Trainer Brendan McCarthy had some compensation for losing one of his most promising young gallopers when Circle The Globe led throughout for an impressive win at Moonee Valley.
The unraced Sly Stach, a magnificent grey colt by Dash For Cash and a half-brother to McCarthy’s dual stakes-winning sprinter Zedi Knight, had to be put down after being injured.
“He would have picked Zedi Knight up and carried him,” McCarthy said.
“He fractured a back leg about two weeks ago and then he got cast in the box.
“He looked like he was going to be all right until that happened.
“I got a Amadeus Wolf colt out of the mare the other day so that’s something.
“I’m sending her back to Dash For Cash but it’s going to be a late foal.”
Ridden by Danny Nikolic, Circle The Globe ($3.70) was favourite in the shark.com.au Plate (2040m) for maidens, cleared out from her rivals to score by five lengths from Charting with Memphis Man 1-1/4 lengths away third.
“She’s been very consistent,” McCarthy said of the four-year-old who had been placed in four of her seven starts before Sunday’s twilight meeting.
“She’s getting better as she gets over a bit more ground. That was her first start over 2000 metres.”
Nikolic said Circle The Globe was starting to live up to her early promise.
“I liked this mare early doors. I thought she was going to be at least Saturday city class or might even black type grade,” he said.
“She showed a lot, then she went through a stage where she wasn’t clicking and not finding anything and I thought she was very disappointing.
“But we’ve found as we’ve stepped up her training and racing she’s really coming into her own with special thanks to my brother Tommy and his partner Tara.
“They’ve worked very closely with Brendan (McCarthy) with this mare.
“She was a bit of a head case but Tom rides her every morning and he’s got her going really well.
“I think she’s going to stay further which is a big thing when you go to staying races because if they do stick the races get weaker, not stronger.”
Circle The Globe is a half-sister to Siennas Fury who won the 2008 Listed Blue Diamond Fillies Preview (1000m) and was runner-up in the Group Three Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes (1200).
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