Spring Champion Stakes

And we're talking about Proxena Day.

Wins the spring champion stakes, beats the Colts.

Five from five.

Impressive.

Yeah.

Oh, well.

She might be a spring champion stakes winner and an aches winner.

Pretty impressive.

So yeah, just incredible attention to detail, Mr. Peters, and that's really shone through in his results over, like I say, five decades.

Another group like Mr. Peters who have been heavily focused on the middle distance horses is Richard Kurland and his friends, Mr. Hugh Docherty, Andy Giles, that whole group and partners and wives, families all together and been very much sticking to their formula of trying to breed and purchase lovely middle distance horses for Mr. David Payne to train and boy have they been successful, not only the likes of Montefiglia but now Proxima Dia who of course won the group one spring champion stakes yesterday big prize money race 2,000 metres fully beating the Colts great effort she of course by Tarzino and a full sister to Gypsy Goddess who won the Queensland Oaks group one level so this filly She's been beautifully handled by David, been brought all the way through beautifully, and she now is a Group 1 winner.

But gee whiz, it seems like there's so much more ahead of her.

Of course, there's the likes of the Derby, the Oaks coming up this spring, and then you can imagine in the autumn, she's going to be some force again in these races, particularly at 2,000 metres and above.

And congratulations to all the group there.

Big win and a really exciting fleet for them.

course the Randwick card was headlined by the spring champion stakes but it was in fact a great race card overall lots of promising horses going around and also established ones too but a big day for B2B thoroughbreds we've talked about Ricky Serais, Ricky Serais Jr their family the Serais family having a great run of things in recent times and again another big big Saturday well planned well calculated and a couple of their nice fillies winning, of course.

Lazura winning the invitation.

We'll take a break.

We'll come back and have a look at the spring champion stakes there yesterday from Ramwick at Group 1 level, Proxima Dea, the filly beating the boys.

We've got plenty to get through before then.

And John Walter, of course, professional punter with RacingWatch.com.au, joins us on the line to talk about today's meeting at Flemington, but also at Randwick, where we've got the running of the Spring Champion Stakes at Group 1 level.

You go back to 2004, Savabill actually did the double, the Spring Champion and the Cox Plate.

Now they're run on the same day.

I think there is holes in this market in comparison.

It doesn't make sense to me that Tom Kitten's $3.50.

Race number seven is the Spring Champion Stakes.

Favourite is Global Golf, the filly up against the boys in the Spring Champion.

Even though I am tipping Kislyar, I think that Kings Valley is one that you can back at an each-way price as well.

The feature race in Sydney is the Moet and Chandon Spring Champion Stakes at Group 1 level.

She's short now, isn't she? Global Gold, 2.45 with Ladbrokes.

Proxima Deo is unbeaten.

And as you said, the forecast is certainly not definitive as to what's happening there at Flemington.

i get some confidence with liam saying he's sort of confident or miss um he'd know better than most so we'll see what happens there michael wood of course the track manager at ram week they've got group one racing there with the spring champion stakes mike good morning to you track played superb last week um how's it come up this week

look it's come up really well it's been a different week we were sort of Holding off on irrigating the track because we had a fair bit of rain forecast on Thursday, but we've ended up with just six mils for the week, but a good fall service to start.

Rail out six metres for today.

Got a bit of a nor'easterly wind blowing, sort of picking up throughout the afternoon, so that may have a little effect with looking to try and get some cover and then just peeling out.

It looks like we're set for another good day of racing there at Randwick today.

The Spring Champion stakes a real highlight today, Michael, over the 2,000 metres at Group 1 level for the three-year-olds.

You've got the invitation, so another quality day of racing? Yeah, it certainly