Giga Gigg performed admirably by conquering Mount Everest

Photo: Racing and Sport Australia

The Everest, the world’s highest doping sprint race over 1200 meters on grass with a prize money of more than €9.7 million, was held for the sixth time last Saturday at the Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney. Australia has been known for years for breeding and breeding the world’s best sprinters. In 2017, “Everest” was organized to honor these runners. The race was sponsored by Tab (the aggregator of authorized betting shops in Australia) with a large prize pool. It doesn’t qualify as a Group I race (yet), but a horse that wins this race is followed with passion worldwide.

With 12 sprinters to start, jockey and hurdler Clayton Douglas, 27, had a winning day for his three-year-old gelding Giga Kick (Scissors Kick x Rekindled Applause). Tower favorite Nature Strip was defeated in this race last year. Giga Kick won for Private Eye and Masu and Nature Strip finished fourth.

Douglas “Giga Kick has won all five of his starts to date so he could be a real star and the next Nature Strip” jockey Craig Williams has won the Melbourne Cup Grand Slam along with Everest, Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Golden Slipper. And his Giga Kick win makes Australia the first Grand Slam-winning jockey to win Australia’s richest race.

Durston won the $5 million Carlton Draft Caulfield Cup

The first meeting of the Melbourne Spring Carnival took place last Saturday at Caulfield Racecourse (Melbourne). The major race, the Caufield Cup, had a prize pool of $5 million. This Group I race over 2400m consisted of 20 starters and Durston was the first stop on the reserve list in case a horse dropped out. After Maximal was withdrawn by his trainer, Durston was added to the field.

In the end, 19 horses were started, just before Run Macrame was withdrawn. Durstan (See The Moon x Caribana), a six-year-old gelding from Highclair Thoroughbred Australia Ltd, a syndicate that sells multiple shares of each horse and each horse has multiple owners, won the Gold Trip and Knight’s Order races and earned an automatic ticket. to the Melbourne Cup on 1st November next. Due to winning the Coffield Cup, Durston was given an extra 2kg by the handicapper to carry into the Melbourne Cup, but trainer Chris Waller didn’t really mind.

Waller said: “Durston is in really good shape and we will be confident going into the Melbourne Cup. Jockey Michael Dee drove it brilliantly and saved every extra meter, meaning you could win or lose the race.”

Very elegant

Durston’s victory was Waller’s second Caulfield Cup victory in the past three years. Very Elegant won this run for Waller in 2020. The seven-year-old top mare, who was traded by her owners from the Wallers stable to Crawford in Europe last year and was ready for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, was very disappointed in the race in France. The mare, who has won 11 Group I wins and more than $14.8 million in prize money in Australia, including last year’s Melbourne Cup, has decided this week to go to breeding England and the owners.

Source: Press release / Horses.nl

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