A busy Tuesday with Flemington's spring build-up front and centre, as Gai Waterhouse declares last year's Turnbull winner Sir Delius back to his best and the first of the overseas cups raiders settles into Melbourne quarantine. Abroad, Nicky Henderson has picked an Italian Group 2 for Constitution Hill, while Keeneland's Fall Stars weekend headlines the American broadcast schedule.
Constitution Hill bound for Milan Group 2
Nicky Henderson has confirmed Constitution Hill will be prepared for the Group 2 Gran Premio del Jockey Club – S.I.R.E. Trofeo Pio Bruni over 1m4f at San Siro on 25 October, a race worth €506,000 and won last year by Eydon. The nine-year-old was not entered for Saturday's Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot because of the expected quick ground, with Henderson hopeful of finding suitable going in Italy. Constitution Hill's unbeaten Flat run ended in the Group 3 September Stakes at Kempton. Henderson said the Milan trip would not be a farewell, with the horse set to race again next year as a ten-year-old.
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Filming wraps on Cody's Wish documentary
Filming has been completed on a documentary about Cody's Wish, which is now in post-production. The producers are targeting a theatrical release in the northern spring of 2027.
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NBC to carry Keeneland Fall Stars weekend
Keeneland opens its month-long autumn meeting on Friday 2 October, with Fall Stars weekend running through Sunday 4 October and featuring eight Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" qualifiers ahead of the 30-31 October championships at the same track. NBC and NBCSN, along with Peacock, will broadcast coverage on each of the three days, while FS1 carries the international races from Longchamp on 4 October. The weekend is unusually busy after last weekend's meeting at the new Belmont Park was postponed due to weather, pushing more stakes into early October.
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Waterhouse happy with Sir Delius before Turnbull
Gai Waterhouse says Sir Delius is "spot on" to defend his Group 1 Turnbull Stakes title at Flemington on Saturday, despite a different preparation to last year. The Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained six-year-old entire comes in second-up after finishing fourth in the G1 Makybe Diva Stakes over 1600m, having been third-up when successful in 2025. He galloped on the course proper at Flemington on Tuesday morning as he chases a fourth Group 1. Waterhouse said a trip to Japan or Hong Kong could follow, with that call resting with Bott and owner Sir Owen Glenn; Sportsbet rated him the $2.80 pre-acceptance favourite.
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Enfjaar settles in with Caulfield Cup the aim
Roger Varian's six-year-old Enfjaar has settled well into Melbourne quarantine and had his first canter in Australia on Wednesday morning, according to travelling foreperson George Tregoning. The stayer completed pre-export quarantine at Newmarket on familiar gallops and came through the flight without losing much weight, with fluids given before and after travel. Unraced since Goodwood on 1 August, he was close to race fitness before leaving Europe and will have fast work around ten days and five days out. He remains entered for the Melbourne Cup but the Caulfield Cup is the primary target.
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Goodwin's Pocketfullofcash lines up in Danehill
Pakenham trainer Reece Goodwin will saddle three-year-old Pocketfullofcash in Saturday's G2 Danehill Stakes at Flemington, potentially the biggest day of a career that began with his licence in 2022. A homebred son of Rich Enuff raced by Graeme and Barbara Gathercole's Graebar Park, the chestnut gelding won a 1000-metre maiden on the Pakenham synthetic on 20 July before being spelled, with the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes on 31 October circled. He has since won an 800-metre Cranbourne trial on 14 September and finished second to Natural Fling in a Flemington jumpout. Blake Shinn rode him in that jumpout.
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