A total of
1,461 two-year-olds (767 colts and geldings, and 694 fillies) have paid up first acceptances for the
$3.5 million 2016 Group 1 Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill the world’s richest juvenile race to be run on 19 March 2016.
According to the Australian Turf Club these figures are up 17 percent on last year.
Snitzel leads the way on the stallion rankings, represented by
83 entries, six more than champion sire
Fastnet Rock.
Of the first-season sires,
Smart Missile has 59 youngsters still in contention,
Foxwedge 49, Sepoy 42 and
Helmet 20.
John O’Shea’s mammoth
Godolphin team has 156 two-year-olds entered.
GAI WATERHOUSE
Six-time Golden Slipper-winning trainer Gai Waterhouse has 112 two-year-olds.
Peter Snowden have 76 two-year-olds paid up.
Chris Waller (72), Hawkes Racing (67), David Hayes (64) and Mick Price (50) have also accepted with their babies for the Golden Slipper.
The second round of acceptances will be declared on January 25 next year.
Dynamic Syndications boss Dean Watt syndicated the 2003 Golden Slipper winner POLAR SUCCESS and has also won the other major two-year-old races being the Blue Diamond (REWARD FOR EFFORT) and the Magic Millions (BRADBURY’S LUCK).
Golden Slipper Magic Millions
Blue Diamond
It’s always an exciting time of year as we watch the youngsters go through the process of living the dream for their owners.
Naturally it’s a difficult assignment with an average 16,000 yearlings are born each year and only one winner of the Golden Slipper.
However it’s been proven that anyone can win it – you don’t need to have an oil well in the backyard to compete on level terms, you just need a ticket in the equine lottery and a dream.
You do need quality bloodstock with a trainer brilliant at the craft of training two-year-olds.
It’s an art and much as an inexact science.
There are trainers who can and trainers who can’t because trainers are not all equal.
Some have a better skill set than others at training the babies to sparkle.
Dynamic Syndications have our Golden Slipper aspirants with Gai Waterhouse and Gerald Ryan.
That’s why we have the business philosophy “RACE THE BEST WITH THE BEST”.