Fat chance is fine by Gai
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse is confident Fat Al can justify his trip west and deliver her a maiden Group 1 victory in WA with success in today’s $1 million Carlton Draught Railway Stakes (1600m).
Should Fat Al fail to deliver, Waterhouse has a more than handy back up in Hallowell Belle, who takes on local stars Barakey and Travinator in the Crown Perth Winterbottom Stakes (1200m).
Waterhouse’s father, the late Tommy Smith, was a regular visitor to the Ascot summer carnival, where he often locked horns in the 1970s and 80s with Bart Cummings and the late Colin Hayes. He took much of WA’s best silverware home to Tulloch Lodge, amassing 10 wins at the elite level, including a record five wins in the Australian Derby and two victories in the WA Derby.
Smith won two Western Mail Classics (now known as the Kingston Town Classic) with Mighty Kingdom in 1979 and with the champion Kingston Town three years later.
Smith also won the 1981 Railway Stakes with Iko. Fat Al’s win in last month’s Epsom Handicap at Randwick was an emotional moment for Waterhouse, enabling her to equal her father with a seventh victory in the time-honoured mile.
Waterhouse rates Fat Al a far superior galloper to her last Railway runner Bank Robber, who finished fifth to Gilded Venom in 2008.
Nash Rawiller, the stable’s No.1 rider, returns from suspension to replace Tommy Berry on the Al Maher four-year-old, a heavily backed third favourite at $6 with Player.
Waterhouse has disregarded Fat Al’s 12th to Happy Trails in the Emirates Stakes (1600m) at Flemington a fortnight ago.
“He led all the way to win the Epsom Handicap brilliantly,” Waterhouse said.
“I have found that sometimes the first time round Flemington can be a bit daunting. He is not the quickest-thinking horse in the world but he certainly is tough and talented.”
Waterhouse admitted Fat Al’s jump from 52kg in the Epsom to 58kg in the Emirates and second topweight with 57kg in the Railway was a concern.
“Weight does stop trains,” she said. “He has jumped very quickly. Luckily he is big and strong and he does have the services of Nash and no dead weight.
“The track is a good track and he likes that. The owners are all coming over to see him.
“They love the horse and follow him wherever he goes.”
Punters have shied away from Luckygray, with the reigning Railway champion drifting to $4.25.
He has 5kg more than he carried 12 months ago.
The swell of support continued for Ranger ($5.50), who meets Luckygray 8kg better than when he ran a luckless sixth to him last year.
Trainer Grant Williams has put blinkers back on the six-year-old.
“He is not the quickest-thinking horse in the world but he certainly is tough and talented.”"Trainer *Gai Waterhouse *on Railway runner Fat Al
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Fat chance is fine by Gai
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse is confident Fat Al can justify his trip west and deliver her a maiden Group 1 victory in WA with success in today’s $1 million Carlton Draught Railway Stakes (1600m).
Should Fat Al fail to deliver, Waterhouse has a more than handy back up in Hallowell Belle, who takes on local stars Barakey and Travinator in the Crown Perth Winterbottom Stakes (1200m).
Waterhouse’s father, the late Tommy Smith, was a regular visitor to the Ascot summer carnival, where he often locked horns in the 1970s and 80s with Bart Cummings and the late Colin Hayes. He took much of WA’s best silverware home to Tulloch Lodge, amassing 10 wins at the elite level, including a record five wins in the Australian Derby and two victories in the WA Derby.
Smith won two Western Mail Classics (now known as the Kingston Town Classic) with Mighty Kingdom in 1979 and with the champion Kingston Town three years later.
Smith also won the 1981 Railway Stakes with Iko. Fat Al’s win in last month’s Epsom Handicap at Randwick was an emotional moment for Waterhouse, enabling her to equal her father with a seventh victory in the time-honoured mile.
Waterhouse rates Fat Al a far superior galloper to her last Railway runner Bank Robber, who finished fifth to Gilded Venom in 2008.
Nash Rawiller, the stable’s No.1 rider, returns from suspension to replace Tommy Berry on the Al Maher four-year-old, a heavily backed third favourite at $6 with Player.
