Field, Barriers and Pedigree Pointers for G1 Thousand Guineas

Tara Madgwick - Monday October 10

The strength of the Sydney fillies form will be tested at Caulfield on Wednesday with Flight Stakes runners North Star Lass and Madame Pommery accepting for the $1million Group I MRC Thousand Guineas (1600m), while a trio of blue-blood fillies will be searching for their first G1.

The only Group I winner in the field is the Kiwi She’s Licketysplit, who has done nothing wrong in two Australian runs and is the testing material as the only runner to have won at 1600m.

If pedigrees won races the following three fillies would be filling the trifecta.

I Am Invincible filly Waltz on By will have sentimental support given her mother Stay With Me won this race in 2015 as did her grand-dam Miss Finland in 2006, while the other runner for I Am Invincible, Tajneed, has a bit of the ex-factor about her.

Peter and Paul Snowden are not given to throwing horses into the deep end, but Tajneed comes into this at just her third race start following a maiden debut win at Sandown followed by a close and unlucky third in the Group II VRC Edward Manifold Stakes behind She’s Licketysplit.

She gets stamina from her dam sire Galileo, while her grand-dam Melito was an outstanding Redoute’s Choice filly that won a couple of Group I sprints and was also second in the 2009 Group I MRC Thousand Guineas behind Irish Lights.

Jenny Jerome is the other filly that jumps out on pedigree being a half-sister to Group II winner Cherry Tortoni by Galileo’s champion son Churchill (IRE), who has already sired two Group I winners in the Northern Hemisphere. Her dam Tortoni is a half-sister to champion stayer Tie the Knot from classy filly Whisked, who won the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas in 1990….. yes that is a long time ago… Tortoni was the last foal from Whisked and was born when she was 22!

2022 G1 Thousand Guineas Field

 

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Runner

Sire

Barrier

Trainer

1/ Russian Conquest

Russian Revolution

1

P & P Snowden

2/ Revolutionary Miss

Russian Revolution

10

P & P Snowden

3/ She’s Licketysplit (NZ)

Turn Me Loose

5

A Forsman

4/ Boogie Dancer

Sooboog

6

P Moody

5/ North Star Lass

Zoustar

2

G Waterhouse and A Bott

6/ Waltz on By

I Am Invincible

3

P Moody

7/ Madame Pommery

No Nay Never (USA)

4

C Waller

8/ Moko

Impending

11

A & S Freedman

9/ Jenny Jerome

Churchill (IRE)

9

P Payne

10/ Tajneed

I Am Invincible

8

P & P Snowden

11// She’s Pretty Rich

Written Tycoon

7

M Brown

 

 

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