So to provide them with one of their greatest moments in racing will mean plenty to the expat Kiwis, who are now the Kings of Sydney racing.<\/p>\n
The TJ Smith is now nicknamed the Autumn Everest and is widely seen as Australia\u2019s second-most-important weight-for-age sprint, and Joliestar joins I Wish I Win as a New Zealand-owned winner of it.<\/p>\n
And it was a relatively painless watch, as Joliestar was away well to settle fourth, with McDonald able to hold the line he wanted before sneaking up inside the leaders and putting a winning break on the field.<\/p>\n
The win takes Joliestar past A$9m ($10.91m) in career stakes but even bathing in the glory of her win over Giga Kick, both Waller and Lindsay were thinking of June 20 at Royal Ascot and the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes.<\/p>\n
That will be Joliestar\u2019s next start, a plan over a year in the making, as the team aim at the summit of racing\u2019s highest mountain, its most glamourous meeting.<\/p>\n
The Lindsays have remarkably part-owned the winner of that race before with Hello Youmzain in 2020, who now stands at Cambridge Stud.<\/p>\n
But this year will be different and would mean more.<\/p>\n
They couldn\u2019t be at Royal Ascot that year because of Covid travel restrictions and while any win at that level is special, Joliestar has been a bigger part of their lives.<\/p>\n
They have owned her since she was a yearling and she has taken them on a ride few owners get to experience, with today\u2019s win an exclamation mark on her Australian career.<\/p>\n
So now comes Royal Ascot and a chance for the Lindsays\u2019 colours to star on the world stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cJo says I am going to look a dick in a top hat but I won\u2019t mind because I will be at Ascot,\u201d Sir Brendan said with a laugh after today\u2019s win.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo few people get a chance to have a horse good enough to go there and race at that level so we know we are very lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n
Waller says Joliestar won\u2019t race again before her Ascot adventure and he will use trials and jumpouts to keep her ticking over.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe races so well fresh we will keep her in that state and we are confident she can go up there and represent Australia and New Zealand well,\u201d said Waller.<\/p>\n
The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes isn\u2019t worth as much as the TJ Smith but if Joliestar can match another former Waller sprinter in Nature Strip and win a Group 1 down the famous Ascot straight, it will go down as one of the greatest moments in New Zealand racing history.<\/p>\n
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So to provide them with one of their greatest moments in racing will mean plenty to the expat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2851,95,79640,1558,489,2046,8608,124,2550,305,58108,190996,60629,1132,130,117,111,43,139,1536,69,2847,9769,65037,17445,9855,16189,1962,87086,313,1734,10507,1865,8982,6923,6202,190995],"class_list":{"0":"post-363144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-also","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-ascot","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-books","13":"tag-career","14":"tag-comes","15":"tag-could","16":"tag-even","17":"tag-have","18":"tag-joliestar","19":"tag-joliestars","20":"tag-mare","21":"tag-million","22":"tag-more","23":"tag-new","24":"tag-new-zealand","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-newzealand","27":"tag-next","28":"tag-nz","29":"tag-only","30":"tag-owners","31":"tag-randwick","32":"tag-richest","33":"tag-royal","34":"tag-smith","35":"tag-special","36":"tag-sprint","37":"tag-super","38":"tag-sydney","39":"tag-ticket","40":"tag-today","41":"tag-victory","42":"tag-what","43":"tag-wins","44":"tag-zealandowned"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}