This Weekend in Racing: Fabulous Flemington

Nov 6, 2020

How are you holding up everyone?

What a week, a week where racing fans are suffering from attention overload and the punters nerves of steel have been tested.

There’s been Derby Day, Cup Day, Oaks Day and every other sort of day in between.

It doesn’t stop here.

The final day of the carnival concludes with the running of the Mackinnon Stakes, which is now worth $2million and has cemented itself as a true Group One event.

ARCADIA QUEEN is one of my favourite horses and is clearly the one to beat. She’s a complete duffer on a soft track, so take no notice of her last start failure on Cox Plate day. Before that she was tremendous winning the Caulfield Stakes and is super honest. Shout The Bar recaptured her best form last start and remains the danger. Watch out for both.

The other major is the $1.5million Darley Sprint.

The Everest might seem a long time ago, but that form should hold up again for Bivouac who will have too much class for his rivals down the straight.

The Godolphin trained galloper was a fast finishing second in the Everest, having won the Newmarket earlier this year and clearly loves Flemington.

Super Saturday at Flemington racecourse

Rosehill Gardens:

The million dollar races just keep on coming in Sydney, the Golden Gift is worth a cool million dollars for the two-year-olds at Rosehill Gardens.

Hard to line-up all the form from different states here, plus it’s a rain affected track.

Sneaky Five is up from Melbourne, Ghostwriter is down from Brisbane, but I’ll stick with Captivant, who’s trained by the Snowden’s and was pretty impressive winning his only start at Randwick.

Finally at Rosehill, good luck to Kim Waugh who has three runners all with a great chance, White Boots (Race 1), Oxford Tycoon (Race 8) and Trajection (Race 9), all three handle soft ground which will be a necessity come race time.

Kim wants to train for the NSW Tycoons in The Racing League, check out her pitch video here.

 

Perth:

The Perth carnival is officially underway and will very quickly be in the spotlight.

The feature is the Group 2 Weight For Age, Lee Steere Stakes, which is an important lead-up to some big races coming up.

KEMENTARI has always been known as a horse with enormous ability but a “money muncher” as far as favourite backers are concerned.

RED CAN MAN loves the Ascot circuit and looks the one with in-form Shaun McGruddy in the saddle.

 

Enjoy the weekend.

Terry Kennedy

This Weekend in Racing: Fabulous Flemington

Nov 6, 2020

Cool Jakey was the King of Warwick Farm  on Wednesday and NSW Tycoons owners would like to package the Metropolitan track and just take it wherever Cool Jakey goes after he kept his undefeated record intact. 

It’s remarkable that ‘Jakey’, trained on track and stabled across the road with Joe Pride, is one of those athletes, albeit of the equine kind, who thrives on his home ground. 

He won on debut at Warwick Farm way back in February of 2023 and the love affair hasn’t ended, Cool Jakey has now won 4 from 4 at ‘The Farm’ and there’s plenty more wins in store for your son of Pierro.

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BOUNCE BACK FACTOR 

As Tycoons were made aware of, there’s a theory in racing that when a horse suffers from cardiac arrhythmia, “you must back it next start” and they win. 

And that was certainly the message after Cool Jakey suffered cardiac arrhythmia the previous start at Randwick, with Joe Pride telling Tycoons in the pre-race late mail, “Don’t worry about what happened last start, the horse is fine and he looks great,” how right Joe was with Cool Jakey leading all the way.

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Cool Jakey battling to the line with Emmadella

Cool Jakey trainer Joe Pride, Brave Pride, Jockey Adam Hyeronimus and TK

Trainer Joe Pride and son Brave Pride, Jockey Adam Hyeronimus and TRL Rep TK

HIPPO FROM BARRIER TO BOX

Adam Hyeronimus was having his first sit on Cool Jakey and he rode him a treat. We joked before the race “just go to the front and improve your position” and that’s exactly what he did. 

“He jumped well and found a nice rhythm straight away, he had a nice time so I let him slide early into it at the 600metres so we did go a bit early. 

“He felt fantastic throughout the run and was doing it easily, so I did get a bit of a surprise how quickly he stopped. 

“So maybe I did go too early, but in saying that, maybe seven furlongs is his upper limit. On that effort he’ll be winning again” Jockey Adam Hyeronimus said.

JOE DELIGHTED

“That was good guys” trainer Joe Pride said, with a big smile to a large contingent of NSW Tycoons on Cool Jakey returning to scale. 

“Look it was nice to see him win on a track that wasn’t bottomless wet, it opens up a lot more opportunities for him. 

“In saying that if there was a 1400m for him in a fortnight on a Good track I would probably be reluctant to start him. We need to nurse him through it and the next month – six weeks isn’t going to be easy because it’s carnival time. 

Cool Jakey the king of Warwick Farm with NSW Tycoons

Cool Jakey in the winners circle with NSW Tycoons’ owners

WHATS NEXT – PACK YOUR BAGS

The Tycoons have been very patient with Cool Jakey and their patience has been rewarded. He is building a very nice career record which stands at only 13 starts for 5 wins and a minor placing and is now pushing the $200,000 in prize money. 

‘Jakey’ has initially pulled up well, but we all know that he is a delicate soul and has to be treated with kindness and Joe is reluctant to push him too hard too quickly. Which is fair enough. 

“We might even consider travelling him maybe to Melbourne or Brisbane for a wet track, we just need to look after him.

“He’s been a good horse for us, we will look after him and his best opportunities will come in the Winter,” Joe concluded. 

Congratulations to all NSW Tycoons and winning connections.

Go you good thing!

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