It was an thrilling end to the 144th version of the Group 1 $3 million Caulfield Guineas (1600m) in Melbourne on Saturday with coach Chris Waller accumulating his third success with an upset from Personal Life.
Personal Life profitable the 2024 Caulfield Guineas. Picture: Final Racing Images.
The well-bred Written Tycoon colt loved a shock front-running journey from Damian Lane who discovered his place within the lead the early phases and led from barrier to field within the stallion-making traditional.
“It’s clearly a race with nice status,” Lane advised Racing.com.
“I’ve been shut a couple of instances, so to win one is nice. And simply to repay a bit of religion in Chris Waller, Charlie Duckworth, and the possession group is a giant thrill.”
Personal Life, enhancing on his fourth the beginning prior within the Caulfield Guineas Prelude, was at $13 making him the longest priced Caulfield Guineas winner for Waller whose different champions – Press Assertion (2015) and The Autumn Solar (2018) – had been each quick favourites.
This yr’s winner jumped from barrier 5 and confirmed loads of grit holding off the courageous runner-up Feroce ($51) who went round at any outdated odds for Ballarat horseman Dominic Sutton.
Final begin Group 2 Stutt Stakes winner at The Valley, Evaporate ($17), was good once more for Ben, Will & JD Hayes operating third underneath a size overwhelmed to finish the trifecta.
One of many massive tales out of the Caulfield Guineas was the shock lack of the odds-on decide Broadsiding for Godolphin.
The James Cummings-trained Golden Rose champion first-up was after his fourth Group 1 success and third at a mile when heading right down to Melbourne.
He was properly again all through however made-up late floor with James McDonald aboard to run 1.25 lengths fourth.
2024 Caulfield Guineas Outcomes
| End | No. | Horse | Coach | Jockey | Margin | Bar. | Weight | Penalty | Beginning Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | PRIVATE LIFE | Chris Waller | Damian Lane | 5 | 57kg | $13 | |||
| 2 | 8 | FEROCE (NZ) | Dominic Sutton | Billy Egan | 0.15L | 2 | 57kg | $51 | ||
| 3 | 3 | EVAPORATE (NZ) | Ben, Will & JD Hayes | Michael Dee | 0.9L | 8 | 57kg | $17 | ||
| 4 | 1 | BROADSIDING | James Cummings | James McDonald | 1.25L | 9 | 57kg | $1.80F | ||
| 5 | 7 | PUBLIC ATTENTION (NZ) | Mick Value & Michael Kent (Jnr) | Ethan Brown | 2.75L | 4 | 57kg | $21 | ||
| 6 | 4 | ANGEL CAPITAL | Clinton McDonald | Ben Melham | 3.75L | 7 | 57kg | $7 | ||
| 7 | 10 | VIANARRA | Trent Busuttin & Natalie Younger | Jamie Mott | 4.21L | 11 | 57kg | $201 | ||
| 8 | 9 | TROPICUS | Anthony & Sam Freedman | Mark Zahra | 4.31L | 1 | 57kg | $18 | ||
| 9 | 2 | RUE DE ROYALE (NZ) | Tony & Calvin McEvoy | John Allen | 5.81L | 6 | 57kg | $101 | ||
| 10 | 6 | WANARUAH | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Jye McNeil | 7.06L | 3 | 57kg | $21 | ||
| 11 | 5 | MAYFAIR | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Blake Shinn | 27.06L | 10 | 57kg | $8 |
Desk Credit score: Racing Australia.
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