The Kembla standalone meeting on Saturday was run in relentless mist and light rain, but the gloomy conditions didn’t dampen the turn of foot possessed by talented Zousain mare Catch the Glory, who powered to the line to win the $300,000 The Warra (1000m).
Trained by Jason Coyle and ridden by Jason Collett, the four year-old has been working through her grades following a fourth in the Listed ATC Fireball Stakes during the autumn won by Enriched.
Given a freshen up following a second placing at Rosehill in a Benchmark 88 event in September, Catch the Glory was tuned up for this assignment with a couple of recent trials and was ready to fire.
She was strong all the way to the line holding a margin of a long neck over smart mare The Black Cloud.
A $50,000 Magic Millions National Yearling purchase for her trainer from the Bhima Thoroughbreds draft at Magic Millions, Catch the Glory has the overall record of five wins and four placings from 14 starts with prizemoney topping $485,000.
Catch the Glory is the best of two winners from Catch That Cat, a metro winner by Tale of the Cat (USA) tracing back to fourth dam Group II placed Clear Apollo, a half-sister to Golden Slipper winner Star Watch.
While The Warra is presented as a G3 by Racing NSW and Racing Australia, the race is not recognized as officially having Black Type, so Catch the Glory does not rate as a new SW for Zousain.
Zousain has 16 entries for Magic Millions and 19 for Inglis Classic.
