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Albeit the powers of Redcraze were beginning to wane, but Tulloch took the outside running, carried more weight and still tossed the old champion by three lengths. The colt’s every movement became the subject of considerable media focus and attention; even the great Lester Piggott, over from England on a working holiday, made a pilgrimage to Randwick to take the champion’s measure. Posted February 14, 2012 by belesprit09 in Uncategorized. As if Tulloch’s string of victories hadn’t been reward enough for Evelyn Haley: his other horse, Top Ruler, completed a memorable year by winning the rich Villiers Stakes at the Randwick Summer Meeting. Even through the dense clouds of hyperbole, cigar smoke, and obligatory tribute that hung over the dining tables that evening, it was clear that Smith’s life as a trainer extraordinaire was only just beginning.
Racing Victoria Todman had resumed from his summer spell to beat older horses in an open (6f) Welter, and in Tulloch’s absence at Rosehill, started at long odds on to win the Slipper effortlessly by eight lengths. In December the A.J.C. After winning his Australia Day debut at Randwick by almost three lengths, he easily accounted for the field in the MRC Blue Diamond Prelude G3. Whether it was the rigours of hard racing or the hot, dry summer that provided little in the way of decent pasture, Tulloch didn’t come to himself as quickly as Smith would have liked.
Posted By: Steve Moran. The presence of the Queen Mother herself enhanced the prestige and pageantry of the occasion. The 13-furlong journey in front of the Queen Mother had come about one week too soon in Tulloch’s campaign, a fact that Smith himself acknowledged just seven days later after Tulloch had scattered his only two rivals in the V.R.C. Moody has said he would appeal to the Supreme Court for an injunction if stood down and ruled out of the spring carnival. (WINNER), LATE QUADDIE (R6-9) RACE 4 No: 5 UNIVERSAL LAW – Couldn’t catch up after spotting a start in a slowly-run race last time out. To be TRAINED by the HALL OF FAMER – GAI WATERHOUSE who has very GOOD SUCCESS with the SNIPPETSON STOCK including FAST CLIP – NOBBY SNIP. 1915 – Ernie Green, Albert Wood and Cetigne! Your email address will not be published. Twelve months later in the same venue, T. J. Smith collected both bets and a few others besides when he won the first of his Sydney trainers’ premierships in that 1952-53 racing season with fifty-four wins, seventeen more than Maurice McCarten, who had been the leading trainer in the previous four years. Evidence of this newfound temper came in an exhibition gallop at Randwick in January when he savaged his strapper Neville Johnson, who had to be taken to St Vincent’s Hospital for precautionary X-rays.
In his absence, Tulloch coasted home by twelve lengths. Few in numbers it was a quality field nonetheless, and in the fullness of time, only one of the starters would fail to win a principal race on the Australasian Turf. “I’ll bet you £500 to £400 too!” said Joe to Tom and the bet was accepted by this brash young parvenu.
The highlight of that year’s autumn racing was the rich Queen Elizabeth Stakes (w-f-a; 13f) run at Flemington a fortnight later. His record at the end of his 2yo season stood at 13:7-6-0. The VRC St Leger (now only a listed race) and AJC St Leger were principal (stakes) races in Tulloch's era, which indicates how impressive his record was then.[11]. We train her full sister Terminology who is a stakes performer and winner on Magic Millions race day. These are good horses she’s toying with.’. $775,000 Inglis yearling. An ambitious autumn campaign was then planned that involved an unprecedented assault on the Sires’ Produce Stakes in three States – Victoria, N.S.W.
Pierro left Tulloch Lodge for a career in the breeding barn many moons ago. Smith’s tally of wins and his margin of victory were the greatest since Sydney training records began. Neville Sellwood on Ranchipur started to ride his mount before the field had gone half a furlong.
The first stallion to stand there had been the St Denis horse, Redfern.