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Turfling
Australasia · Sunday 30 August 2026
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The lead
Guest House takes down the Rosehill record
Guest House came back from a Golden Slipper autumn to win the $250,000 Group 3 ATC San Domenico Stakes over 1100 metres at Rosehill on Saturday, beating Blue Door by a length and a quarter with Music Time third (Just Racing). The Home Affairs colt, trained by Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr and ridden by Zac Lloyd, ran 1:02.41 and took down Westicaro’s 2007 Rosehill course record of 1:02.51 (Breednet). He is the first Golden Slipper winning colt or gelding to win again as an older horse since Pierro in 2012, and the first to put the Slipper and the San Domenico together since Tierce in 1991 (Just Racing). “Amazing win by a very good horse. He had to race so genuine,” Price said (Just Racing). Lloyd was in no rush: “I just needed a run, but I knew I had a very good horse underneath me so I wasn’t rushing. He’s a big, robust colt and he’s only going to get better with every run” (Breednet). Three wins and two placings from five starts have earned $3.4 million, and Price named the Golden Rose, The Everest and the Coolmore Stud Stakes as the spring targets, with Coolmore now heading the ownership group and the colt going to their Hunter Valley farm at the end of it (Breednet). We name key runners only and do not reproduce barrier draws or full fields.
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Things to know today
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American Eagle stayed unbeaten in the $200,000 Group 3 MRC McNeil Stakes over 1200 metres at Caulfield, the Too Darn Hot colt holding Unit Five by 0.2 lengths for Anthony and Sam Freedman and Mark Zahra on a Soft 6 (Breednet) |
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Sam Freedman said the colt “looks the real deal”, with a Guineas Prelude next and the Group 1 Golden Rose and the Cox Plate both raised as later options (Breednet) |
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Plagiarism won the Group 3 ATC Up and Coming Stakes over 1300 metres at Rosehill by three quarters of a length, a maiden until Saturday and in front the whole way for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott with Regan Bayliss riding (Breednet) |
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Genesis Runner ran second there, Hostwin King third and Savagram fourth, and the $120,000 Inglis Premier purchase is the first winner out of the Snitzel mare Profiterole and holds an entry for the Group 1 Golden Rose on 26 September (Breednet) |
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Beiwacht led throughout in Saturday’s Memsie Stakes, running 1:23.81 on a Soft 6, the four-year-old Bivouac colt now four wins from 14 starts with $2,501,975 earned (Breednet) |
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Chris Waller will look for another 1400 metre race and settle the rest with Godolphin, who bred Beiwacht from the Street Cry mare Metastasio, with international options still open (Breednet) |
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Kingswood took the Listed MRC Heatherlie Stakes over 1700 metres at Caulfield first-up, the Roaring Lion horse winning a $200,000 race (Breednet) |
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Perfect Chaos shed her maiden status in the Listed HS Dyke Wanganui Guineas over 1200 metres, the Hello Youmzain filly beating O’Baby and Singletary for Stephen Marsh and George Rooke after a $50,000 Karaka Book 1 purchase in 2025. The stable wants her out to 1400 metres before Christchurch, with the Group 1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas the aim (LOVERACING.NZ) |
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Outback Girl won by three and a quarter lengths from Glamour Extreme in an 1100 metre three-year-old race at Riccarton, the Bivouac filly leading throughout for Stephanie Faulkner and apprentice Kendra Bakker (LOVERACING.NZ) |
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Faulkner is going straight on to the Listed Canterbury Belle Stakes over 1200 metres at Riccarton in two weeks: “Canterbury Belle Stakes here we come” (LOVERACING.NZ) |
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Belles Beau carried 60.5 kilograms to win over 1200 metres at Wanganui by two lengths from Amazing Son and Belzoni for Robbie Patterson and Craig Grylls. Patterson called him a Group 1 contender, will pass next week’s Group 1 Proisir Plate and may go to the Group 1 Howden Insurance Mile instead, weight for age now being a necessity on the six-year-old’s handicap (LOVERACING.NZ) |
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Bokushi completed a Wanganui double for Patterson in the 1340 metre Wanganui Chronicle race, holding off Trainwreck under apprentice Lemmy Douglas (LOVERACING.NZ) |
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Oliveanotherday won the $200,000 Group 3 Heath Stakes over 1100 metres at Caulfield in 1:03.81 on a Soft 6, the four-year-old Nicconi gelding beating Bridal Waltz by a length and a half with War Machine third for Tom Dabernig and Harry Coffey. Dabernig named the Group 2 Bobbie Lewis at Flemington and the Group 1 Manikato Stakes as the next targets (Breednet, Just Racing) |
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International
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America
Leading Change wins the Travers
Leading Change won the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga, the $1.25 million race over a mile and a quarter run at 6:35pm Eastern on Saturday, which was 8:35am here this morning (New York Racing Association). Manny Franco rode for Brad Cox and beat Preakness winner Napoleon Solo and John Velazquez by half a length, with Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner Golden Tempo and Jose Ortiz third, a length and three quarters behind the runner up, and Renegade eighth (Daily Gazette). “We were substituting talent over seasoning, and that means a lot. It’s very hard for a horse to come into the Midsummer Derby and only have two starts,” Cox said (Daily Gazette). Franco got the trip he expected: “We turned for home, I put him on the outside and he just leveled out” (Daily Gazette). Cherie DeVaux said Golden Tempo “was far back. It just didn’t work out with the lack of pace” (Daily Gazette). This item has been updated since the edition was sent, which carried the race as still to be run.
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Europe
Zavateri returns in the Celebration Mile
Zavateri won the Group 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood by three and a half lengths from Qirat, with a further two and a quarter lengths back to Fast Tracker, Charles Bishop riding for Eve Johnson Houghton (TDN). It was the Without Parole horse’s first win since last year’s Vincent O’Brien National Stakes (TDN). “He travels with his teddy bear as his comfort blanket, but he is a machine. The QEII is where we’re going. End of conversation,” Johnson Houghton said (TDN).
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The week ahead
| Today, AEST |
The Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga has been run and won by Leading Change (Daily Gazette) |
| 31 August |
Bidding closes at noon AEST on the ten per cent Private Eye share, Lot 1 of the Magic Millions Digital Sale (Breednet) |
| 2 September |
The Magic Millions Digital Sale closes at noon AEST (Breednet) |
| Next week |
The Group 1 Proisir Plate over 1400 metres in New Zealand (LOVERACING.NZ) |
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The Listed Canterbury Belle Stakes over 1200 metres at Riccarton (LOVERACING.NZ) |
| 26 September |
The Group 1 ATC Golden Rose over 1400 metres (Breednet) |
| 12 October |
The Magic Millions Gold Coast Horses in Training Sale at Bundall (Breednet) |
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