph
3 days ago
- Business
- Daily Telegraph
Brisbane Cup on cards for Kiwi import Campaldino after third straight win at Eagle Farm
Don't miss out on the headlines from Horse Racing. Followed categories will be added to My News. Former Kiwi Campaldino must have felt like he was back in his former homeland as he relished the heavy Eagle Farm conditions to take out the Group 3 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2400m). There were wild betting fluctuations in the staying event, raced on a Heavy 8 surface, as one-time favourite Immediacy took a bath in betting and blew from $4.20 to $7. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Immediacy was given a good run in transit by James McDonald but the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained gelding never fired a shot and was beaten out of sight. Punters zeroed in on former import Dillian, trained by locals Will and Peter Hulbert, and he was backed from $10 to $5.50 favourite in the belief he was a swimmer. Dillian was also well beaten but, meanwhile, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Campaldino ($7.50) was enjoying the conditions under jockey Tim Clark. This was a big step up from wins at a midweek event and the Orange Cup. But the four-year-old who started his racing career on the other side of the ditch has now put three consecutive wins on the board. 'He relished the conditions and he's been a progressive horse and he is starting to put is all together now,' Bott said. 'There's more upside there and he is racing with a bit of confidence. 'We came up here with a bit of confidence the way he'd been working since his last run and the way he's been all preparation. 'When the rain came it filled us with confidence.' Bott said it was onwards and upwards towards the Group 2 Brisbane Cup over 3200m on Stradbroke Handicap day at Eagle Farm in a fortnight. Clark said Campaldino felt like a new horse. 'He made a really big leap there coming from midweeks,' Clark said. 'He's just been a different horse since Gai and Adrian took the blinkers off him. 'He was wanting to overdo it. With the blinkers off he relaxes really well. 'He conserves his energy and it was a really dominant performance there. 'The way he's relaxing in his races is the key and I'm sure over two miles he'll do the same.' The Waterhouse and Bott and Clark team was back in business in the following race with New Endeavour taking out the Group 3 Lord Mayor's Cup (1800m). It was the former import's first win Down Under but he did boast a runner-up finish in last year's Group 1 Doomben Cup. Originally published as Brisbane Cup on cards for Kiwi import Campaldino after third straight win in Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Eagle Farm
News.com.au
3 days ago
- Business
- News.com.au
Brisbane Cup on cards for Kiwi import Campaldino after third straight win in Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Eagle Farm
Former Kiwi Campaldino must have felt like he was back in his former homeland as he relished the heavy Eagle Farm conditions to take out the Group 3 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2400m). There were wild betting fluctuations in the staying event, raced on a Heavy 8 surface, as one-time favourite Immediacy took a bath in betting and blew from $4.20 to $7. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Immediacy was given a good run in transit by James McDonald but the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained gelding never fired a shot and was beaten out of sight. Punters zeroed in on former import Dillian, trained by locals Will and Peter Hulbert, and he was backed from $10 to $5.50 favourite in the belief he was a swimmer. Dillian was also well beaten but, meanwhile, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott -trained Campaldino ($7.50) was enjoying the conditions under jockey Tim Clark. This was a big step up from wins at a midweek event and the Orange Cup. But the four-year-old who started his racing career on the other side of the ditch has now put three consecutive wins on the board. Campaldino runs away with the Queen Elizabeth II Cup and makes it three wins in a row! ðŸ�† @GaiWaterhouse1 | @clarkyhk | @BrisRacingClub â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) May 31, 2025 'He relished the conditions and he's been a progressive horse and he is starting to put is all together now,' Bott said. 'There's more upside there and he is racing with a bit of confidence. 'We came up here with a bit of confidence the way he'd been working since his last run and the way he's been all preparation. 'When the rain came it filled us with confidence.' Bott said it was onwards and upwards towards the Group 2 Brisbane Cup over 3200m on Stradbroke Handicap day at Eagle Farm in a fortnight. Clark said Campaldino felt like a new horse. New Endeavour gets his first win in Australia in the G3 Sky Racing Lord Mayor's Cup, and it's a race-to-race double for team @GaiWaterhouse1 - @clarkyhk! 🙌 @BrisRacingClub â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) May 31, 2025 'He made a really big leap there coming from midweeks,' Clark said. 'He's just been a different horse since Gai and Adrian took the blinkers off him. 'He was wanting to overdo it. With the blinkers off he relaxes really well. 'He conserves his energy and it was a really dominant performance there. 'The way he's relaxing in his races is the key and I'm sure over two miles he'll do the same.' The Waterhouse and Bott and Clark team was back in business in the following race with New Endeavour taking out the Group 3 Lord Mayor's Cup (1800m). It was the former import's first win Down Under but he did boast a runner-up finish in last year's Group 1 Doomben Cup.
