Search

Justify colt ready to Party in Dulcify

Just Party will take some strong formlines into the Dulcify Stakes.

Trainers : Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou.
Trainers : Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou. Picture: Martin King / Sportpix

Form references around two of the first three horses across the line in the Golden Rose have given connections of Just Party the confidence to bypass a midweek assignment in favour of a black-type mission at Randwick.

The three-year-old was scratched from a benchmark race against older horses at Rosehill on Wednesday to be saved for Saturday's Listed Dulcify Stakes (1600m) and is among the leading fancies at $4.60 following a last-start fourth to Lady Shenandoah in the Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m).

Just Party was held up for a run until the 300m in that race and was beaten three-quarters of a length, Mayfair finishing second before going on to place behind Broadsiding in last weekend's Group 1 Golden Rose (1400m).

"Last start, if he'd have got clear running in the straight who knows? He may have even won the race," co-trainer Gerald Ryan said of Just Party.

"The form out of the race has been good. The horse who ran second came out and ran third in the Golden Rose.

"He has beaten the winner of the Golden Rose at Newcastle on debut. We ran second and Broadsiding ran third, then we ran third in the Fernhill to him.

"Josh (Parr) came out and rode him in a gallop Wednesday morning and he worked very well. I'm happy to be going there."

Just Party's Ming Dynasty effort followed a forgivable first-up run when he failed to beat a rival home but subsequently pulled up with cardia arrhythmia.

Ryan and training partner Sterling Alexiou gave him almost a month to recover with a barrier trial in between and he proved he was back on track with his last start effort.

Just Party will be among three stakes runners for the duo at Randwick along with Arctic Glamour, who spearheads their team in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m), and Perle De Chocolat in the Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes (1000m).

A daughter of Astern, Perle De Chocolat finished runner-up to Saturday's rival Strada Varenna at the official two-year-old trials and Ryan said she had taken enormous benefit from the experience.

"She trialled well and she has improved heaps off it," he said.

"She is a tough little thing. If you'd said to me three months ago she would be your first two-year-old runner, I would have laughed at you.

"But she has kept coping, she's strong, she is eating her feed.

"Her biggest assets are her strength and her attitude. I think she will go there and run very well."


Racing and Sports



Randwick Saturday, 05th October 2024

7f210y TURF GOOD
AUD $250,000

DRINKWISE DULCIFY STAKES (LR)

AUD $250,000
Age: 3yo Type: OPEN
7f210y TURF GOOD
FP Silk Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 3. SWIFTFALCON (AUS) 3yo G
EXCEEDANCE (AUS) - TEMPTING DELIGHT (AUS)
JAY FORD
M, W & J HAWKES
$4
56.5kg
R & C Legh Racing Pty Ltd (Mgr: R P Legh), B & C Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd (Mgr: B A Dorman) & Pulitano Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd (Mgr: G Pulitan)

Sales Information

2nd 10. PLEASURE ARTIST (AUS) 3yo F
TRAPEZE ARTIST (AUS) - PERFECT PLEASURE (AUS)
CRAIG WILLIAMS
R & W FREEDMAN
$26
54.5kg
Vantage Thoroughbreds (Mgr: J M Tinning), J M Tinning, Ms R Hunt, L Myers, A S Macintosh, A J Dingle, A Ettridge, A Lam, A M Doyle, K Chehab, Millar Racing & Breeding (Mgr: S B Millar), M Brandon & S Chehab

Sales Information

3rd 4. MEDIA WORLD (AUS) 3yo C
WRITTEN TYCOON (AUS) - MERYL (AUS)
ZAC LLOYD
PETER SNOWDEN
$6
56.5kg
Yu Long Investments, Mystery Downs & Mrs C M Cook

Sales Information

4th 2. JUST PARTY (AUS) 3yo C
JUSTIFY (USA) - THE PARTY STAND (NZ)
JOSH PARR
G RYAN & S ALEXIOU
$3.8
56.5kg

Sales Information

5th 6. INTERJECTION (AUS) 3yo G
TOO DARN HOT (GB) - FRANKLY SO (IRE)
JASON COLLETT
JOHN O'SHEA & TOM CHARLTON
$18
56.5kg

Sales Information

6th 8. CHINA SEA (AUS) 3yo G
FASTNET ROCK (AUS) - RIPPLED (GB)
RORY HUTCHINGS
J G SARGENT
$9
56.5kg

Sales Information

7th 5. LAST COMMAND (AUS) 3yo G
TASSORT (AUS) - OLYMPIC DREAM (AUS)
REGAN BAYLISS
MICHAEL FREEDMAN
$16
56.5kg

Sales Information

8th 7. JOHNNY THE KID (AUS) 3yo C
TRAPEZE ARTIST (AUS) - I GOT CHILLS (AUS)
NASH RAWILLER
G WATERHOUSE & A BOTT
$7.5
56.5kg

Sales Information

9th 1. DEPTH OF CHARACTER (AUS) 3yo C
DEEP FIELD (AUS) - CARICATURE (NZ)
TOM SHERRY
ANNABEL NEASHAM & ROB ARCHIBALD
$9
56.5kg

Sales Information

today's racing

Error occured
{{disciplineGroup.DisciplineFullText}}
{{course.CountryName || course.Country}}