\n\t\t\t\t\tBy The ANZ Bloodstock News Team\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Listen<\/p>\n
The Chris Waller-trained Autumn Glow (4 m The Autumn Sun \u2013 Via Africa by Var) moved her unbeaten record to six when she produced an impressive performance to win the Theo Marks Stakes (Gr 2, 1300m) at Rosehill on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, the $1.8 million Easter purchase never looked in any danger of surrendering her perfect record, eventually crossing the line 2.2 lengths ahead of General Salute (Russian Revolution). Pier (Proisir) came home a further 1.7 lengths away in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the Epsom Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) at Randwick on October 4 remains the mare\u2019s main target, Waller\u2019s assistant trainer Charlie Duckworth said the handicapper\u2019s assessment would ultimately determine if she pressed on to that Group 1 or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s got to be the best horse in training who is yet to win a Group 1, which is the one thing that\u2019s missing off her resume, but I\u2019m sure that will come,\u201d Duckworth said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe target was the Epsom so it will be interesting to see what weight she gets in that.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is still very lightly raced and continuing to improve. What her optimum distance is, is yet to be seen. She has got endless gears.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe must have almost given Kerrin a fright how quickly she quickened up around the home turn. She is just electric.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think he even asked her, I think he might have just been thinking about asking her and then she took off.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked whether he thought Autumn Glow would be better suited to the mile of an Epsom Handicap or brought back in distance for The Everest, McEvoy was convinced she could do either.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she\u2019ll stay further but she\u2019s got a motor as well,\u201d McEvoy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure Chris and the team will make the right call. Probably a mile because then I might be in with a chance to ride her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silverdale and Shrone Bloodstock purchased Autumn Glow from her breeders Newhaven at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Weanling Sale for $600,000 in 2022, before selling her to co-owners Arrowfield Pastoral and Hermitage Thoroughbreds for a sale-topping $1.8 million the following year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silverdale\u2019s Steve Grant said: \u201cShe was enormous, she\u2019s very special and she\u2019s only going to get better and better, that\u2019s the best part.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s such a professional and always has been. We\u2019ve got a photo of her here after we got her to the farm and you could tell straight away she\u2019s a thinker, such a kind and settled filly, even back then. If you go back to one of the Inglis videos either before or just after she sold at Easter, Rob [Petith] said she\u2019s the most special horse he\u2019d ever taken to a sale.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so happy for John Messara and the Arrowfield team and Hermitage, from our point of view we\u2019re there to sell and it\u2019s great to see people doing well with them, that\u2019s what we want.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The ANZ Bloodstock News Team Listen The Chris Waller-trained Autumn Glow (4 m The Autumn Sun \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-135988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}