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Originally Posted by ROLAND
Bazza what about this one
So you think
Looks to be one you can invest your AUD on , Frankel at the moment is going to run in all the top mile races this summer and definitely not the Derby |
SYT is by far the best horse to race in Australia in the 1400-2000 metre irange in the last year and a half. He won our premier weight for age race the Cox Plate (10f/2000m) in Oct 2009 as a 3yo and came back in our spring 2010 and in 6 starts won a Group 2 first up over 1400m followed by 4 Group 1s over 1800-2000m including another Cox Plate. All those races were weight for age. His last start in Oz was in the 2 mile/ 3200m Melbourne Cup which is a handicap. As a spring 4yo he gave weight to most of the field and ran 3rd.
Coolmore payed about $AU 40 million for him for a controlling share same as they did for Haradasun and Starspangledbanner, the aim being to win Group 1s in both hemispheres to enhance his stud value. He probably will do better at stud over there coz in Australia we favour sprinter/milers as stallions at stud. All our best stayers are usually bred in NZ. That is where SYT was bred.
Looking at the video on YouTube he did win easily in Ireland and I realise it was a Group 3 race but
a) Who did he beat? The rest of them were under the whip with 2 furlongs to go and he was like an exercise gallop.
b) And what about the track? It looked like it was out in the countryside somewhere and where was the crowd? Hard for us to guage in Oz coz all of our major racetracks are in the cities usually within a 15k radius of the city centre.
I do hope that SYT does perform on the world stage as sometimes you are not sure of the calibre of the opposition that he and Black Caviar are beating here