Waterhouse has disregarded Fat Al’s 12th to Happy Trails in the Emirates Stakes (1600m) at Flemington a fortnight ago.
“He led all the way to win the Epsom Handicap brilliantly,” Waterhouse said.
“I have found that sometimes the first time round Flemington can be a bit daunting. He is not the quickest-thinking horse in the world but he certainly is tough and talented.”
Waterhouse admitted Fat Al’s jump from 52kg in the Epsom to 58kg in the Emirates and second topweight with 57kg in the Railway was a concern.
“Weight does stop trains,” she said. “He has jumped very quickly. Luckily he is big and strong and he does have the services of Nash and no dead weight.
“The track is a good track and he likes that. The owners are all coming over to see him.
“They love the horse and follow him wherever he goes.”
Punters have shied away from Luckygray, with the reigning Railway champion drifting to $4.25.
He has 5kg more than he carried 12 months ago.
The swell of support continued for Ranger ($5.50), who meets Luckygray 8kg better than when he ran a luckless sixth to him last year.
Trainer Grant Williams has put blinkers back on the six-year-old.
“He is not the quickest-thinking horse in the world but he certainly is tough and talented.”"Trainer *Gai Waterhouse *on Railway runner Fat Al
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Rawiller takes Fat chance in Perth
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All the way … Nash Rawiller takes over from Tom Berry, pictured winning the Epsom on Fat Al, in Saturday’s $1 million Railway Stakes (1600 metres) in Perth. Photo: Jenny Evans
EPSOM winner Fat Al can help put a frustrating spring behind champion hoop Nash Rawiller by winning the Railway Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.
Rawiller will look for his first group 1 of the season after a spring that included several near misses, before serving a five-meeting ban for breaking the whip rules again at Gosford on Wednesday. He headed west on Thursday to ride Fat Al for the sixth time after winning on him thrice. He missed his Epsom win because the four-year-old was down in the weights. “He is going to be suited by the way this race will be run,” Rawiller said.
“When you look at his run in the Emirates, he had to do a lot of work to get to the front and that is just not him. It is hard to lead all the way at Flemington at the best of times but to do the work he had to to get there, he really didn’t have a hope.”
Fat Al dropped out to run 12th in the Emirates Stakes, which was his first run since dominating the Epsom at the beginning of October. Rawiller believes that win at Randwick showed Fat Al at his best.
“He is the sort of horse that can take up a position and if he can roll at his own rhythm, he is very hard to beat,” Rawiller said. “He just keeps finding. That how he won the Epsom and he did something similar when I rode him in the Frank Packer Plate. If he is comfortable he gives a real good kick.”
Fat Al has been the best supported runner in the Railway, backed from $14 into a $7.50 third favourite behind Perth pair Luckygray, the $3.50 TAB Sportsbet favourite, and Ranger at $6.
Rawiller is looking forward to reuniting with another Gai Waterhouse raider, Upon This Rock, in the earlier Jungle Mist Classic at Ascot.
“She is in great order and is a bit of a stable pet, so I would love to win a black-type race on her,” Rawiller said. “She has such a great attitude and is very honest and at home she is the horse everyone wants to ride work, so she is a bit special.”
Rawiller will start his whip suspension after Saturday as two-year-old Divine Calling will not run in the Clockwise Classic at Ballarat on Sunday. “He isn’t running, which is a bit disappointing because I was looking forward to riding in the race going the other way in Melbourne,” he said. “It is something I haven’t done before.”
Rawiller fell foul of the stewards once again for raising his arm above his shoulder when using the whip on Wednesday. “It is something that happens about one in every 20 rides and I have been trying to work out,” Rawiller said. “I changed my style when the rules changed and I’m still trying to get it right.”
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Al set to join Gai at Super Saturday
Group 1 Epsom Handicap winner Fat Al is rated a big chance of joining stablemate Hallowell Belle in Gai Waterhouse’s raid on Super Saturday at Ascot.
Fat Al will be set for the Group 1 $1 million Carlton Draught Railway Stakes (1600m) on November 24 if he performs well in tomorrow’s Emirates Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.
Waterhouse’s racing manager Bruce Slade yesterday indicated the all-conquering stable was keen to head to Perth with Fat Al and Hallowell Belle, who tackles tomorrow’s Patinack Farm Classic (1200m).
