World’s best to partner Diademe

9 April 2015

Crack international jockey Ryan Moore will team up with a WS graduate on day two of The Championships at Randwick this Saturday.

The champion English rider has been booked for the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-prepared Diademe in the $A1 million Gr.1 Queen of the Turf Stakes.

Moore, who has ridden Group One winners in 11 countries, was a star turn during the Melbourne spring carnival when he claimed the Cox Plate-Melbourne Cup double with Adelaide and Protectionist.

He is in Sydney to continue his association with Adelaide in the $A4 million Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Baker booked Moore through Coolmore’s racing manager James Bester.

“Most of the Australian riders were taken so I asked James and we were lucky enough to get him,” he said.

Savabeel’s last-start Gr.1 NZ Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes winner Diademe will fly to Sydney this evening with stablemate and Te Aroha runner-up Sports Illustrated, who is raced by WS.

The Fast ‘N’ Famous mare will be partnered by Opie Bosson, who opened The Championships on a glorious note for the stable with a masterly winning ride on Mongolian Khan in the Gr.1 ATC Derby.

The $A200,000 Gr.3 Dark Jewel Classic at Scone on May 16 is also being considered for Diademe, who is owned by Scott Richardson, and Sports Illustrated.

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Twenty-four hours following the final WS Cox Plate meeting run on the Moonee Valley track of old before it shuts for two years to make way for a new precinct, the race’s 2004 winner, Savabeel, continued his roll of runners, and this time it was via five-year-old On The Lash (ex Candelabra) at Sha Tin.