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News.com.au
03-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Media World wins the Hawkesbury Guineas for Peter Snowden
Media World enhanced champion trainer Peter Snowden 's already outstanding record at the Hawkesbury stand-alone meeting with a courageous frontrunning effort to win on Saturday. The superbly-bred Media World held off the late surge of Just Party to win the Group 3 $250,000 Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m). Snowden has a real affinity with the iconic Hawkesbury meeting with Media World giving him a record fifth win in the Guineas after previous successes with Exoboom (2021), Military Zone (2019), Limes (2013) and Free Wheeling (2012). The master trainer has also won five Clarendon Stakes including with Media World last year. Media World becomes a rare dual winner at the Hawkesbury stand-alone and joins Royal Discretion (2007-08) as winners of the Clarendon Stakes-Hawkesbury Guineas double. 'This is a very good race meeting and I like to target it with the right type of horse,'' Snowden said. 'We deliberately held Media World back with the Hawkesbury Guineas in mind for him. 'It's great that he can come here and win another nice race.'' Media World ($9), ridden by Tyler Schiller, held off the fast-finishing ($5.50 equal favourite) to win the Guineas by a nose with Zeitung ($12) one-and-a-half lengths away third. ðŸŒ� Media World hangs on in the G3 @hawkesburyrc Guineas and makes it two in a row! @SnowdenRacing1 | @G1TySchil | @YulongInvest — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) May 3, 2025 Candlewick ($5.50 equal favourite) had the run of the race but she faded late to finish sixth, beaten just over there lengths. Schiller said he was able to give Media World a 'breather' in the middle stages of the race which proved crucial in the sprint to the line. 'Once he did quicken from the top of the straight, although the challengers were there he always felt like he was toughing it out,'' Schiller said. 'When it counted he was in front on the line, which was good. He is a very sharp horse. 'Pete was more worried about second-up after having a tough run first-up that he was going to be a bit soft but to see him strong right through the line was great. 'I know that other horse dashed at him but he felt like he kept going through the line. He is going to improve into his preparation again, he's a really honest horse.'' â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– â– Snowden said he was concerned that Schiller might have made too much use of Media World early to get across from his wide barrier and find the front. 'Media World was a touch slow to jump and I thought he might have made a bit too much use of him early to get there but once he did, the horse relaxed really well,'' Snowden said. 'He got into a lovely rhythm. He's got that really good skipping action and he quickened nicely so it was a good result.' Media World is by champion sire Written Tycoon out of the stakes-winning Meryl and was purchased by Yulong for $1.4 million at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale two years ago. Breeders Francis and Christine Cook kept a share in Media World and were rewarded with the colt's valuable Group 3 win. 'This colt was Meryl's first and it was Written Tycoon's last service at Arrowfield and we got it at a good price there before he went down to Yulong,'' Francis Cook said. 'We ran second with Dalchini beaten a nose (to Mr Mozart in the 2022 Hawkesbury Guineas) but to get across the line with a horse we bred, I'm a bit teary.'' Snowden said there was some thought given to gelding Media World last year. 'We were very tempted to geld him but Yulong wanted to give me one more chance with him as a colt and I'm glad they did,'' Snowden said. 'Already its paid dividends, he's won a Group race here today and I hope he can go on further and go to Brisbane and do something else. 'I will take him to Brisbane for the Fred Best (Classic) next. I'm hoping he could emerge as a Stradbroke Handicap – he's heading in the right direction, that's for sure.'
News.com.au
01-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Matt Dunn moves on from Magic Millions disappointment ahead of exciting colt Torque To Be Sure's return at Eagle Farm
After being stuck in a Gold Coast Magic Millions pickle, one of the best youngsters Matt Dunn may have ever trained returns to the races on Saturday. Torque To Be Sure had qualified for the Magic Millions 2YO Classic in January but needed to trial before stewards' satisfaction in race week after a bar was placed on him because of his racing manners. • 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! Torque To Be Sure had started the $1.55 favourite in the Aquis Gold Nugget but finished runner-up after racing ungenerously and being steadied on numerous occasions as well as hanging out. With the Magic Millions only a week away, stewards ordered Torque To Be Sure back to the trials before they would pass him to race. Dunn found a set of Lismore trials on the Thursday – only two days before the Gold Coast Magic Millions – but decided it was too close to the $3m race and instead sent him for a spell. As it turned out, the 2YO Classic was rescheduled to the following week because of torrential rain on race day but Torque To Be Sure was already in the spelling paddock. It was an annoying situation but, regardless, Dunn is sure he has a high-quality colt on his hands. Torque To Be Sure resumes in the Listed Dalrello Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday where he has been strongly backed from his opening $6 price into the $4 favourite. Quietly Arrogant too good in the Aquis Gold Nugget ðŸ'° @blake_shinn @SnowdenRacing1 — 7HorseRacing ðŸ�Ž (@7horseracing) January 4, 2025 'I was very close to trialling him just before the Magic Millions to try to get him cleared to take his place, but I wasn't quite brave enough,' Dunn said. 'We were looking at trialling Thursday and running Saturday but I couldn't quite convince myself to do it. 'As it turned out, it would have been fine as the Magic Millions was postponed and run seven days later anyway. 'Everything has gone well with this colt since, he trialled a couple of times in April and he was perfect. 'He has got those extra few months of maturity now.' While Saturday's race is over the 1000m scamper, Dunn has aspirations of getting his colt to the 1600m of the Group 1 JJ Atkins on Stradbroke Handicap day in June. With that in mind, he wants jockey Andrew Mallyon to ride the colt back in the field and rattle home on Saturday. 'He is a very good horse, a very fast horse,' Dunn said. 'If you take his last run out of the equation, he has got the right attitude. 'As long as his brain lets him, he has got a pedigree to run a mile. 'Honestly, on Saturday, it's not the end of the world if he gets too far back and gets beaten. 'I'd much rather see him get back and finish at a million miles and hour and just miss, rather than over do things in the race.' Torque To Be Sure is still yet to break his maiden status, having finished runner-up at both starts including on debut in the $250,000 The Debut race at the Gold Coast in December. Dunn had intended stablemate Boom Torque to race in Sunday's $1m The Archer slot race in Rockhampton, in the first plank of a plan to lead to the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap.
