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Turfling
Australasia
Tuesday 13 October 2026
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The lead
Hayes puts Ka Ying Rising in Black Caviar company before the Everest
David Hayes has put Ka Ying Rising in Black Caviar’s company before the A$20 million Group 1 Everest over 1200 metres at Royal Randwick on Saturday 17 October. The Shamexpress gelding is unbeaten in his last 21 starts and won last year’s running, and in his final serious workout he covered 1000 metres on the Canterbury course, quickening the last 600 metres in 36.5 seconds (Racing News NZ, Godolphin)
Zac Purton has reservations about the Australian wet, with rain forecast for Sydney, while Hayes is unconcerned. The barrier draw is due on Tuesday night. Hayes named Godolphin’s Tempted, Joliestar and the New Zealand bred Jimmysstar as the dangers. “The way I read Saturday is we probably need to have a bad day and they need to have a very good day to beat him,” he said (Racing News NZ) Key runners only. We do not reproduce Racing NSW or Racing Australia field content.
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Things to know today
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Yulong has confirmed Angel Capital for its Everest slot, the five-year-old entire having taken the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield last month for his first win at the top level. The Chris Waller trained sprinter ran sixth in last year’s race in the James Harron Bloodstock slot, and was placed in the Newmarket Handicap and the William Reid Stakes last season. “Angel Capital is our best sprinter and has now confirmed the same as a last start Group 1 winner,” Yulong head of racing Danny Rolston said, adding that “we are realistic about the task at hand with a quality field” (Breednet) |
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Proxima Dea stayed unbeaten in the Group 3 ATC Gloaming Stakes over 1800 metres at Rosehill on Saturday, the Tarzino filly the first of her sex to win the race since Constant Flight in 1993 and the tenth stakes winner for her sire. She is a full sister to the Group 1 Queensland Oaks winner Gypsy Goddess, and is expected to step up to the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes over 2000 metres and then the VRC Oaks over 2500 metres (Breednet) |
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Peachy Keen took the McCrea Painters and Decorators Ashburton Cup over 1600 metres on Saturday by a long neck from Sir Albert, with Star Ballot third, the six-year-old grey by Reliable Man running 1:37.12 on a Soft 5 for Len and Lacy Stewart and Yogesh Atchamah. “Last campaign he didn’t want to be there and this campaign he has come back in and been full of himself,” Lacy Stewart said, with the Listed Spring Classic over 2000 metres at Riccarton the likely next start (Breednet, Racing News NZ) |
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Zorero made it three wins from five starts on the Livamol Classic undercard at Hastings on Saturday, the Per Incanto four-year-old unbeaten this preparation for Guy Lowry and Leah Zydenbos out of the Listed Warstep Stakes winner Lovecharm. He failed to meet an $80,000 reserve at the 2024 Karaka book one yearling sale, and Elsdon Park general manager Kerrie Cox said he was “the only one we couldn’t sell that year at Karaka.” The agent Bruce Perry expects maybe two more runs before any push (Racing News NZ, Breednet) |
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Breeze ups opened at Te Rapa with 191 two-year-olds going through on day one of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run breeze ups. Prima Park principal Kelly Van Dyk said her horses recorded the fastest time of the day, calling them “two nice horses,” and that she was “thrilled to have had such a good day.” New Zealand Bloodstock director of business development Mike Kneebone said he was “thrilled with the quality” and that both times and types ran consistent through the morning (Breednet) |
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National Thoroughbred Week returns from 20 to 30 November with more than 100 free events across Australia and New Zealand, launched on Monday at Malua Racing in Victoria by co-founder Vicky Leonard and the Australian Trainers Association president Troy Corstens. Stables, stud farms, spelling properties, veterinary and equine therapy clinics and racecourses will open, with a touchpoint in every state and territory, after the inaugural 2025 campaign drew more than 5,000 attendees (Breednet) |
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International
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Europe
Calandagan and Ombudsman among eleven for the Champion Stakes
Eleven horses were confirmed for the Qatar Racing Champion Stakes over a mile and a quarter at Ascot on Saturday, among them last year’s winner Calandagan, who will be ridden by Christophe Soumillon in place of Mickael Barzalona. Ombudsman, winner of the Dubai Turf, the Brigadier Gerard and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes this season, is in alongside his stablemate and pacemaker Devil’s Advocate. Aidan O’Brien has five confirmed in Gstaad, who steps up to the trip for the first time, Minnie Hauk, Hawk Mountain, Isaac Newton and Constitution River, the last of those also supplemented for the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on the same card. Jessica Harrington’s Irish Champion Stakes winner Hotazhell makes his final start before retiring to stud, with Bay City Roller, 13 days after the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, and Almaqam completing the list (The Irish Field)
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The week ahead
| 13 October |
Day two of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run breeze ups at Te Rapa |
| 17 October |
The Everest at Royal Randwick |
| 17 October |
Group 1 Caulfield Cup at Caulfield |
| 17 October |
Group 1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield |
| 24 October |
Group 1 Cox Plate at Flemington |
| 30 and 31 October |
Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland |
| 3 November |
Lexus Melbourne Cup at Flemington |
| November |
New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka |
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