Winter Garden Stakes nominations – 2016

View the nominations for the 2016 Winter Garden Stakes. The Winter Garden Stakes will be run on Saturday 25th June at Eagle Farm racecourse.

Horse Sex Age Trainer
1 AQUAJEWEL F 2 Alan L Jones
2 BALABINA F 2 Liam Birchley
3 BOLD HEART G 2 Stuart Kendrick
4 BRULEE F 2 Peter Robl
5 CELLARMAN C 2 Chris Waller
6 CHARNLEY RIVER C 2 Stuart Kendrick
7 EMPHATICALLY F 2 Ciaron Maher
8 ENDLESS DAYS G 2 Peter & William Hulbert
9 IRISH SEA F 2 Gai Waterhouse
10 LOVE BATTLES F 2 Sonya Wheelahan
11 NUNCIUS G 2 Chris Munce
12 PEGAPUS F 2 Scott Morrisey
13 ROYAL ATOM G 2 Darryl Hansen
14 ROYAL TITHE F 2 John Zielke
15 SUGARPARMA F 2 Peter Robl
16 WAKE UP VICTA C 2 Lindsay Gough
17 YEEZY C 2 Ben Currie
18 ZENDAYE C 2 Desleigh Forster

News:

Trainer Stephen Brown is looking forward to recent addition Lord Von Costa making his debut for his stable at Flemington.

Lord Von Costa finished a close second at Flemington last Saturday week at his seventh career start and has since been transferred from Albury trainer and part-owner Graham Hulm to Flemington-based Brown.

The three-year-old has one win and six placings to his credit and Brown is excited to have him as part of his team heading to Saturday’s meeting.

Brown said Lord Von Costa would run second-up against his own age in Saturday’s 1100m race which is a heat of the A R Creswick Series.

“Part-owner Donna Scott and her father Graham Hulm, who trained him, we’re pretty good friends,” Brown said.

“And Ash Beer, who rides trackwork for me, is good friends with Donna. They sent him down and ran him at Flemington.

“Because it’s been so wet in Albury and they think he does go all right, she wants him to have every chance so she’s entrusted him to us.”

Brown thinks Lord Von Costa has a Listed or Group race win in him and was impressed when he rode him work on Saturday morning.

“I think he’s a good horse,” Brown said.

“I rode him in a gallop and he felt enormous. I can’t fault him.

“He’s a lovely big horse. We’re going to have a lot of fun with him.”

Brown said Lord Von Costa could head to the final of the Creswick Series, a Listed 1200m race at Flemington on July 9, if things go to plan on Saturday.

Stephen Baster, who rode the gelding first-up, will retain the ride on Saturday.

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