Run The Numbers

Autumn Boy’s victory in the Caulfield Guineas created its own piece of history as the first time three generations of colts - son, sire and grandsire - had won the famous stallion-making race. How unusual is the feat globally? This week’s Run the Numbers finds out.

With her Epsom Handicap victory, Autumn Glow joined a select group of Group 1 winners to have progressed through their first seven starts unbeaten. This week’s Run The Numbers breaks down her quest for equine perfection.

A fourth Golden Rose success for Chris Waller takes centre stage in this week’s Run The Numbers, as the champion trainer advanced his total of Group 1 victories to 182, with a first elite victory for Godolphin.

The use of the term blue hen to describe an influential mare on the pedigree page can be somewhat cavalier in modern bloodstock reporting and analysis. But the stats don’t lie when it comes to two key maternal ancestors in the damlines of Saturday’s two Group 1 winners at Caulfield.

Only a select number of horses have won Group 1 races in five consecutive Australian racing seasons. Mr Brightside became the fourth in the past 35 years with his victory at Flemington on Saturday.

The win of Baraqiel in the Moir Stakes not only enhanced the remarkable record of his dam, Angel Of Mercy, but the legacy of two of Arrowfield’s most influential stallions of the 21st century, Snitzel and Hussonet.

With four stakes winners, including a Group 1 victory, it was a bottle green blitz for Yulong across Australia on Saturday. Recent history suggests that with 29 Australian stakes wins in the past 13 months, it might be a scene we get well used to by the end of the racing season.