2015 Arrowfield 3YO Sprint Nominations – The Championships

Nominations for 10 of the major races held over the two-day The Championships during the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival were released this week including 116 entries for the Arrowfield 3YO Sprint 2015.

Golden Slipper winning filly Mossfun is one of the headline 2015 Arrowfield 3YO Stakes nominations taken by the ATC this week. Photo: Steve Hart.

Early entries flooded in for the season’s premier races with over 1000 nominations in total.

Officially 1221 nominations were taken for the 10 races run at Royal Randwick on April 4 and April 11.

Along with eight Group 1 races, two non-elite level events staged on the second Saturday – Sydney Cup Day – also closed on Monday including those for the $500,000 Group 2 Arrowfield 3YO Sprint (1200m).

The 116 three-year-olds heading towards that race is up 13 from 2013, while there were 28 more two-year-old fillies nominated for this year’s $500,000 Group 3 Girvan Waugh Percy Skyes Stakes on last year.

Moved from February, the Arrowfield 3YO Sprint has become the autumn sprint championship for three-year-olds and is also known as the Royal Sovereign Stakes.

Last year’s Royal Sovereign Stakes winner was the Godolphin-owned Sidestep.

The stable have a host of entries in the Arrowfield 3YO Sprint for 2015, all now prepared by their new head trainer John O’Shea.

The stable’s premier hopeful is Blue Diamond Stakes winning filly Earthquake, the daughter of Exceed And Excel having won back-to-back Cranbourne trials leading up to her autumn return.

Some of Godolphin’s other best entries include undefeated Lonhro filly Cleanse, Group 2 winning Shamardal colt Ghibellines, Group 1 performed Kumaon, Golden Slipper fifth placed filly Memorial, and first-up Canterbury winner from February 6 Meursault.

Earthquake is just one of a host of Group 1 winning three-year-olds eyeing the half-a-million in prize money on offer in the Arrowfield Sprint this April, as is the Team Hawkes-trained Mossfun.

Mossman filly Mossfun has won four of her five starts to date, her only loss being a second to Earthquake in the Group 2 Reisling Stakes (1200m) last March.

She atoned for that in the world’s richest race for two-year-olds however when turning the tables on Earthquake with the fillies running one-two in the Golden Slipper last April.

Mossfun hasn’t run since but has trialled well in two official hit-outs this summer.

Two of the other Group 1 champions in the mix are Chris Waller’s Coolmore Stud Stakes winner Brazen Beau and JJ Atkins champ Almalad for Gai Waterhouse who beat Brazen Beau home in the Brisbane winter feature.

Sydney’s premier trainer Waller has a total of six Arrowfield 3YO Stakes entries with Brazen Beau joined by the likes of Group 2 winning filly Winx who ran second to First Seal in the Group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) over the Randwick mile in October and his Coolmore Stud Stakes runner-up Delectation.

Shamardal gelding Delectation was beaten just over a length by his stablemate in the Coolmore on Derby Day at Flemington in November and resumed last Saturday in Sydney for a close second to Scissor Kick in the Group 3 Eskimo Prince Stakes (1200m).

The Paul Messara-trained Redoute’s Choice colt Scissor Kick is also in the Arrowfield Stakes entries, the Golden Rose runner-up a two-time winner over the distance and undefeated in two previous Randwick runs.

Third in the Eskimo Prince at Rosehill was another of Waller’s Arrowfield entries, Dane Shadow gelding Harrier Jet.

Third behind Brazen Boy and Delectation in the Coolmore Stud Stakes, Kuro is another exciting Arrowfield hopeful from the Sydney stables of Joe Pride.

Other notable Arrowfield 3YO Sprint nominees include Choisir filly Eloping who resumes at Caulfield this weekend, Oakleigh Plate-bound Oakleigh Girl and Panzer Division who resumed with an Expressway Stakes fourth on January 31.

See below for the full Arrowfield 3YO Sprint 2015 nominations.

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2015 Arrowfield 3YO Stakes Nominations

