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 gathering his third success with an upset from Personal Life.
Personal Life profitable the 2024 Caulfield Guineas. Picture: Final Racing Photographs.
The well-bred Written Tycoon colt loved a shock front-running journey from Damian Lane who discovered his place within the lead the early levels and led from barrier to field within the stallion-making traditional.
“It’s clearly a race with nice status,” Lane informed Racing.com.
“I’ve been shut just a few occasions, so to win one is nice. And simply to repay a bit of religion in Chris Waller, Charlie Duckworth, and the possession group is an enormous thrill.”
Personal Life, bettering 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from barrier 5 and confirmed loads of grit holding off the courageous runner-up Feroce ($51) who went round at any outdated odds for Ballarat horseman Dominic Sutton.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 working third beneath a size overwhelmed to finish the trifecta.
One of many large 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 all the way down to Melbourne.
He was effectively 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 Worth
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 Worth & 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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