News.com.au
24-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Beautiful day for Yulong as Pulchritudinous defies odds in Doomben victory
Just about everything Yulong touches seems to turn to gold. Even long-priced $31 winners in Brisbane whose names are just about impossible to say. Pulchritudinous – whose name roughly means physically beautiful or attractive – scored her first win since the Group 1 New Zealand Oaks last year when she was a quaddie killer at Doomben. Pulchritudinous wasn't in punters' sights in the Group 3 Magic Millions Fillies And Mares Mile but went bang as two of the fancied pair Vivy Air and Jennilala finished unplaced. Just Glamourous was the more fancied Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott contender but led and faded while her stablemate just got stronger over the final stages. The Yulong juggernaut purchased Pulchritudinous from her former New Zealand connections last year and have had to be patient with the now four-year-old mare to score her first win on Australian shores. Tim Clark has been her most regular jockey in Australia and was in the saddle at Doomben as the mare swamped her rivals at big odds. 'We are very thankful that Yulong has been more than happy to be patient with her and she has come back in good shape,' Bott said. 'Obviously she was very talented in New Zealand through her three-year-old career but it has taken a bit longer to get her into a bit of form and used to the conditions over here. 'We'd like to give her a couple of runs up here in Brisbane and she'll thrive in the conditions. 'I want to see her getting up in trip and she'll keep improving. 'I think today's performance was going to determine which way she'd go. 'Whether this lifts our sights a bit more, we'll try and think about the residual value for Pulchritudinous defies a big drift to win Race 6 at Doomben! @clarkyhk @GaiWaterhouse1 — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) May 24, 2025 • Yulong and see if we can add to that going forward. Importantly she is back in good shape today. 'Her trial earlier this month was the best we'd seen her since arrival and it was very encouraging.' Clark was elated Pulchritudinous's Australian drought had been snapped. 'I'm sure she's given Gai and Adrian a few sleepless nights,' Clark said. 'She's obviously came over here in good form from New Zealand and it has taken a long time for her to find that form. 'It has been a long time coming and a lot of work has gone into it. 'Full credit to Gai and Adrian and to her to be able to put in a performance like that.'
News.com.au
24-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
‘It was a very easy watch': Agarwood dominates juvenile opener at Royal Randwick
Agarwood maintained her unbeaten record with a facile win as her sire sensation, Wootton Bassett, dominated the juvenile opener at Royal Randwick on Saturday Coolmore Stud's Wootton Bassett not only sired Agarwood, winner of the Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation Handicap (1200m), he also had the third and fourth placegetters, Providence and Regulated Affair. But this was all about the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott -trained Agarwood, a naturally fast filly who jumped quickly and found the front, controlled the tempo, then sprinted clear in the straight for a consummate win. 'It was a very easy watch,'' Tulloch Lodge stable representative Neil Paine said. ' Adam (Hyeronimus, jockey) controlled it in front, the track raced beautifully and she's a terrific filly. 'This was only her second run, we know she handles wet tracks so she ticked that box, and was drawing away on the line.'' • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Agarwood, confidently backed into $1.95 favouritism gave nothing else a chance as she cruised home two-and-a-quarter lengths clear of Godolphin's game filly Matima ($10) with a long head to the Chris Waller-trained Providence ($31) who claimed third just in front of stablemate Regulate Affair. Hyeronimus said Agarwood did everything right during the race and handled the heavy 9 track conditions expertly. 'Agarwood was very professional,'' Hyeronimus said. 'She flew the gates, controlled the race and was too good.'' A $420,000 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale graduate, Agarwood is the third foal of Paulownia, a Group 2 placegetter and a full-sister to liGroup 1 -winning sprinter Foxwedge. Agarwood's rising prominence delivers an added boost to the significant worth to talented three-year-old filly Lilac who is already a dual stakeswinner. The brilliant Agarwood made a late start to her juvenile career but has quickly made up for lost time with successive city wins this month. Agarwood leads all the way and dominates in the first at Randwick! ðŸ'¥ @GaiWaterhouse1 — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) May 24, 2025 • Paine explained that Agarwood was 'only a tiny filly' and had needed time to grow and develop. 'If you have a look at her she is still not a big filly,'' Paine said. 'Agarwood was in and out (of the stable) because we were hoping to get some 'growth' on her. 