The Tulloch Lodge stable have an Epsom Handicap Day return on the cards for dual Group 1 winner Global Glamour who is likely to resume on September 30 in the Premiere Stakes 2017.
G1 winning mare Global Glamour is set to resume in the Premiere Stakes at Randwick. Photo by Steve Hart.
As a three-year-old last spring the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained daughter of Star Witness enjoyed successive elite levels with wins in the Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick before travelling south to take out the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) in Melbourne.
She has posted just the one win since in the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) at Randwick in mid-February.
Her latest run was on April 8 during ‘The Championships’ where she ran a length back second behind Derryn in the Group 2 Arrowfield 3YO Sprint (1200m).
The team have Global Glamour a few weeks off trialling ahead of her first four-year-old campaign that is set to kick off in the Group 2 $500,000 Premiere Stakes (1200m).
Options are open for Global Glamour, but could include seeing her secure a slot in the Restricted $10 million The Everest (1200m) at Royal Randwick on October 14.
Waterhouse & Bott’s fellow gun mare English has already confirmed a spot in the inaugural The Everest field.
English has amassed over $2.5 million in prize money over her 17 career starts to date but hasn’t raced since her sixth behind Secret Agenda in the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Adelaide on May 6.
The five-year-old trialled when fourth to Redzel over 1045m at Randwick on August 21 and has a second heat scheduled at the track this Thursday morning.
That will bring English on fitness-wise ahead of her first-up start on September 16 in Group 2 $200,000 The Shorts (1100m).
English is the current $11 third favourite in The Everest 2017 odds at Ladbrokes.com.au behind Chautauqua ($4.60) and the Golden Slipper winning filly She Will Reign ($6).
Global Glamour meanwhile is also nominated for a possible run against the world’s best mare Winx in the Group 1 $3 million Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m) at The Valley on October 28.
Winx overcame a missed jump to win first-up in the Warwick Stakes and races again in Sydney on Saturday in the Group 2 $250,000 Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) up over a mile.
Winx has won the past two editions of the Cox Plate and will have at least one more Sydney start in the Group 1 George Main Stakes (1600m) on September 16 after the Chelmsford before heading south.
The mare will don ear muffs this weekend in the Chelmsford Stakes where she could take on a number of fellow Waller-trained runners including proven stayers Who Shot Thebarman and Antonio Giuseppe.
“It [the ear muffs] just helps block out the background noise,” Waller told Racing NSW this week.
“She’ll still hear Hugh Bowman say ‘it’s time to go’”.
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