“With both Sierra Sue and Inspirational Girl, highly impressive winners of the Futurity Stakes and the Blamey Stakes respectively, also carrying very strong form lines into the world’s richest mile race, it would be no surprise to see another wildcard winner of The All-Star Mile.” “Three-year-olds boast an outstanding record in The All-Star Mile, with Mystic Journey winning in 2019 and Superstorm going mightily close to upsetting his stablemate Regal Power 12 months later, and I have no doubt these three are all capable of continuing that excellent record at Flemington in just under two weeks’ time.
“Hitotsu was impossible to ignore after his win in the Australian Guineas, and despite not winning Lightsaber and the luckless Pinstriped both enhanced their cases for inclusion, especially when viewed in the light of their previous performances. “After much debate over the past 48 hours, the wildcard panel eventually settled on a talented trio of three-year-olds in Hitotsu, Lightsaber and Pinstriped, who will inject plenty of excitement and bring X-Factor to what is already shaping up as another a superb field for The All-Star Mile,” said Greg Carpenter, Racing Victoria’s Executive General Manager – Racing. The quality quintet will be aiming to extend an impressive record in the race, with wildcard recipients Mystic Journey (2019) and Mugatoo (2021) having won two of the three previous editions of The All-Star Mile. With Group 1-winning mares Sierra Sue (Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young) and Inspirational Girl (Danny O’Brien) claiming the first two golden tickets courtesy of their respective victories in the Lamaro’s Hotel Futurity Stakes (1400m) and the TAB Blamey Stakes (1600m), all five wildcards have now been assigned for The 2022 All-Star Mile. A trio of top-class three-year-olds are set to add some serious ‘X-factor’ to the world’s richest mile race, after Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) hero Hitotsu and his fellow Stakes winners Lightsaber and Pinstriped were given the three remaining wildcards for the 2022 Seppelt Wines All-Star Mile.Īll three gallopers caught the eye of members of The All-Star Mile wildcard panel with their efforts in the Australian Guineas at Flemington, as Lightsaber ran a courageous second behind Hitotsu whilst Pinstriped’s unbeaten record came to an end with a luckless fifth, and the trio will now clash again at the same venue on Saturday, 19 March when they contest the fourth running of Australia’s only fan-voted horse race.
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