Looking Ahead puts the spotlight on runners of interest across Australia and New Zealand. Whether they are a particularly well-bred or high-priced runner having their first or second start, a promising galloper returning to the track or a horse which has trialled particularly well, we’ll aim to give you something to follow.
On Tuesday, we focus on the Wagga meeting where we profile a well-related filly on debut, a maiden contender from a Group 1 family and a resuming 3-year-old from a handy stakes producing family.
Wagga Race 1, 12.50pm, Lime Leaf Catering H., $27,000, 1300m
Debutante Rubaiya (Rubick) is a half-sister to the stakes winner Royal Rada (Haradasun) and is a daughter of the $300,000 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale graduate Royal Emerger (Flying Spur), who was successful over 1600 metres. She is a half-sister to the G1 Adelaide Cup and G3 Matriarch S. winner Demerger (Saithor {USA}) and they are out of a half-sister to the G3 Summer Cup winner and G2 Todman Slipper Trial S. runner-up Majestically (Maroof {USA}).
Trainer Matthew Dale looks to have found an ideal race for Rubaiya to kick off her career in the hands of Kayla Nisbet. She rode the filly in her only trial at Canterbury where she shaped encouragingly with a third placing.
Rubaiya as a yearling
Wagga Race 2, 1.30pm, Sims Metal Management Maiden, $22,000, 1300m
Big Boss Bee Kay (Fastnet Rock) is a brother to the winner and Group 2 performer Palazzo Vecchio with their dam the dual Group 2 winner and Group 1 placegetter Palacio De Cristal (Encosta de Lago). The first dam Crystal Palace (NZ) (Palace Music {NZ}) won the G1 Queensland Oaks and she is a sister to the multiple Group 1 winner Naturalism.
Fastnet Rock, sire of Big Boss Bee Kay
Prepared at Lindsay Park by David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, Big Boss Bee Kay trialled well enough at Tatura before he made his first appearance on the synthetic track at Ballarat where he was well-supported and finished fourth. The colt can be expected to take natural improvement from the outing and makes strong appeal.
Wagga Race 3, 2.10pm, XXXX Gold Maiden, $22,000, 1000m
She’s All In (Casino Prince) was a trial winner in the spring and finished in behind the placegetters in two subsequent race day starts. She was then put aside and has drawn ideally in this 1000 metre dash to be a player on her return.
Casino Prince, sire of She's All In
Trained by Barbara Joseph and Paul and Matt Jones, She’s All In is a daughter of multiple winner Exceed Us (Exceed And Excel), whose dam Fuss (At Talaq {USA}) won the G3 Devon Park Stud S. and has also produced stakes winner Backbone (Mossman). It is also the family of the G2 Tea Rose S. winner and two-time Group 1 runner-up Longport (Casino Prince).
