Godolphin super colt Anamoe can complete a rare classic double and move closer to earning champion status in the Group 1 $1m Randwick Guineas (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday.
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GATORS ‘LOCK’ OF THE WEEK
April 8, 2021 3:01 pm
By Jackson Frantz
James Cummings-trained
Anamoe as his ‘lock of the week’.
The red-hot Gately is confident that the flashy colt can justify his short quote in the Group 1
Sires’ Produce Stakes at
Gately expects the son of
Street Boss to relish stepping out over 1400 metres, saying that his eye-catching run in the Group 1
Golden Slipper Stakes was one of the best in recent years.
“He picks himself really because you don’t see too many horses that early in their career do what he did in the Slipper,” Gately told
RSN Central.
A Kiwi-bred three-year-old claimed the Group 1 Randwick Guineas but it wasn’t the one most punters’ wanted at Randwick on Saturday.
The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Aegon was sent out a firm $2.60 favourite in the feature event but it was John O’Shea’s galloper Lion’s Roar which took the major share of the $1 million purse while the other Group 1 race of the day – the Canterbury Stakes went to Godolphin mare Savatiano.
The Golden Slipper is a fortnight away but the picture remains cloudy after the standing favourites Profiteer and Stay Inside were rolled by the James Cummings-trained Anamoe in the Todman Stakes, while Glistening gave Richard and Michael Freedman their second Slipper runner taking out the Reisling Stakes.