King Charles III Stakes

I think...

Well, how long till the King Charles?

Oh.

Oh, sorry.

Yeah, King Charles.

Of course.

She'll go to the King Charles and then maybe come to Melbourne for Champions Day.

Yep.

This is going to be the year where RV and the Moonee Valley Racing Club, if they don't get her, which the likelihood is they're not going to, they're not going to get Autumn Glow.

If they face off in the King Charles the week before, that's going to be the wait for age race of the spring.

There's no doubt about that.

So if the Cox Plate is with Sir Dilius and the majority of the other horses who are behind Shiza Alibi here and the horses out of the Underwood next week, we've got no internationals coming for the Cox Plate.

But the Cox Plate, if you want it to be the number one wait-for-rage race in the spring at 1,600 metres plus, at that 2,000-metre range, you need to make it that.

You need to go and put the money... that makes these horses and, well, really connections, aspire to go to the race first.

Instead of running in a Golden Eagle, instead of running in a King Charles, that's got to be the number one priority, I think, for RV and the Moonee Valley Racing Club.

I know this is away from the Maccabi Diva chat in a way, But this is the first year, realistically, where we've had horses sort of divert from the Cox Plate in previous years.

I'm not sure whether it's been ever done.

And then you've got the, the King Charles, um, Autumn Glow, and the likes of Chow Wolf.

I think Chow Wolf goes to a, a King Charles and not a Cox Plate.

Autumn Glow, you won't see her there this year, even though I think that she will run 2,000 meters in time, and I'd love to see her in a Cox Plate in the future.

But I think that he'll start shorter than, than $3.10 on Cox Plate day, e- especially if he comes out and wins that Turnbull Stakes.

I spoke to Chris Waller about Autumn Glow.

She's in great health following her brilliant win the other day, seven stakes for her, King Charles, and then hopefully a champion's mile.

So we spoke about that.

Chris would love to see her, like John Massara has mentioned with you, Michael, that he'd love to see her here at Flemington in a champion's mile.

I don't think so.

I think they go still to the King Charles.

They've got to run into those two very good mares there.

But, you know, when the pace is right on, this horse can run time and they might as well run in it.

Give me two that are kind of my bankers for that multi that we've either spoken about today or in another race or just two that we want to kind of start building a futures multi off.

Yeah, so the two bankers, one of them would be Autumn Glow in the King Charles.

So both on the same day.

So she was outstanding first up, and this is grand final day.

what else? You've got your

Caulfield Cup that day.

You've got King Charles.

We'll be on St. George.

Yep.

Number two is the King Charles III stakes.

This is where we get to see Autumn Glow and She's an Alibi Mark II, both with fitness under the belt at 1,600 metres.

This is going to be a clash of the titans.

Like she's won at Group 1 level winning a 1400 metre wink stakes.

She's won at Group 1 level winning a King Charles.

She's, yeah, you know, she's won...

You name it, all of those big races, she's been around them for a long period of time.

But you can just see going from 400m to a mile, this gap is going to close even further and we're going to have a just brilliant duel between these two mares right through this season, hopefully a couple of more occasions.

Noting that Autumn Glow now goes to the King Charles opposed to the Everest, so she'll get towards the mile.

And of course, you're looking at, she's an alibi.

She's got that 1500 metre, $10 million golden eagle to run for as a four-year-old being the year younger.