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G1 plans for brace of Warwick Farm winners

Private Life will join stablemate Switzerland on a Golden Rose mission.

Trainer : CHRIS WALLER.
Trainer : CHRIS WALLER. Picture: Martin King / Sportpix

Two colts on different Group One paths have opened their spring accounts with encouraging wins at Warwick Farm, headlined by Private Life who is on a march towards the Golden Rose.

The Written Tycoon three-year-old responded to the urgings of Nash Rawiller to lift under his 61.5kg topweight and land his second win in three starts in Wednesday's All Too Hard @ Vinery Stud Handicap (1200m).

The effort confirmed plans to steer him towards the Golden Rose (1400m) on September 28, either via The Run To The Rose (1200m) on Saturday week or straight off his first-up run.

"We'll try to get him to a Golden Rose because that's why the likes of these Coolmore syndicates try to buy these horses, to get to those stallion-making races," trainer Chris Waller's stable representative Charlie Duckworth said.

"It's just plotting the path there.

"He's run a smart time, he's been tested to do it, but that will strip him fitter and he'll come on from it.

"He's a beautifully bred three-year-old colt and he's going to make himself felt during the whole spring carnival."

Anthony Cummings was also rapt with the winning return of El Castello in the TAB Handicap (1400m), franking the trainer's intentions to set him for the Spring Champion Stakes (1600m) in October.

By Castelvecchio out of a half-sister to Cummings' 2012 Victoria Derby winner Fiveandahalfstar, El Castello is already a stakes placegetter, finishing runner-up to subsequent dual Group 1 winner Broadsiding in the autumn.

He will head to the Spring Champion via the Gloaming Stakes (1800m) with a trip to Melbourne also on the radar.

"He's got a really bright future and if he lives up to anything like the relations we've had through the stable he will be very effective right through the campaign," Cummings said.

"He will make his way towards the Gloaming, the (Spring) Champion Stakes and we'll see what his form looks like then."

Despite his strong form references, El Castello started at $13 and while Cummings was surprised to see him settle handy to the speed, the result wasn't unexpected by the stable.

"Not a surprise. I said to connections that he was more than capable of winning if the race worked out in his favour," he said.

"He made it his favour as he showed the adaptability to be on speed without effort and then the tenacity to stick his head out and have a go."

Waller's leading Golden Rose contender Switzerland had a solo gallop between races at Warwick Farm with Jason Collett in the saddle and the stable confirmed the colt remained on track to resume in The Run To The Rose on Saturday week.


Racing and Sports

Warwick Farm

Wednesday, 04th September 2024

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ALL TOO HARD @ VINERY STUD HANDICAP

Age: 3yo WT: 123lbs Type: BM64
6 f TURF GOOD
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AUD $60,000
6 f GOOD

ALL TOO HARD @ VINERY STUD HANDICAP

Age: 3yo WT: 123lbs Type: BM64


FP Silk Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 1. PRIVATE LIFE (AUS) 3yo C
WRITTEN TYCOON (AUS) - ALIYANA TILDE (AUS)
NASH RAWILLER
CHRIS WALLER
$2.25
61.5kg
Coolmore, Wynaus, Westerberg, J Poulin, Sir P J Vela, Lynque, Woppitt Bloodstock, Peachester Lodge Pty Ltd, Rockingham Thoroughbreds, K MacLennan, Aristia Park Bloodstock Pty Ltd & Meridian Bloodstock

Sales Information

2nd 6. LILAC (AUS) 3yo F
JUSTIFY (USA) - PAULOWNIA (AUS)
CHAD SCHOFIELD
ANNABEL NEASHAM & ROB ARCHIBALD
$3.4
58kg
Champion Thoroughbreds (Mgr: J P Abrahams), Chimaera Racing (Mgr: P J Gray), D J Kelly, Thug Thoroughbreds, L N J Foxwoods, J E Abrahams Pty Ltd, Dr C M Rogers, RKH Thoroughbreds, Ms S R Smith, Coolmore, T A Janssens, Loftus Park, Ursino Racing, Esquin, Hon. G J Williamson & F F Fairthorne (Jnr)

Sales Information

3rd 2. DECLICHY BOULEVARD (AUS) 3yo F
SNITZEL (AUS) - RED VELVET SWING (AUS)
TOMMY BERRY
CHRIS WALLER
$12
59.5kg
K Payne & Mrs V Payne

Sales Information

4th 8. TITANIUM MISS (AUS) 3yo F
ALL TOO HARD (AUS) - LARENCO (AUS)
JASON COLLETT
TRACEY BARTLEY
$13
57.5kg
5th 3. FINGERS HUNTER (AUS) 3yo F
BRUTAL (NZ) - STICKY FINGERS (AUS)
BRAITH NOCK
BRETT CAVANOUGH
$26
56.5kg

Sales Information

6th 5. CONCORDIA WIND (AUS) 3yo F
JUSTIFY (USA) - STARFISH (AUS)
KERRIN MCEVOY
CHRIS WALLER
$13
58kg

Sales Information

7th 7. RANTAN (AUS) 3yo F
I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS) - SWEET KISS (AUS)
TIM CLARK
R J QUINTON
$6.5
57.5kg