ANTINO KICKS OFF A NEW CAMPAIGN IN THE ALL AGED

By Graham Potter | Thursday, April 18, 2024

The Tony Gollan trained Group 1 winner Antino will fly the Queensland flag when he resumes in the Group 1 All Aged Stakes over 1400m at Randwick on Saturday.

Apart from Antino’s last start result when on an international mission in Hong Kong back in December … you can simply draw a line through that luckless, interference plagued run which Gollan termed ‘a disaster’ … the six-year-old son of Redwood has been exemplary in his five other starts this season.

Antino did the stable proud in those five runs … four of which were in Group 1 company … highlighted by a well-deserved win in the Toorak Handicap and soundly supplemented by a runner-up finish to Mr Brightside in the Group 1 Championship Mile/Cantala Stakes (when beating Fangirl home), a third place in the Group 1 Makybe Diva (behind Mr Brightside and Pride Of Jenni) , a third place in the Group 2 Feehan (behind Pride Of Jenni and Mr Brightside) and, initially, a fourth place in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes when resuming after a two month break from racing.

Mr Brightside is a nineteen-time winner with over $17 million banked in prise-money while Pride of Jenni is a nine-time winner with a current prize-money haul of $10 million, so, Antino has been mixing it with big names and trading punch for punch with them without flinching.

Underlining that point is the fact that when beaten by 2.25 lengths by Pride Of Jenni in the Feehan, Antino carried 2kg more than the mare … and when beaten by Mr Brightside in the Cantala Stakes by only 0.46 lengths, these two runners met at level weights.

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