'We have had her in a number of times just trying to strengthen her up so that is why she was late starting (her career).'' Paine said Agarwood was only about 15.2 hands and would not weigh 500kg so the filly has plenty of growing to do. 'She needs to strengthen out as she is a very light filly,'' he said. 'But once our horses have a couple of runs and go out for a spell they come back bigger and better.'' Paine was unclear whether Waterhouse and Bott planned to continue Agarwood's preparation and consider a stakes race in Brisbane for her in coming weeks. 'We will see how she pulls up,'' he said. 'When they have a run on a heavy track it is always a bit of a worry how they come through the race. 'But she seemed to handle everything so easily today so Gai and Adrian might look for a suitable stakes race over 1200m for her.'' Agarwood is another promising two-year-old by Coolmore's young stallion Wootton Bassett, who is second to Ole Kirk in the First Season Sires premiership. Wootton Bassett is also doing great things in Europe and such is the demand for the stallion, Coolmore has set his service fee this spring breeding season at an Australian record $385,000. Providence and Regulated Affair, two sons of Wootton Bassett, both ran well in defeat and are likely to be given their chance to earn starts in the Group 1 JJ Atkins (1600m) at Eagle Farm next month. First starter Providence made up considerable ground late in the race to claim the minor placing with Waller's stable representative, Charlie Duckworth, confirming the youngster was Brisbane-bound. 'The plan was always to take Providence to Queensland in a fortnight's time for a race over 1500m,' Duckworth said. 'He is a beautiful, scopey colt, and potentially he could go to the JJ Atkins. 'Adam rode Agarwood an absolute treat but it hindered everyone else in terms of turning the race into a bit of a sit and sprint for them but Regulated Affair still acquitted himself well. 'Regulated Affair could also go north, too. He will either have one more run down here and go up or head straight up.'
The Australian
21-05-2025
- Sport
- The Australian
Eliyass aiming to turn a 20-length defeat into Doomben Cup success
How to turn a last-start 20-length defeat into a Group 1 triumph? It will be hard, but potentially not quite as hard as you might think. Eliyass, the French-bred import that Gai Waterhouse last year declared was her most talented stayer since 2013 Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente, was beaten so far in the Hollindale Stakes he would have needed binoculars to see the winner Antino. READ: 'No two-horse race': Gollan insists chances aplenty in Doomben Cup But when a post-race veterinary examination revealed that Eliyass was coughing, stewards ordered an endoscopic examination. Nothing significant was found and, after a track gallop at Doomben on Tuesday, co-trainer Adrian Bott gave him the all clear to take his place in Saturday's Group 1 Doomben Cup. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Bott has seen big form reversals due to track conditions before and said the Hollindale was a total forget run, with Eliyass not enjoying the heavy conditions and kickback on the day. 'I think in situations where you get those kind of conditions like we saw on the Gold Coast, you do have to be very forgiving,' Bott said. 'He was getting a lot of kickback, racing in among the pack, stuff was coming back at him. 'It wasn't an ideal spot for him to be in, we will just put what happened first-up down to the track. 'I have seen big form reversals before and all we can go on is what the horse has been showing us since. 'He worked well on Tuesday morning and all is in order. 'It is probably not ideal in that it would be better for the horse to have taken some confidence from his last run. 'But the horse hasn't taken any harm from the run.' READ: Heathcote poised to spring upset with luckless $2.3m earner Eliyass will take his place in Saturday's Doomben Cup Picture: Getty Images Bookmakers are certainly being forgiving and have high respect for Eliyass which is rated a $9 chance in the Doomben Cup where he will take on fancied pair Pride Of Jenni and Antino which sit atop of betting. READ: TAB's strategic move throws early markets into a frenzy Eliyass went on a terrific winning run when he kicked off racing Down Under last year before he tired at the end of his spring campaign and did not fire in his last two runs, including in the Group 1 Champions Stakes at Flemington in November. He has drawn the widest barrier (13) in the Doomben Cup and jockey Tim Clark will have a pivotal decision to make after the gates open. Bott expects him to be in the first few as Pride Of Jenni scoots away with her freewheeling style. 'Eliyass is a horse who can generally be ridden handy to the speed anyway,' Bott said. 'Potentially, he could be one of the closest to Pride Of Jenni in the run. 'We are drawn out wide, we are going to have to be making a decision there. 'We will probably be trying to put him in the race. 'We are expecting them to run along and be strung out, that may help offset the draw as well.'
