Victory in this Saturday’s Tattersall’s Tiara will elevate the profile of any runner, but none may benefit as greatly as Floozie, one of the race’s leading chances.
The final Group 1 of the Australian season is exclusive to fillies and mares, and among the field, few possess the elite pedigree of Tony Gollan’s four-year-old mare.
Floozie is by champion sire contender Zoustar and out of Catchy, the Fastnet Rock mare who won the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes as a juvenile and placed in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas against the boys.
Bred by Robert Crabtree, who also raced Catchy, Floozie has already significantly raised her value and could become one of Australia’s most coveted broodmare prospects with a Group 1 win.
Initially trained by Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr in Victoria, Floozie has flourished since relocating to Queensland. She kicked off her campaign with an emphatic two-length win at Eagle Farm on April 19 and backed it up with another dominant win over the same course and distance on May 3.
She then captured her first stakes win in the Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast, before claiming the Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes (1400m) on June 14, securing her place as one of the top Tattersall’s Tiara contenders.
“She’s got a lovely racing style. She’s a beautiful mare,” said Gollan.
“Mares in form, they tend to hold that form and I doubt there’s a mare in any better form than her going into this race on the weekend and we know she’s proven at the distance.
“When James Mitchell rang me about training her, I said that would be great. He said he wanted to try something during the Carnival to try and get some Black Type as her pedigree is so good.
“When I looked at her rating, I thought I’d have to devise something of a plan to get her into a Stakes race, so we ran her in some of those lesser grade races first.
“She had to hit the target pretty much straight away just to get her rating high enough to get her into the Silk Stocking, which was my plan all away and from there I picked my mark quite well in the Group 2.
“I think there’s improvement off her last run, which was five weeks, with no trial, so she’ll be better than she was a fortnight ago on Saturday.”
Catchy’s other progeny include Dakota Vroom, a $1.2 million yearling by I Am Invincible who won three midweek races, and Catonahotinroof, a daughter of Too Darn Hot who has recently transferred to the Grahame Begg stable after placing twice from six starts.
Crabtree has also retained a promising filly by Pinatubo named Turbocat, while Catchy’s most recent foal is a rising yearling by Blue Point.
Catchy herself was sold in-foal to Capitalist at the 2024 Inglis Chairman’s Sale for $800,000 to Glenvale Stud.
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