Zoustar colt Fermoy, a $1.9 million Coolmore buy, did not break through in three two-year-old starts, then was three-quarters of a length away in fourth on a heavy track two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cFermoy\u2019s run was good. James [McDonald] liked it,\u201d Waller said. \u201cHe had a flat spot on a couple of wet spots [on the track], and he\u2019s finished off well. He has matured as a three-year-old, so forget his two-year-old form. He\u2019s a new horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flying Artie colt Sixties is the new horse on the scene and is coming off a seven-length midweek win.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was super impressive in his maiden win … it will be an interesting race,\u201d Waller said.<\/p>\n
Wodeton and Beiwacht return after high-profile two-year-old seasons. Wodeton, a $1.6 million son of Wootton Bassett, was a long-time Golden Slipper favourite before finishing a close second to Marhoona. Beiwacht, the Silver Slipper winner, has since joined Waller after Godolphin\u2019s move to public trainers.<\/p>\n
Waller said Wodeton\u2019s \u201cfirst target\u201d was the 1400m Golden Rose, and he would be vulnerable over 1100m.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s matured nicely, and he\u2019s furnished into a lovely three-year-old,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA bit short, the 1100, but this time of year anything can happen if you just use the Run To The Rose as your lead-up race to Golden Rose. You miss that, you\u2019re buggered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m reluctant to be running him over 1100, but I think it\u2019s an important race for him into the Golden Rose. I want to do things properly with him and see him finishing off. For him to win they have to overdo it in front.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWootton Bassett is just doing amazing things in Europe and what they\u2019re also doing, and we don\u2019t see it a lot in Australia, he\u2019s leaving them over all distances, so that might just help them stretch out to the Guineas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beiwacht, which has drawn the widest on Saturday, won the Silver Slipper from a tricky barrier at the track and over the distance, but Waller was keeping expectations in check.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough he\u2019s an 1100-metre group 2 winner, he\u2019s still a long way away from the big target,\u201d he said. \u201cI just want to learn a bit more about him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Waller said Via Sistina had recovered well from her successful Winx Stakes defence last week at Randwick, where Autumn Glow (Toy Show Quality) and Lazzura (Show County Quality) also won. He said she was likely to race in the Makybe Diva and Turnbull Stakes at Flemington before her Cox Plate defence at Moonee Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoustar colt Fermoy, a $1.9 million Coolmore buy, did not break through in three two-year-old starts, then was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-379691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115105098155986551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}