Whoever wins this Saturday’s Tattersall’s Tiara will significantly enhance their value and it is arguable none have the potential to be as valuable as leading contender Floozie.
Few in Australia’s final Group 1 of the season, which is restricted to fillies and mares, can boast the bloodlines of the Tony Gollan-trained mare.
The four-year-old is by Widden stallion Zoustar, who is charging towards a maiden Australian Champion Sire award, out former star filly Catchy.
That daughter of Fastnet Rock was one of the stars of her generation, winning the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes at two and placing against the boys in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas as a three-year-old.
Catchy was raced by Robert Crabtree, who bred Floozie, and who could become one of the most valuable mares in racing with a Group 1 win next to her name.
Floozie, who started her career in Victoria with Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr, has already significantly bolstered her appeal in her maiden campaign with Gollan, resuming with a two-length win over 1200m in benchmark 70 grade at Eagle Farm on April 19.
She followed up with an even more dominant win in benchmark 78 company over the same course on May 3 before a maiden Black Type win in the following week’s Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast.
Floozie then won the Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes (1400m) on June 14 to announce herself a leading Tattersall’s Tiara chance and entrench herself as the best of Catchy’s progeny to date.
“She’s got a lovely racing style. She’s a beautiful mare,” Gollan said.
“Mares in form, they tend to hold that form and I doubt there’s a mare in any better form than her going into this race on the weekend and we know she’s proven at the distance.
“When James Mitchell rang me about training her, I said that would be great. He said he wanted to try something during the Carnival to try and get some Black Type as her pedigree is so good.
“When I looked at her rating, I thought I’d have to devise something of a plan to get her into a Stakes race, so we ran her in some of those lesser grade races first.
“She had to hit the target pretty much straight away just to get her rating high enough to get her into the Silk Stocking, which was my plan all away and from there I picked my mark quite well in the Group 2.
“I think there’s improvement off her last run, which was five weeks, with no trial, so she’ll be better than she was a fortnight ago on Saturday.”
Catchy’s first foal was Dakota Vroom, a $1.2 million Inglis Easter yearling by I Am Invincible, who had 10 starts for three wins, all in metro midweek grade in New South Wales.
The only other to race is Too Darn Hot three-year-old filly Catonahotinroof, who had six starts for two third placings with Anthony Cummings, who paid $550,000 for her at the 2023 Easter Sale, and has recently joined the Grahame Begg stable.
Catchy has a filly by Pinatubo called Turbocat, who has been retained to race by Crabtree, with Price and Kent Jnr who will soon turn two and a Blue Point filly who is a rising yearling
Catchy was sold in-foal to Capitalist at this year’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale, where she was knocked down to Glenvale Stud for $800,000.