Hallowell Belle, raced by WA businessman Craig Thompson, is being set for the Group 1 $500,000 Crown Perth Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) on Super Saturday.
Four-year-old Fat Al has won six of his 10 starts and scored a brilliant all-the-way win in the Epsom (1600m) at Randwick last month.
“He’s a very big chance to go to Perth,” Slade said.
“Provided they both run well on Saturday, they’ll both be there.”
Fresh from victory in last Saturday’s VRC Derby with Fiveandahalfstar, trainer Anthony Cummings is considering the Railway for Strike The Stars, and Winterbottom for Fontelina.
Strike The Stars is fourth emergency for the Emirates, but is also in a 1600m race at Flemington tomorrow.
Fontelina tackles the Patinack.
Queensland trainer Tony Gollan is keen to start either Temple Of Boom or Spirit Of Boom in the Winterbottom.
Gollan will make his decision on which of the half-brothers head to Perth after they clash in the Patinack.
“I feel both horses are hitting their peak,” Gollan said.
Ace Melbourne jockey Glen Boss is booked to ride local sprinter Travinator in the Winterbottom.
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Paul Harvey will replace Peter Knuckey on King Saul in the Lee-Steere. Knuckey will not ride this weekend after suffering a minor concussion in a fall at trackwork yesterday morning.
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Fat Al on target for another Group One
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Fat Al on target for another Group One
Tommy Berry doubts anything will top riding in his first Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, other than winning the famous race in future years.
But a victory in his second Group One ride at Flemington aboard Fat Al in Saturday’s Emirates Stakes (1600m) would certainly cap a week the young jockey will never forget.
Berry rode in his first Melbourne Cup aboard Glencadam Gold who led the field for much of the 3200m until being overhauled in the final 300m to finish sixth.
“Unless I win the Melbourne Cup, I don’t think anything will top that,” Berry said.
“But it would still be a massive thrill if I could win a Group One at Flemington during Cup week.
“I’m really looking forward to the race and it’s great to get the opportunity to ride Fat Al again after winning the Epsom on him last start.
“I worked him this morning and his work was outstanding.
“He would have to be pretty hard to beat off his last win, even though he’s going up a lot in weight.”
Fat Al formed part of a Group One double for Berry when he won the Epsom Handicap at Randwick last month.
Berry also claimed the Metropolitan Handicap aboard Glencadam Gold on the same afternoon.
Fat Al will jump from barrier five in the Emirates Stakes, the final Group One of the Melbourne spring carnival.
A full field of 16 plus four emergencies was declared for the race on Wednesday with Fat Al one of five equal topweights on 58kg along with Happy Trails (barrier 10), Playing God (one), Solzhenitsyn (two) and the 2010 winner Wall Street (13).
Top Sydney mares Streama and Secret Admirer faired poorly at the barrier draw with gates 16 and 20 respectively, while last weekend’s impressive winner Fawkner has gate three.
It will be five weeks between runs for Fat Al but the gelding was kept up to the mark with a Cranbourne barrier trial over 1550m on October 23 which he won by 4-1/2 lengths.
“Vlad Duric rode him in that trial and was full of praise for him,” Berry said.
Fat Al defeated Ambidexter by a head in the Epsom and the Peter Snowden-trained runner will again be among his rivals on Saturday.
Fawkner has been installed favourite ahead of Toorak winner Solzhenitsyn and Fat Al.
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Fat Al gives Waterhouse a seventh Epsom
Gai Waterhouse paid tribute to her late father TJ Smith after equalling his record of seven Epsom Handicaps with all-the-way winner Fat Al.
The famous Randwick mile held on the racecourse which was Waterhouse’s childhood playground, was held in gloomy conditions on Saturday but nothing could dim the smile on the trainer’s face.
“It’s mind boggling,” Waterhouse said about equalling her father’s record, something she is getting used to.
“You never think you are going to do it.
“If it wasn’t for Dad I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing.”
What she is doing is training racehorses – and her jockeys – with Epsom winner Tommy Berry acknowledging a stiff talking to from the trainer.
