In 2019 the Golden Slipper Carnival should have been renamed the
“Chris Waller and James Cummings Benefit” as that duo dominated the carnival winning all but one of the eight (8) Group 1 race between them,
but in 2020 the wheel turned significantly and it was all about Gai and Adrian.
Adrian Bott & Hugh Bowman hold the 2020 Golden Slipper won by FARNAM
With the dominance of Chris Waller and James Cummings in Sydney over the past few years, Gai Waterhouse and her training partner Adrian Bott as the third leg of the training trinity had been forced to take a back seat while the big races have been run, but that certainly hasn’t been the case in recent weeks.
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GAI WATERHOUSE, DEAN & FIONA WATT, ADRIAN BOTT in the Winner's Room
The win of Shout The Bar in Saturday’s Vinery Stud Stakes was the third successive Saturday the Waterhouse-Bott yard had recorded Group 1 success following on from Con De Partiro in the Coolmore Classic and Farnan in the Golden Slipper.
Of the eight Group 1 races run over the three weeks of the Golden Slipper carnival at Rosehill
Waterhouse and Bott were dominant with their three wins while
John Thompson won the George Ryder (Dreamforce),
David Pfieffer won The Galaxy (I Am Excited),
William Haggas won the Ranvet (Addeybb),
Richard Litt won the Rosehill Guineas (Castelvecchio) and
Chris Waller won just the one Group 1 being the Tancred (Verry Ellegant).
The best
James Cummings could do was a third with Avilius in the Tancred Stakes and a fourth in The Galaxy with Deprive.
It was in stark contrast to last year when James Cummings and Chris Waller won seven of the eight Group 1 races over the 2019 Golden Slipper carnival between them.
Cummings won 3, the Slipper (Kiamichi) along with the Ranvet and Tancred with Avilus while
Waller won 4, the George Ryder with Winx, The Galaxy with Nature Strip, the Rosehill Guineas with The Autumn Sun and the Vinery with Verry Elleegant.
The only other Group 1 went to
Ron Quinton who won the Coolmore Classic with Dixie Blossoms.
Now the focus turns to Randwick with the two days of The Championships upon us.