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Turfling
Australasia
Tuesday 29 September 2026
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The lead
Blue Door is locked into The Everest by Newgate and GPI
Newgate Farm and GPI Racing have secured Blue Door for the $20 million Everest at Royal Randwick on 17 October, after the Stay Inside filly won the Group 3 ATC Heritage Stakes over 1100 metres at Rosehill on Saturday. She is owned by John Singleton and trained by Bjorn Baker, who put her forward as an Everest contender immediately after the win, and she has two wins and two seconds from four starts (Breednet).
The pair won the race in 2023 with Think About It. Blue Door joins Ka Ying Rising, in the Hong Kong Jockey Club slot, Ninja for Fairway Thoroughbreds and Headwall for Max Whitby, Col Madden, Steve McCann and Neil Werret among the runners confirmed so far. Newgate put the announcement plainly: “BLUE DOOR locked in” (Breednet).
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Things to know today
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Changing Colours gave Lucy Yeomans her first Group winner as a trainer in the $300,000 Group 2 Stocks Stakes over 1600 metres at Caulfield on Sunday, the six-year-old The Autumn Sun mare winning by a length in 1:36.41 on a Good 4 under Blake Shinn, Yeomans’ partner. A $400,000 Magic Millions yearling from the Vinery Stud draft and a half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner Nettoyer, she has seven wins and eight placings from 20 starts. “Group Two winning trainer, sounds quite nice doesn’t it?” Yeomans said (Breednet) |
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Puntin led all the way in the $150,000 Dubbo Gold Cup over 1600 metres on Sunday, the five-year-old Super Seth gelding beating Tom Vegas by a length and a half in 1:33.31 on a Good 4 for Bjorn Baker and Adam Farragher. The win books him into the $3 million Listed Big Dance over 1600 metres at Randwick on 3 November. A $60,000 Karaka purchase from the Haunui Farm draft, he now has five wins and seven placings from 18 starts (Breednet)
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Dulce Caballo won on debut at Riccarton on Saturday, the three-year-old Exceedance filly beating Zafar by half a length over 1200 metres in a race that also drew the stakes winner Enchantment. Lance Robinson will take her to the Group 3 Barneswood Farm Stakes over 1400 metres at Ashburton on Saturday week before deciding on the Group 1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas. “When she ran second in her last trial, they went three seconds faster than any other heat,” Robinson said (LOVERACING.NZ, Breednet) |
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Jenni in Rome won a 795 metre juvenile trial at Warwick Farm on Monday morning by four lengths for Richard and Will Freedman and Jason Collett, crossing from an outside gate to lead. The filly is from the second crop of Cambridge Stud’s Sword of State, sire of Saturday’s Golden Rose winner Warwoven, and was a $130,000 Karaka purchase from the Cambridge Stud draft. Her ownership group includes Tony Ottobre, who races Pride Of Jenni (Breednet) |
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Carlaw Park is moving next month to Parkvale Farm, a 41 hectare property just over seven kilometres from Matamata racecourse with 33 boxes, a 1000 metre all weather track, a covered walker and two treadmills. Nick Fairweather and Nicole Brown founded the business in 2016 with Brown’s parents Peter and Roslyn and will keep the name, spelling horses and preparing yearlings for the Australasian sales. “It’s a new location and a new chapter for Carlaw Park,” Fairweather said (Breednet) |
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Baaeed has his first stakes winner, the two-year-old filly Curracloe taking the Group 3 Darley Fillies Stakes over seven furlongs at the Curragh on Sunday by nearly three lengths for Johnny Murtagh, Ben Coen and Qatar Racing. The Shadwell stallion, who stood at £55,000 this year, has six winners from 24 starters. His first Southern Hemisphere bred two-year-olds are all Yulong bred, among them the $300,000 Magic Millions filly Red Tape Lady, now with Chris and Corey Munce (Breednet) |
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International
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Europe
A 1.4 million euro Justify filly tops the first day of the Goffs Orby
Day one of the Goffs Orby Book 1 Yearling Sale was topped at 1.4 million euros by lot 154, a Justify filly out of Multilingual and a half-sister to the 2025 champion three-year-old filly Minnie Hauk. Camas Park Stud consigned her for the breeder Ben Sangster and MV Magnier bought her. Minnie Hauk topped the same sale in 2023 at 1.85 million euros, won three Group 1 Oaks and was second in last year’s Arc de Triomphe. Justify has sired 20 stakes winners worldwide in 2026, four of them at Group 1 level, and his sons City of Troy and Storm Boy have their first foals on the ground at Coolmore Australia this spring. “With the way Justify is going, we’d have the utmost confidence in him,” Magnier said (Breednet)
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Hong Kong
Nichola Yuen rides a first treble as New Zealand horses take Sha Tin
Nichola Yuen rode her first Hong Kong treble at Sha Tin on Sunday, the 26 year old taking the card on Causeway King, Victor The Winner and Aeroinvincible. She rode 10 winners from 99 rides during her time based in New Zealand, and is now on 20 Hong Kong wins from 137 rides since returning, which drops her claim from 10lb to 7lb. She is indentured to Ricky Yiu, who trains Causeway King. Six of the 11 races went to horses with New Zealand connections, among them the Hong Kong Derby winner Invincible Ibis in the Group 3 Celebration Cup. “Now down to seven pounds, my career starts again and hopefully the ball keeps rolling for me,” Yuen said (Breednet)
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The week ahead
| 3 October |
Epsom Handicap Day at Royal Randwick |
| 10 October |
Livamol Classic at Hastings |
| 13 and 14 October |
New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run breeze ups at Te Rapa |
| 17 October |
The Everest at Royal Randwick |
| 31 October |
Victoria Derby Day at Flemington |
| 18 and 19 November |
New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka |
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