TWO GOOD! Zahra wins back-to-back Melbourne Cups on Without a Fight as three horses pull up lame
Without a Fight completed the rare Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double on Tuesday as star jockey Mark Zahra went back-to-back in the big one after…
Chautauqua could become Australia’s latest racing superstar to test overseas runners, with Team Hawkes considering whether or not to send their star sprinter to the Hong Kong International Raceday in December.
Co-trainer Michael Hawkes said the grey was in fine order after a stunning victory in the $2.5 million T.J. Smith Stakes (1200m) and will have his final run of this preparation in Saturday’s Group 1 All Aged Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.
“We’ll probably pull the pin after Saturday and get him ready for the spring and probably Hong Kong at the end of the year,” Hawkes told Racing.com’s Shane Anderson on RSN’s Racing Ahead.
“He has continued to please us, it’s going to be a cracking race on Saturday and we’re looking forward to it.”
Hawkes said 1400m shouldn’t pose a concern for the son of Encosta De Lago, because Chautauqua already boasts a win at the distance in last year’s Hawkesbury Guineas.
“The way the race was run last start he probably ran a genuine 1300m or further so (the 1400) isn’t going to worry us,” he said.
“He loves winding up in his races albeit at 1400 he might be a touch closer but you’ve just got to have him where he’s happy.
“He did what no horse should have been able to do coming from where he was in the run (in the T.J. Smith) against the bias and everything like that and it just proved how good of a horse he really is.”
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