Global Glamour ridden by Kerrin McEvoy trained by Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott winning the Group 1 Schweppes Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield on 8 October 2016 – photo by Quentin Lang / Copyright – Sportpix
Global Glamour (Star Witness) has made it two Group One wins in seven days after impressively leading all the way in the Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) at Caulfield yesterday. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained three-year-old employed the same tactics at Randwick last Saturday to win the Flight Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) and again proved she is the dominant filly at Caulfield.
Ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, who replaced jockey Tim Clark who rode in Sydney yesterday, Global Glamour ($4.40) defeated I Am A Star (I Am Invincible) ($21) by a length with a half-neck back to third-placed Whispering Brook (Hinchinbrook) ($8.50). The Chris Waller-trained Foxplay (Foxwedge) ($4.20 favourite) finished a length and a half behind Whispering Brook in fourth, while there was three quarters of a length back to Harlow Gold (Tavistock) in fifth place.
Bott said Global Glamour was a tough filly who handled the quick back up well. “It’s a tough ask and I think she’s a very special filly,” Bott said after Global Glamour joined Guelph (Exceed And Excel) (2013) and Dashing Eagle (1996) (Danehill) as the most recent to claim the Flight StakesThousand Guineas double.
“To do what she did last week then get on a float and come down to Melbourne and back it up in her first start at a difficult track, she’s a special filly. “Full credit to the filly. She’s come a long way. She’s racing a lot more seasoned now and has put it all together. We saw that last week and she’s improved again.”
For Waterhouse, it was the first Thousand Guineas success of her decorated training career. “She has come down here and she hasn’t missed a beat,” Waterhouse said. “And I said to Kerrin ‘all you’ve got to do is just replicate what Tim Clark did last week’. “It’s so exciting.”
Bott, 29, said he was loving the opportunity of training in partnership with Waterhouse. “She’s an incredible person to share the success with,” he said. McEvoy, who won the Thousand Guineas on Guelph, said he was confident the filly would find late the way she travelled throughout the race. “I knew I was in a nice rhythm and she’d have a kick when I asked her,” McEvoy said. “And the rest is history.”
Waller said Tea Rose Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) winner Foxplay was likely to be spelled instead of continuing on with her spring campaign. “We’ll wait and see how she pulls up but I think (it will be the end of the preparation),” Waller told Racing.com. “I think she’s going to be an exciting horse in the autumn. “She’s not overly big and I’d hate to go to the well one time too many (times) so I’d imagine she’ll spell but I’ll talk to the owners first.”
Meanwhile, the Lindsay Park-trained Harlow Gold is on track for the Victoria Oaks (Gr 1, 2500m), according to jockey Regan Bayliss. “That was a terrific run. She got to the outside and was really strong through the line and 100 metres after the line she was in front so I’m looking forward to the Oaks,” Bayliss told Racing.com. Dwayne Dunn said there were no excuses for seventh placegetter Missrock (Fastnet Rock) ($9). “She had a nice run in transit and I was trying to follow the favourite but when you look at the race the horses that were in the first five or six were that ones that were there at the finish,” Dunn told Racing.com. Rider Chris Parnham said the Henry Dwyer-trained Leotie (Darci Brahma) ($15) might need a spell. “She wasn’t the same horse today,” Parnham told Racing.com. “She was a bit flat and she’s probably looking for a break now. I doubt the setback she had was ideal for her.”
Waterhouse and Bott were contemplating what to do next with Global Glamour, with the option of freshening her up for the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas (RL, 1400m) at the Gold Coast in January or spelling her for the Coolmore Classic (registered as the TAD Kennedy Stakes) (Gr 1, 1500m) at Rosehill in the autumn. “There are a couple of options – maybe the Coolmore Classic – the 1500 metre race for fillies and mares and she’s a Magic Millions horse and all of the ladies from around the world can catch up again there perhaps,” Waterhouse said.
Global Glamour (3 f ex Spectacula by Testa Rossa) has won three of her five starts for total prize money of $641,500 and is the sole Group One winner for her Widden Stud-based sire Star Witness (Starcraft). Star Witness also produced Schillaci Stakes (Gr 2, 1100m) winning three-year-old Star Turn at Caulfield and debut juvenile winner She’s Our Star at Doomben yesterday.
Global Glamour is one of four named foals out of Testa Rossa (Perugino) mare Spectacula, Global Glamour is a half-sister to the placed gelding Harmeal (Al Maher). Her family can be traced further back to the Group Three winner Sam Sung A Song (Timber Country), while her fifth dam, the stakes winning Apollua (King Apollo) is the fourth dam to the Listed winner and Group Three placed Rocket To Glory (Shovhog).
Global Glamour was bred and sold by Victoria’s Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm, with the filly purchased by bloodstock agent James Bester for $65,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
“That was a great win,” Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm’s James O’Brien said to ANZ Bloodstock News. “She’s very tough and to win two Group Ones in a week in two states is incredible.” O’Brien told ANZ Bloodstock News after Global Glamour’s Flight Stakes victory that Spectacula would be covered by Star Witness this season. Star Witness, the sire of five individual stakes winners, stands at Widden Stud for a fee of $16,500 (inc GST)
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