AURUM BELLE MAKES A MUCH ANTICIPATED RETURN
By Graham Potter | Wednesday, October 8, 2025
The $125 000 Listed Max Simmonds Stakes, which takes pride of place at Ascot on Saturday, features the much anticipated return of the highly rated, lightly raced Aurum Belle, who has saluted in three out of her four career starts, having already powering her way up the Group 2 level.
This will be Arum Belle’s first start as a three-year-old, following on that near perfect two-year-old campaign, which saw the daughter of Snitzel kick-start her career with a debut win over 1000m … before stepping straight into feature race company and landing back-to-back wins in the Listed Supremacy Stakes over 1000m, as a $1.35 favourite, and the Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes\over 1100m, as the $1.50 favourite … at that stage taking each, significant step up in class in her stride.
The Group 2 Karrakatta, in her final race as two-year-old, was to prove a bridge too far for Aurum Belle, but she still returned a quality third place finish in her first start over 1200m, behind Afireofgidgeecoals and Beatty, who both franked the Karrakatta race form by filling the first two places in the WA Sires Produce Stakes over 1400m in their next start.
Trainer Neville Parnham’s confidence in Aurum Belle has meant he has never been shy to take on quality opposition and that will again be the case on Saturday.
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