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Wagga Riverside preview: Carroll's gelding can Salute Again on Monday
TRAINER Wayne Carroll will either be off to the bank with his cut of $13,950 or undertake his tenth trip to Sydney later this month with Salute Again depending on the outcome of Monday's Jockeys Celebration Day Handicap at Wagga. Carroll's chestnut is on three career wins heading into today's Riverside meeting, one more would rule him ineligible for any future TAB Highways. Salute Again is no stranger to the country-only weekend features having contested nine of them spanning June 24, 2023 to June 26 in 2025. It started so well for the Riverina housed gelding, champion jockey (now Wagga trainer) Danny Beasley steering the then $26 pop to an emphatic win at his very first Highway mission at Royal Randwick. But in his eight Highways since, the only constant has been luck, or lack thereof. 'I don't know how many times the jockeys that rode him in a Highway have come back and apologised,'' Carroll said. 'I know we all hear the same story so many thousands of times but when you go to Sydney and you're unlucky, it is a harder pill to swallow just because there is so much time involved in getting them ready and getting up there and getting them to the race. 'He's been one of those horses that either drew badly and has been caught very wide and in the races where he drew well he's just been locked-up behind and can't get out. 'He will love the 1200m on Monday and with my apprentice Ella McGuirk on board, claiming three (kilos), from a nice draw, he will run a really good race.' Carroll will have a second Starspangledbanner foal to fly up the flag on Monday namely Witch Of November who contests the NSW Jockeys Association Country Boosted Class 1 Handicap over 1065m. The four-year-old is building a tidy resume boasting a win, two seconds and a third from her seven outings. 'I purchased her online years ago as a yearling and didn't sort of have, how do I say it, great expectations for her but as she has raced, she has just become so courageous, tough, whatever you want to call it,'' says Carroll. 'She is just a real trier. 'I would think that from the nice gate on Monday that she is going to be a really nice chance. 'She has been up for a while so she will go for a break after this run no matter what happens and she'll be a nice country horse going forward.' Carroll's first runner in the 2025/26 season is Riverbend Star which can lay claim to being a member of one of the true foundation families in the Australian Stud Book. 'He just needs experience, he is a very immature young horse,'' Carroll said. 'He drew a really bad gate but that won't be a worry because he is a bit crowd-shy. 'He is out of a nice family-line and he'll be a lot better horse next time in.' Riverbend Gold's broodmare sires start with Filante, Sovereign Red and Bletchingly and trace back to the legendary, Ajax. Ajax's presence in most post-war pedigrees in Australia is via his daughter, the celebrated broodmare gem - Civic Pride (Riverbend Gold's seventh dam). Civic Pride won the 1944 Gimcrack Stakes and went on to throw two giants of 1950s racing namely the Victoria Derby, Rosehill and Canterbury Guineas, Champion Stakes, Hobartville Stakes as well as VRC and St Leger Stakes winner Pride Of Egypt and Flight Stakes winner Amneris.
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Wagga Riverside, Taree best bets, inside mail for Monday August 4
The Daily Telegraph's Shayne O'Cass runs his eye over racing at Wagga Riverside and Taree on Monday. WAGGA RIVERSIDE BEST BET Race 1 No. 2: Pride Of Jezza Swamped his rivals when ploughing through the Heavy to win easily last time. NEXT BEST Race 6 No. 2: Salute Again Highway winner, placed in a couple of others as well. Won on Heavy. VALUE Race 5 No. 8: Witch of November Reliable little mare who has an excellent record on Heavy tracks. QUADDIE Race 4: 1,2,3 Race 5: 2,4,8 Race 6: 2,3,5 Race 7: 4,8,10,11 JOCKEY TO FOLLOW Pierre Boudvillain will be popular with TAB Jockeys Challenge players. â– â– â– â– â– TAREE BEST BET Race 7 No. 3: Supreme Command Local who has won on heavy and ran fourth to Bodhi Boy last start. NEXT BEST Race 1 No. 3: Diva Rouge Lightly-raced up and comer from an astute yard. LAY Taree Race 3 No. 7 Khant Fail â– â– â– â– â– INSIDE MAIL - WAGGA RIVERSIDE RACE 1 Pride Of Jezza was a $40,000 Gary Colvin purchase at the 2023 Magic millions Yearling Sale. The son of Pride Of Dubai took his earnings to $38,755 courtesy of a huge win at Wagga on July 7. Drew 12 of 12, was 9th at the turn, yet wins by two and a bit lengths on the Heavy 10. Extra trip is perfect now. Flutterby is a most consistent and reliable mare, evidenced by her record of one win, four seconds and two thirds from nine starts. Runner-up on run on the Heavy. Dantains Prize is fit for her first run beyond 1400m. Bet: Pride Of Jezza to win (best bet) RACE 2 Belnera is an exceedingly well-bred mare by So You Think from the same family as former crack WA filly Covertly. Belnera was fifth in the Listed Dequetteville in Adelaide as a 2YO on debut and went on to place at MV and Caulfield. Runner-up at her first go for Peter Morgan on a Heavy 10 at Wagga and to a handy horse. Impending Imprint sent out some encouraging signs in her July 18 trial at Albury. Donna Scott/Blaike McDougall combo is a winning one! McPhillamy was a bit of a dark horse out of that same trial. Bet: Belnera to win, box trifecta 5,6,8,12 RACE 3 Party Boss is trained at Wagga by Gary Colvin who is known to have a good opinion of this daughter of Farnan out of a US stakes-winning mare by Kentucky Derby winner - Big Brown. So much