Having previously won the G3 VRC Carbine Club Stakes (1600m) on five occasions, with each winner going on to claim G1 success during their race careers, the Waller stable added a sixth winner to their record as the lightly raced The Roaring Sun looks destined for bigger things.
With stablemate Unhinged sent off as the favourite off the back of two recent wins, The Roaring Sun was coming into the race off the back of just two previous starts where he was in the money on both occasions.
Coming across the outside barrier to take up the running, the Anthony and Sam Freedman trained Snitzel colt Fast Freddie settled two lengths clear on the rail with High Falls in second while the favourite was getting a lovely run in third on the rail while his stablemate The Roaring Sun was tracking him back in sixth.
With the tempo slightly sedate in the early stages, as the field started to head to the home turn, the runs were starting to come with High Falls taking it up to the leader as Unhinged was searching for a gap on the rail.
With jockey Damian Lane edging off the rail to secure a run aboard The Roaring Sun, Clinton McDonald’s Conquer The World was putting himself into the picture as he made a line of three at the front of the field.
Jockey James McDonald persisted for a run aboard Unhinged, eventually squeezing between the tiring Fast Freddie and High Falls to take the lead at the clock tower, but Lane was in clear running down the outside where powered home aboard The Roaring Sun to pass his stablemate and take the prize under hands and heels.
The Roaring Sun won the $500,000 race by a length from Unhinged, with Conquer The World holding on for third to be beaten a long head at his fourth start.
A roaring start to the Carnival! ?? THE ROARING SUN takes out the @Channel9 Carbine Club Stakes to open #DerbyDay at Flemington! #MelbCupCarnival https://t.co/eagKL9eBxI
— Victoria Racing Club (@FlemingtonVRC) October 31, 2026
Having previously won the race with Kermadec (NZ), Comin’ Through, Fangirl and in the past two years with Aeliana (NZ) and Panova, the Waller camp clearly understands what it takes to win the race and uses it as a spring target.
Representing the stable, Charlie Duckworth was asked if this raced was targeted with the colt.
“Absolutely,” said Duckworth. “Right from his two-year-old campaign we tried to get him to a JJ Atkins. That's sort of the quality of horse we thought he was.”
“He had a setback so he had to go out and spell, so we told the boys we were going to aim at the Carbine Club, this is in May, so six months in the making and you think, oh you get beaten at the provincials (first up).
“Some of these guys, it's their first horse. So Tony Mulo, who's been a massive supporter of Chris right the way through, it's his son and a group of his mates who own the horse.
“So they're all obviously here and sort of been waiting six months going, "Oh we've got this runner on Derby Day."
“And then you draw the car park and speed comes out and your horse goes a bit keen and you think whatever can go wrong has and then Damian just rode him beautifully, got some cover found the back of the right horse and he was he was brilliant late because he's a big, big boy, he's a big horse and he takes a bit of getting into gear but he was very dominant late.”
Riding the colt for the first time, Lane was complimentary of the way The Roaring Sun quickened when needed.
“He jumped a bit awkward and I copped a check straight out the barriers, which usually is a big disadvantage but I was just able to switch straight across heels and with no speed just sucked straight up behind Unhinged so the first part of the race worked out as well as I could have hoped,” said Lane.
“I thought he did a good job to quicken really well, because it was a steady run affair so it was going to be a sprint home and I just had to make up a couple of lengths on a couple of the fancies and he did so quickly and went on by quick so I think he showed that he's taken good improvement out of his last two runs. He's got a good turn of foot up to this distance.”
With a first, second and third from his three runs to date, The Roaring Sun took his earnings to $319,800, having now surpassed the $240,000 Tim Roberts Bloodstock parted ways with to secure the Arrowfield Stud consigned colt at the Magic Millions yearling sale.
Bred by Arrowfield Group and Waltrin Pty Ltd, The Roaring Sun is the first winner, and stakes winner out of the raced twice Pour Moi (IRE) mare Let’s Get Loud, a half-sister to G1 winner Chenille and the G2-winning, G1 placed Chintz, herself the dam of the G2 winner Not An Option.
From the extended family of multiple G1 winner Mo’Unga, Let’s Get Loud foaled a filly from the first crop of triple G1 winner Hitotsu the year after producing The Roaring Sun, with the mare having produced another filly by the son of Maurice (Jpn) in mid-August this year.
The Roaring Sun becomes the 14th stakes winner for The Autumn Sun with the five-time G1-winning son of Redoute’s Choice standing at a fee of $137,500 (inc. GST) this season.
