Three-time stakes winner The Map is set to make a surprise return to racing after she was passed in at the Inglis Chairman’s Broodmare Sale earlier this week.
The daughter of Alpine Eagle was initially retired following an underwhelming performance in the Group 3 Lord Reims Stakes back in February.
However, after failing to meet her $200,000 reserve price in the sale ring, co-trainer Dan Clarken has confirmed that The Map will head back into work under the care of himself and training partner Oopy MacGillivray.
“She’s coming home, we’re going to put her back in work. Oopy and I made that decision,” Clarken said at Morphettville on Saturday.
“We gave her the opportunity to become a broodmare… she got passed in. Oopy and I both went to see her in the sales ring, and we were happy to see her really up and about.
“She really got wired up, and we thought, ‘if she was walking around like an old broodmare, we’d let her go.’
“But when we saw that, and she’s had a good spell up in the Hunter Valley with lots of green grass — when she gets back, she’s going to race like an old gelding.”