so that Colvin ran her in the Black Opal and the Preview at the end of the first preparation. Performing Diva was spelled after a creditable second in a reasonably strong Country Maiden at home at Goulburn on Feb 28. Scratched from Forbes on Sunday but is drawn betterat Moruya on Tuesday. Vinari and Rita Red have claims. Bet: Party Boss to win RACE 4 Magic Leprechaun is a very interesting horse in pedigree terms. For one, he is bred on a similar cross, albeit reversed, as Everest favourite, Ka Ying Rising. Both horses were bred in NZ, Magic Leprechaun was born at Ardsley Stud who stood this gelding's maternal grandsire Lord Ballina all his life. As for form, Magic Leprechaun is a last start Heavy 8 winner. The wet won't be any concern for Antisocial who has two wins from three starts on Heavy. Corumbene Stud bred gelding Getty has finished on the podium at exactly half of his 26 starts. Bet: Magic Leprechaun to win, quinella 1,3 RACE 5 Witch Of November has raced seven times for a rather impressive win at Tumut together with two seconds and a third. We should also point out that the Wayne Carroll trained daughter of Starspangledbanner has two seconds and a third from her only three starts on Heavy tracks. Go well. Gulgong gelding Hard To Impress has done more good than bad in his 11 starts, mostly in and around the Central West. He boasts very good form on Heavy tracks too. Stablemate Proofreader was $16 into $14 on debut but won like a $2 fav. Generates interest and respect. Bet: Witch Of November each-way, Daily Double 1st Leg 8, 2nd Leg 11 RACE 6 Salute Again will be out of contention for any more trips to Sydney for a Highway if successful given his tally will rise to four. For the record, Salute Again has contested no less than nine TAB Highways, winning at his first one and placing in two others (often without a lot of luck either). Deepwater Artist was $5 all the way out to $10 on debut at Albury on July 18 but you wouldn't see many more impressive wins than his on the day. Scratched from Forbes on Sunday to contest this. So too was Happy Clapper's close relation, Thoughtful. Bet: Salute Again to win RACE 7 Crazy Atom is a Joe Cleary trained mare closely related to the much loved late 1980s galloper, Groucho. This particular mare has three wins and eight placings from her 26 starts, five of the minors were in fact seconds and one of them was at this same track over the same distance. Getting closer than ever to another win. Bellman has never won in 27 starts on Good tracks and while he is one for one on Firm, it is patently clear that he handles, if not even perhaps prefers Soft and Heavy. Form is good too. Brie Brie and Tropicana's Cube are well in contention.
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Seagulls Eleven to target the $10 million Golden Eagle with English Premier League stars in the ownership
A horse owned by English Premier League football royalty will have the ultimate goal of winning Sydney's Golden Eagle (1500m) at Rosehill Gardens this year as one of several potential international raiders for the $10m showpiece. Seagulls Eleven could be set to follow in the footsteps of 2024 Golden Eagle winner Lake Forest and head 'down under' in pursuit of the world's richest race for four-year-olds. The horse's name is a nod to Brighton Hove Albion, which are nicknamed The Seagulls and finished eighth in last year's Premier League. A host of Brighton players both past and present are involved in the horse, including English internationals James Milner, Danny Welbeck and Adam Lallana. Former Liverpool and England striker Michael Owen is also involved and is no stranger to bringing horses to Australia as an owner of ex-Melbourne Cup contender Brown Panther, which finished eighth in the famous two-mile race in 2013. Seagulls Eleven, wearing the blue and white colours of Brighton, is trained by English-based horseman Hugo Palmer and put a trip to Australia on the agenda with victory in the Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes (1609m) at the Glorious Goodwood carnival on Friday. A win for the seagulls! 🰽 Seagulls Eleven, owned by some @OfficialBHAFC players, wins a messy edition of the Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes for team @hpalmerracing and @themichaelowen. 🟦⬜ï¸� — Racing TV (@RacingTV) August 1, 2025 'He's taken us all around the world and I don't think we're done yet,' Palmer told the Racing Post. 'The Golden Eagle in Sydney has already been mentioned and why not? It's a $10 million race. Where can you say that in England?' Seagulls Eleven could have one more start in England in the City Of York Stakes before he would need to enter quarantine to head to Australia for the Golden Eagle on November 1 at Rosehill Gardens. Australian Turf Club Head of Racing and Wagering Nevesh Ramdhani was in the UK for the Glorious Goodwood and spoke to multiple stables about the prospect of heading to Sydney for the spring carnival. 'There has certainly been a lot of interest in Australian racing with horses from multiple yards interested in coming down,' Ramdhani said. 'Seagulls Eleven is one, Charlie Fellowes has a horse called Luther that ran at Saratoga on Friday and he's interested and of course William Haggas has a few potential horses.' Ramdhani will also spend time talking to stables in Japan on his way back to Australia. TAB have installed Seagulls Eleven as a $26 elect for the Golden Eagle with Chris Waller's star mares Autumn Glow ($3.50) and Lady Shenandoah ($4.50) heading betting for Sydney's second richest race. Haggas also has his sights set on the $500,000 Group 3 St Leger (2600m) on The Everest Day for staying talent Sam Hawkens.