“She gave me a talking to and it worked,” he said.
“I have come a long way since I’ve been at the stable and it’s great to win for Gai.”
Among Fat Al’s owners are Waterhouse’s daughter Kate and her husband Luke Ricketson who were on hand to see Berry take favourite Fat Al ($4.60) to the lead out of the barriers.
Under hard riding, Fat Al denied Ambidexter by a head with Rolling Pin ($41) another 1-1/2 lengths third.
Topweight Shoot Out ($6) was the best of premier trainer Chris Waller’s trio, finishing seventh with Said Com ($17) 11th and Rangirangdoo ($12) 12th.
Waterhouse said Fat Al had been appropriately named as a young horse but had blossomed as he got older.
“He was a roly poly horse when he started and two years later he is here winning an Epsom,” she said.
“I’m privileged to train him.”
Berry said he had been caught by surprise by how close Ambidexter got to him.
“I knew Rolling Pin was there but Ambidexter caught me by surprise,” he said.
“He got to me but I don’t think he got past me.”
Last year’s winner Secret Admirer made ground late to finish fifth, 2-1/4 lengths from the winner.
She carried 54kg compared to the three placegetters who all had 52kg, which her jockey James McDonald said was a telling factor.
“She ran home really strongly but it was just too big a task to give away the weight to those four-year-olds,” he said.
Berry’s twin brother Nathan was on another of the Waterhouse runners, Kontiki Park, who trailed the 15-horse field while stablemate Wild And Proud finished 10th.
Apprentice Chad Schofield, who replaced an ailing Christian Reith on the Gwenda Markwell-trained Rolling Pin, was fined $200 for overuse of the whip.
Reith was stood down earlier in the day after fainting having wasted during the week to make the 52kg.
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Berry grabs the Fat chance
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Gift for Gai … Tommy Berry celebrates his victory on Fat Al for Gai Waterhouse in yesterday’s Epsom. Waterhouse said Berry had given the horse a ”perfect” ride. Photo: Jenny Evans
TOMMY BERRY might have got his first group 1 on Epaulette in the Golden Rose but there is no doubt his victory on Fat Al for Gai Waterhouse in yesterday’s Epsom surpassed his $1 million triumph.
Often racing is not about money but opportunity; that was the case for Berry, who was picked up by Waterhouse as her No.2 rider about 20 months ago.
”That’s unreal,” Berry enthused. ”To win one for Gai after everything she has done for me is fantastic.
”You always remember your first [group 1] but that was better.”
Waterhouse said Berry had given Fat Al a ”perfect” ride as he went to the front and controlled the Randwick mile to draw her equal with her father Tommy Smith on seven Epsom wins. ”Tommy has cottoned on to how we do things very quickly and that was an example of it,” Waterhouse said. ”He is a wonderful young man and deserves that.”
Fat Al, which was beaten as $1.30 in the Shannon Stakes last week, jumped straight to the front and Berry was able to dictate the speed to suit him. It was back to the regular tactics after he took a sit seven days earlier.
”There was huge wind last week and he just buffered all the way and it didn’t help at all,” Waterhouse said. ”He was able to front and get his rhythm out there and Tommy rated him perfectly.”
There was no pressure on Fat Al to lead, with Rolling Pin happy to take a trail. When he loomed up to challenge in the straight, Berry found another gear and then had to hold off a late charge from Ambidexter, which had beaten him in the Theo Marks last month.
Kerrin McEvoy thought he had got the better of Fat Al in the final 100m. ”He just pulled up when he got to the front and stopped,” he said.
Berry got more out of Fat Al and he had a head margin on the post from Ambidexter, with Rolling Pin holding on for third, just in front of Lightinthenite.
”I have to say I was surprised with how easy I got it in the middle stages,” Berry said. ”Everyone was querying the run last week but Gai had trained him to the minute for this race and he was always going to be very hard to get past.”
It put right what had been a bad day for Waterhouse, who had seen Proisir and Urban Groove beaten as favourite in the Spring Champion and Flight Stakes.
The middle stages took the swoopers out of the race, and both John O’Shea and Grahame Begg, who trained fourth Lightinthenite and fifth Secret Admirer respectively, lamented the speed.