Royal Randwick – 11/04/2015

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Hcp. Rating
1	6x121119x	AFLEET ESPRIT	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
2	x11x94180x	ALMALAD	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
3	111x	AMERICAN HUSSLER	Matthew Dunn	N/A
4	–	APERCHOIX	Clarry Conners	N/A
5	35x15844x	ARMADA	Peter G Moody	N/A
6	1x240x7x	BETTER LAND	Peter G Moody	N/A
7	1x	BIG CLIPPER	Gai Waterhouse	66
8	16x	BINARY (NZ)	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	67
9	2x	BLEUFONTEIN	Anthony Cummings	N/A
10	x330x4812x	BOOMWAA	Robbie Laing	82
11	5x122x511x	BRAZEN BEAU	Chris Waller	N/A
12	313x18740x	BRING ME THE MAID	Peter G Moody	N/A
13	11x	CLEANSE	John O’Shea	N/A
14	12124x	CONFEDERATE	Gai Waterhouse	68
15	53303x960x	CORNROW	Mick Price	N/A
16	–	CROSS COURT	Gerald Ryan	N/A
17	6x	DEFENDER	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
18	11x4342x2x	DELECTATION	Chris Waller	N/A
19	1112x3318x	EARTHQUAKE	John O’Shea	N/A
20	714x31162x	ELOPING	Peter Morgan & Craig Widdison	N/A
21	11x	FACE FORWARD	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	N/A
22	–	FILL ME UP	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
23	10110x	GALAXY PEGASUS	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
24	x3518x300x	GHIBELLINES	John O’Shea	N/A
25	35x1511x	GLOBAL DOMINATION	Gai Waterhouse	72
26	111x	GOLD SEVENTY SEVEN	Kris Lees	75
27	420x180x	GRECO	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
28	316x13223x	HARRIER JET	Chris Waller	82
29	1x	IL MAESTRO	Bart & James Cummings	63
30	1313x30x	INKLING	Peter & Paul Snowden	N/A
31	18x4x	INVISIBLE	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	67
32	2x2270x69x	JABALI	Mick Price	N/A
33	1x	JACKPOT (NZ)	Michael Moroney	N/A
34	2x43x13x	JOHNHRO	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
35	42x	JOYFUL JOURNEY	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
36	22x	KARIGARA (NZ)	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
37	0x327x	KIND HEART	John P Thompson	N/A
38	3x20340x0x	KUMAON	John O’Shea	N/A
39	165x11113x	KURO (NZ)	Joseph Pride	N/A
40	32x10x111x	LADY JETSETTER	Liam Birchley	N/A
41	36x1366x	LADY SHARAPOVA	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
42	4x	LAGONDA	Chris Waller	N/A
43	140x38627x	LAW	Chris Waller	80
44	65x12500x	LIBERATION	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
45	211x49430x	LONDON LOLLY	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
46	–	LOONG FOO	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
47	–	MAN OF DISTINCTION	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
48	714x7111x	MARPLE MISS	Kris Lees	N/A
49	1x2958x26x	MEMORIAL	John O’Shea	84
50	1x6x231x	MEURSAULT	John O’Shea	77
51	12588x	MIHANY	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
52	1x0600x6x	MOONLIGHT HUSSLER	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
53	34x6323x	MORE RADIANT	Mick Price	N/A
54	1x1121x	MOSSFUN	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	105
55	211x	MUSIC MAGNATE (NZ)	Bjorn Baker	71
56	–	MYFAVOURITETHINGS	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
57	2x	NAJOOM	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
58	110x75x	NAYELI	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
59	13x1428x	NORDIC EMPIRE	Mick Price	N/A
60	147x17520x	NOSTRADAMUS	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
61	1142x65x	OAKLEIGH GIRL	Danny J Bougoure	N/A
62	9x111x	ONEMOREZETA	Kris Lees	85
63	17x15x	ONEROUS	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
64	45x1114x	PALAZZO PUBBLICO	Sam Kavanagh	72
65	12155x4x	PANZER DIVISION	Paul Messara	90
66	13x	PEEPING	Ron Quinton	65
67	213215x57x	PEGGY JEAN	Gerald Ryan	94
68	1188x	PIENKNA	Tony Gollan	N/A
69	6x21x42x	PINCHME	Gai Waterhouse	66
70	3114x	POWERLINE	Kris Lees	67
71	–	PUISSANCE DECHEVAL (IRE)	David Vandyke	N/A
72	–	PUZZLING WONDER	Anthony Cummings	N/A
73	2x	RATIONALITY	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	N/A
74	3616x	REKINDLED POWER	Paul Messara	N/A
75	112x1x	ROYAL SNITZEL	Mick Price	N/A
76	114x10x	RUBICK	Gerald Ryan	N/A
77	1x446x1x	SARAJEVO	John O’Shea	75
78	1x1221x	SAVOUREUX	Kris Lees	N/A
79	x111229x1x	SCISSOR KICK	Paul Messara	N/A
80	1x5x	SEGREGATION	John O’Shea	68
81	130x	SHACARDE	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
82	x14314443x	SHAF	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
83	1x	SHAHRAZAD	Bart & James Cummings	67
84	133x5x	SHAUMARI	John O’Shea	78
85	11x	SISTONIC	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
86	1x	SKYLIMIT	Gai Waterhouse	67
87	161x	SLIGHTLY SWEET	Jason Coyle	71
88	17x	SNAKE CHARMER	John P Thompson	N/A
89	26127x418x	SOLDI DOMANI	Bryan Dais	N/A
90	5x	SUDDEN BLITZ	Anthony Cummings	N/A
91	137x14524x	SULTRY FEELING	Bart & James Cummings	N/A
92	212x	SUPARA	Gai Waterhouse	71
93	26x	SUPIDO	Michael Kent	N/A
94	–	SURFER	Anthony Cummings	N/A
95	5x	SWING SENSATION	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
96	67x312526x	TAHNI DANCER	Clinton McDonald	N/A
97	–	TALIMENA	John O’Shea	N/A
98	x113213x1x	TAWTEEN	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
99	3x	THALIA	John O’Shea	N/A
100	113x	THINKING OF YOU (NZ)	Peter G Moody	76
101	D70x	THIS IS AUSTRALIA	Gerald Ryan	67
102	–	TRACK FLASH	Anthony Cummings	N/A
103	2326x2x9x	TWIRL	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
104	3110x3539x	VALENTIA	Gai Waterhouse	84
105	1x2x	VEZALAY	Leon & Troy Corstens	N/A
106	7x35717x	VIASCON	Ron Quinton	N/A
107	75x714459x	VOLLEY OF FIRE	Anthony Cummings	60
108	44x404730x	WANDJINA	Gai Waterhouse	N/A
109	16x	WAR FRONT	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	62
110	2x26x	WASHINGTON HEIGHTS	Gerald Ryan	78
111	1x11x1x	WAWAIL	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	N/A
112	21x	WELL HARDLEY EVER	Clarry Conners	63
113	11x122x	WINX	Chris Waller	96
114	1222x6305x	YGRITTE	Gerald Ryan	N/A
115	09x51354x	ZEDFAST	Jason Coyle	64
116	12x13x	ZELETTO	Luke Oliver	N/A