\n\t\t\t\t\tBy Trevor Marshallsea\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Listen<\/p>\n
Flying filly Tempted (Street Boss) showed her rare class with a dominant victory over a field of males in Saturday\u2019s Run To The Rose (Gr 2, 1200m) at Rosehill, extending Godolphin\u2019s extraordinary record in the race and also put herself in calculations for The Everest (Gr 1, 1200m).<\/p>\n
Despite being the only female among the dozen three-year-olds competing, the Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) third placegetter was backed strongly from $5 into $3.90 favouritism and performed accordingly.<\/p>\n
Jumping from gate five, Ethan Brown settled Tempted in midfield behind a group of five as second elect Raging Force (Cosmic Force) set a solid pace.<\/p>\n
Godolphin\u2019s second runner Beiwacht (Bivouac) made a concerted run to take the lead at the 200m, but Tempted swept home down the outside to beat the Chris Waller-trained colt by 1.55 lengths, with Skyhook (Written Tycoon) surging home for third.<\/p>\n
Tempted may be prepared by Ciaron Maher these days after Godolphin\u2019s switch to public trainers, but the song remained the same in terms of the royal blue army\u2019s domination of the Run To The Rose.<\/p>\n
Celebrating their quinella, Godolphin have now won the last five runnings of the race, and six of the past seven thanks to James Cummings-trained runners Bivouac (Exceed And Excel) in 2019, and Anamoe (Street Boss), In Secret (I Am Invincible), Cylinder (Exceed And Excel) and Traffic Warden (Street Boss) from 2021-24.<\/p>\n
Bookmakers responded by making Tempted a $3.50 favourite for the main event \u2013 the Golden Rose (Gr 1, 1400m) on September 27 \u2013 which hasn\u2019t been won by a filly since the outstanding Forensics (Flying Spur) in 2008 \u2013 the only filly to win it since 2001.<\/p>\n
Tempted was also shortened into $15 for The Everest (Gr 1, 1200m) on October 18. In a market dominated by $1.70 shot Ka Ying Rising (Shamexpress), Tempted is Godolphin\u2019s shortest-priced runner and could be set to fill their slot.<\/p>\n
Maher noted three-year-olds had a strong record in the $20 million weight-for-age sprint, with two winners in its eight runnings, and with his own colt Growing Empire (Zoustar) running third last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Should Tempted line up in the Randwick feature, she would aim to become the second female winner of the race, with Maher\u2019s former stable star Bella Nipotina having won the Group 1 last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And while conceding the two winners had been males in Yes Yes Yes (Rubick) and Giga Kick (Scissor Kick), Maher said Tempted had the quality to suggest she wouldn\u2019t be out of place in the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt probably wouldn\u2019t be beyond her,\u201d he told Sky Thoroughbred Central. \u201cThree-year-olds have a good [Everest] record. I know the fillies probably haven\u2019t done as well as the colts, but she might be one out of the box.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just great to be able to have those conversations. They [Godolphin] are a great team. I\u2019ve only been dealing with them a short time, but they\u2019ll make the right call.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the nearer term, a different chance at improving recent history seems likely to await with another crack at the three-year-old males in the Golden Rose, which \u2013 despite its reputation and importance as a stallion-maker \u2013 is still \u201conly\u201d worth $1 million in these times of dizzying NSW prize-money.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll have a chat to the team,\u201d Maher said. \u201cShe could go a number of different ways, but given how she put them away today, it\u2019d be very attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maher said he\u2019d been confident of Tempted\u2019s chances in the Run To The Rose as she set out to follow a two-year-old season of three wins \u2013 two at Group 2 level \u2013 from six starts, plus her superb Slipper third and an unlucky seventh in the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m).<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s ultimately just very impressive,\u201d Maher said of Tempted, who went into Saturday\u2019s race off only one barrier trial.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was obviously a crack two-year-old, and she developed the right way with the Godolphin team.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a very, very high class filly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see she doesn\u2019t carry a huge amount of weight. She couldn\u2019t have been more impressive in her trial on a track that was rain affected at Randwick.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see her coat\u2019s just coming on. She\u2019s a lovely filly and I\u2019m thrilled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said to Browny this morning when he was on the way to the races, \u2018You enjoy this one old son\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown was equally dazzled with how Tempted scorched past the leaders on a track that had favoured front-runner on the inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I looked up at the top of the straight, knowing how the track was playing, I thought she\u2019d have to be really good to pick these up \u2013 and she was.\u201d Brown said. \u201cShe really impressed me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe race set up well for us, but the track has been quite on-speed, so all credit to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown said Tempted had answered \u201cthe main question\u201d of whether she would measure up to her juvenile season.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at her last trial you were always confident she was going to,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s done it on raceday now, so onwards and upwards for her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tempted has enhanced a rich Godolphin\/Darley family. She\u2019s the fourth foal among five for Calliope (Exceed And Excel), who\u2019s also the dam of quadruple stakes winning sprinter Kallos (Medaglia D\u2019Oro).<\/p>\n
Calliope herself was a dual black-type winner in a career cut short to just four outings, taking the Gimcrack Stakes (Listed, 1000m) and the Magic Night Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) in 2015-16.<\/p>\n
Her latest foal, Zambales (Pinatubo) is a two-year-old in work with Anthony and Sam Freedman, while she was covered by Darley\u2019s Anamoe (Street Boss) last spring.<\/p>\n
Tempted became the second stakes winner of the new Australian season for Street Boss (Street Cry), and the 12th winner from 49 runners this term for the 22-year-old, who\u2019s standing at Darley\u2019s Northwood farm in Victoria this season for an unchanged $66,000 (inc GST).<\/p>\n
Beiwacht performed strongly at $7.50 in his second run for Waller, continuing on from a first-up third in the San Domenico Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m).<\/p>\n
Skyhook, at $5.50, finished well after being blocked for a run in the first half of the straight.<\/p>\n
Wootton Bassett\u2019s Group 1 placegetters Wodeton and State Visit made solid ground to run fourth and fifth, while Raging Force \u2013 chasing a fifth straight win after being a revelation of the winter \u2013 weakened into seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Trevor Marshallsea Listen Flying filly Tempted (Street Boss) showed her rare class with a dominant victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-136794","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\/136794","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=136794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}