Juddmonte is one of the most successful breeding operations in the world and two of their blueblood homebred horses sold to Australia as tried horses posted Group wins on Saturday with Pinhole (GB) taking out the Group II MRC Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) and Formal Display (GB) capturing the $1.5million Group III ATC Alan Brown Stakes (1400m).
Click here to read about the Chris Waller trained Frankel stayer Pinhole (GB).
Annabel and Rob Archibald are the trainers of Too Darn Hot gelding Formal Display (GB), who is headed to the $3million ATC Big Dance on Melbourne Cup day, but was able to add a nice bonus on the way when scoring his first stakes victory today.
Formal Display has been making great progress this year winning four of five starts between March and June before taking a short break and returning with a fifth in the Group III ATC Bill Ritchie Handicap last month.
Ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, he went forward from a wide gate and it proved a winning move as he led for home and kicked strongly to win by half a length.
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“The Big Dance is obviously the Grand Final, but happy to win $1.5 million race on the way through. It was no surprise either but I was a little surprised by his odds to be honest but maybe it was the (wide) barrier,” said Annabel Neasham.
“We were a little bit worried about the map but Kerrin (McEvoy) made the right decision (early).
“He is very progressive and Triple Crown have another nice horse on their hands. He has plenty of improvement to come. He obviously got qualified early on in the Tamworth Cup and from that day onwards we knew the Big Dance would be his Grand Final.
“We have been able to ‘prep’ accordingly so it was always the Bill Ritchie, this race and then the Big Dance.’’
Formal Display was purchased for 100,000 guineas at the 2024 Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale by Blandford Bloodstock / Annabel Neasham Racing and has the overall record of eight wins and four placings from 19 starts.
Bred and raced originally by Juddmonte, he left the UK after seven starts that yielded two minor wins at Dundalk and Gowran Park.
Formal Display is a half-brother to Group winners Time Test and Tempus as well as stakes-winner Cosmic Year being the fourth SW from eight winners out of 10 foals to race from Group I winning Dansilli mare Passage of Time.
Formal Display is the 39th stakes-winner worldwide for Darley shuttler Too Darn hot, who is in Australia for Darley this spring at a fee of $275,000.
