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Daggers out to prove he can cut it against star colts

A Golden Rose bid is all in the family for Victorian-trained colt Daggers.

Daggers.
Daggers. Picture: Colin Bull / Sportpix

There will be an air of serendipity if Victorian raider Daggers can upstage Godolphin's two high-profile colts, Broadsiding and Traffic Warden, to win the $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill.

By I Am Invincible, Daggers is out of Omei Sword, who finished runner-up to Godolphin's Astern in the 2016 renewal of the Group 1 race.

The global powerhouse again looks to hold the aces in Saturday's Golden Rose (1400m) with its two runners, champion two-year-old Broadsiding, who tackles the race first-up, and The Run To The Rose victor Traffic Warden.

With a forecast for up to 35mm of rain in Sydney on Thursday, trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are still weighing up whether to bring Daggers north or keep him closer to home for either the Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night or Sandown a day later.

If he does make the interstate trek, they are optimistic he will acquit himself well following a sharp piece of trackwork in the Sydney direction over the weekend.

"He actually worked up with (stablemate) Craig on Saturday morning and worked up very well," Young said.

"They went the reverse way, just because some are going to Sydney. 

"They were on the grass, and he pulled up really nicely."

Daggers, who will wear blinkers for the first time in the Golden Rose, led to win his first two starts in Augus, before camping on the back of the speed when third in the Listed Exford Plate (1400m) at Flemington last start on a soft 7 track.

Young wasn't certain he was suited by the genuinely rain-affected ground, a factor likely to influence where he runs this weekend.

"Omei Sword had run second on a heavy eight before, so we thought he might get through it, but those leaders skipped away, and it was just a bit hard," she said.

A wet Rosehill track won't worry Broadsiding, who is a Group 1 winner of the Champagne Stakes (1600m) on heavy ground, while Traffic Warden has also been placed at the highest level in similar conditions.

Daggers is one of two interstate raiders in Saturday's Golden Rose, along with the Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Tropicus.

Victorian-trained horses had a field day during the Sydney autumn carnival with the likes of Chain Of Lightning (T J Smith Stakes), Magic Time (All Aged Stakes), Autumn Angel (Oaks), Circles Of Fire (Sydney Cup) and Pride Of Jenni (Queen Elizabeth Stakes) all plundering majors.


Racing and Sports

Rosehill

Saturday, 28th September 2024

8
ET

JAMES SQUIRE GOLDEN ROSE (G1)

Age: 3yo Type: OPEN
7 f TURF SOFT
8

(local)
AUD $1,023,300
7 f SOFT

JAMES SQUIRE GOLDEN ROSE (G1)

Age: 3yo Type: OPEN


FP Silk Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 1. BROADSIDING (AUS) 3yo C
TOO DARN HOT (GB) - SPEEDWAY (AUS)
JAMES MCDONALD
JAMES CUMMINGS
$2.15
56.5kg
Godolphin
2nd 2. TRAFFIC WARDEN (AUS) 3yo C
STREET BOSS (USA) - EFFICIENTLY (AUS)
BEN MELHAM
JAMES CUMMINGS
$6.5
56.5kg
Godolphin
3rd 7. MAYFAIR (AUS) 3yo C
FASTNET ROCK (AUS) - CICATRIX (USA)
BLAKE SHINN
G WATERHOUSE & A BOTT
$21
56.5kg
Newgate Bloodstock (Mgr: H A Field), China Horse Club Racing Pty Ltd, Newgate S F, Go Bloodstock Australia, Trilogy, Horse Ventures, Carpe Diem, Grant Bloodstock Pty Ltd, Starlight Racing, G1G Colts & Breeding Pty Ltd, Nick Vass Bloodstock, Aston Bloodstock & Aristia Park Bloodstock Pty Ltd.

Sales Information

4th 3. STORM BOY (AUS) 3yo C
JUSTIFY (USA) - PELICAN (NZ)
ADAM HYERONIMUS
G WATERHOUSE & A BOTT
$5
56.5kg

Sales Information

5th 8. EMIRATE (AUS) 3yo C
EXTREME CHOICE (AUS) - SWEET BOUQUET (AUS)
NASH RAWILLER
CHRIS WALLER
$14
56.5kg

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6th 4. LINEBACKER (NZ) 3yo C
SUPER SETH (AUS) - GARDEN OF SWANS (GB)
KERRIN MCEVOY
JOHN O'SHEA & TOM CHARLTON
$8
56.5kg

Sales Information

7th 9. TROPICUS (AUS) 3yo C
TOO DARN HOT (GB) - EXTENSIBLE (AUS)
MARK ZAHRA
A & S FREEDMAN
$26
56.5kg
8th 5. ANODE (AUS) 3yo C
I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS) - MYSTERIOUS LIGHT (AUS)
TIM CLARK
G WATERHOUSE & A BOTT
$20
56.5kg

Sales Information

9th 6. FEARLESS (AUS) 3yo C
PIERATA (AUS) - MATILDARE (AUS)
TOMMY BERRY
PETER SNOWDEN
$61
56.5kg

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10th 10. CLEAR PROOF (AUS) 3yo C
JUSTIFY (USA) - CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN (NZ)
CRAIG WILLIAMS
JOHN P THOMPSON
$151
56.5kg

Sales Information