”They just didn’t go hard enough,” O’Shea said. ”He tried hard but the leaders went too easy … just look where the horses that finished in front of him were in the run.”
Begg added about last winner Secret Admirer: ”She was able to get into the race because they went too slow.”
Gwenda Markwell said Rolling Pin could be freshened up and taken to Melbourne for a race like the Salinger on Derby Day.
”He is going great and tried very hard,” Markwell said. ”I would love to take him to Melbourne and get in one of those sprints down the straight.”
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Berry grabs the Fat chance
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Gift for Gai … Tommy Berry celebrates his victory on Fat Al for Gai Waterhouse in yesterday’s Epsom. Waterhouse said Berry had given the horse a ”perfect” ride. Photo: Jenny Evans
TOMMY BERRY might have got his first group 1 on Epaulette in the Golden Rose but there is no doubt his victory on Fat Al for Gai Waterhouse in yesterday’s Epsom surpassed his $1 million triumph.
Often racing is not about money but opportunity; that was the case for Berry, who was picked up by Waterhouse as her No.2 rider about 20 months ago.
”That’s unreal,” Berry enthused. ”To win one for Gai after everything she has done for me is fantastic.
”You always remember your first [group 1] but that was better.”
Waterhouse said Berry had given Fat Al a ”perfect” ride as he went to the front and controlled the Randwick mile to draw her equal with her father Tommy Smith on seven Epsom wins. ”Tommy has cottoned on to how we do things very quickly and that was an example of it,” Waterhouse said. ”He is a wonderful young man and deserves that.”
Fat Al, which was beaten as $1.30 in the Shannon Stakes last week, jumped straight to the front and Berry was able to dictate the speed to suit him. It was back to the regular tactics after he took a sit seven days earlier.
”There was huge wind last week and he just buffered all the way and it didn’t help at all,” Waterhouse said. ”He was able to front and get his rhythm out there and Tommy rated him perfectly.”
There was no pressure on Fat Al to lead, with Rolling Pin happy to take a trail. When he loomed up to challenge in the straight, Berry found another gear and then had to hold off a late charge from Ambidexter, which had beaten him in the Theo Marks last month.
Kerrin McEvoy thought he had got the better of Fat Al in the final 100m. ”He just pulled up when he got to the front and stopped,” he said.
Berry got more out of Fat Al and he had a head margin on the post from Ambidexter, with Rolling Pin holding on for third, just in front of Lightinthenite.
”I have to say I was surprised with how easy I got it in the middle stages,” Berry said. ”Everyone was querying the run last week but Gai had trained him to the minute for this race and he was always going to be very hard to get past.”
It put right what had been a bad day for Waterhouse, who had seen Proisir and Urban Groove beaten as favourite in the Spring Champion and Flight Stakes.
The middle stages took the swoopers out of the race, and both John O’Shea and Grahame Begg, who trained fourth Lightinthenite and fifth Secret Admirer respectively, lamented the speed.
”They just didn’t go hard enough,” O’Shea said. ”He tried hard but the leaders went too easy … just look where the horses that finished in front of him were in the run.”
Begg added about last winner Secret Admirer: ”She was able to get into the race because they went too slow.”
Gwenda Markwell said Rolling Pin could be freshened up and taken to Melbourne for a race like the Salinger on Derby Day.
”He is going great and tried very hard,” Markwell said. ”I would love to take him to Melbourne and get in one of those sprints down the straight.”
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Fat Al gives Gai a seventh Epsom Handicap
Gai Waterhouse has claimed a record-equalling seventh Epsom Handicap win after Fat Al defied his rivals in the famous Randwick mile.
Waterhouse joins her father Tommy Smith in the Epsom record books as the race’s most successful trainer.
But it wasn’t easy as Fat Al looked certain to be beaten in the straight when Ambidexter loomed strongly.
Giving Tommy Berry his second Group One triumph in three weeks, Fat Al rallied when it mattered to edge out his Peter Snowden-trained rival.
Rolling Pin ran the race of his life to finish third.
Berry, who described Fat Al “as a fighter”, reserved most of his praise for Waterhouse.
“She is a genius,” he said. “She has made me the rider I am today.”
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