SCHWEPPES THOUSAND

GUINEAS (GROUP 1)

HAVING won the Flight Stakes just seven days earlier, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Global Glamour has completed a Group 1 double with an all the way win in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield.

The winner is owned by an international group of 40 women across seven countries that include racing people the calibre of Elaine Lawlor (Goffs), Anna Seitz (Fasig-Tipton), Sophie Sangster (wife of Adam), Petrea Vella (New Zealand Bloodstock), Sue Henderson (wife of Terry), Sophie Magnier (wife of Tom) and Francesca Cumani.

The formation of the It’s All About The Girls’ Syndicate was in response to Katie Page-Harvey’s innovative Magic Millions Racing Women promotion that carries a A$500,000 bonus to the first four all-female owned or leased horses in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic. With a budget of $100,000, the ladies enlisted James Bester to do the ground-work at the Magic Millions, the result being the Star Witness filly out of out of the Testa Rossa mare Spectacula who they bought for $65,000.

Two Group 1s from three wins in five starts and the ladies are well ahead.

With Kerrin McEvoy in the saddle, Global Glamour won by a length from the I Am Invincible filly I Am a Star and the Hinchinbrook filly Whispering Brook.

Waterhouse, celebrating her first Thousand Guineas win, was not clear on the next move with Global Glamour but suggested she would be rested. “There are a couple of options, maybe the Coolmore Classic (in March at Rosehill), the 1,500-metre race for fillies and mares.’’