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Joliestar makes it five G1s as Inglis grads dominate

4th Apr 2026

Mighty mare Joliestar (Zoustar) won a fifth career G1 and cemented herself a Royal Ascot trip with a typically tough performance in today’s G1 TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick.

On an unbelievable day of racing Australia-wide, Joliestar was one of 10 Inglis graduates to win a Stakes race.

The Chris Waller-trained Joliestar has had a faultless preparation, with today’s G1 coming after her last-start victory in the G1 Canterbury Stakes and a G2 win first-up, completing an undefeated autumn.

The 5YO will next run at Royal Ascot in the G1 King’s Stand Stakes on June 16.

Sir Brendan and Lady Jo Lindsay of Cambridge Stud purchased the Chris and Jane Barham-bred Joliestar (pictured) for $950,000 at the Easter Yearling Sale, where she was offered by Segenhoe Stud.

She has now won 10 of her 21 career starts for almost $9m in prizemoney.

The 5YO mare is one of 117 G1-winning Inglis graduates since 2018.

“Five Group 1s, what do you say? She’s a champion,’’ Sir Brendan Lindsay said.

“They just give you so much thrill, horses like this, and Jo and I are just so lucky to have her in the right stable with the right jockey.

“It’s a dream come true, to take a horse from Australia to race against the world’s best at Royal Ascot, gosh, what a thrill.

“We’re lucky enough to have a chance to be able to get there and while most people dream about it, we’ll just have a lot of sleepless nights worrying about it.’’

Winning trainer Waller added: “A lot of thought has gone into it, well before today, we just needed her to run well today and cement her place on the flight [to Ascot].

“She’s only run in the best races, from her 3YO days and she’s been a model of consistency since. From this preparation to last prep, she’s overcome luck in running, better speed, better tracks, her maturity and confidence has gone to a new level.’’

Earlier at Randwick untapped filly Blue Door (Stay Inside) debuted in the strongest way possible, winning the G3 Kindergarten Stakes.

The Bjorn Baker-trained 2YO (ex Notting Hill) is raced by John Singleton, who was trackside at Randwick today to enjoy the victory and explained how the filly got her name.

“My daughter Jessie lives in Notting Hill and all the doors on her street are blue,’’ Singleton said.

“So what did I do when I was over there? I arranged for her door to be painted red one day when she was at work. She came home and was mortified, suspected it was me and before long we had the authorities there and the heritage people demanding the door be painted blue again, so we did.

“More importantly, she looks a really nice filly, we might have some fun with her.’’

Bred by Armitage Australia, Blue Door is a $400,000 Easter Yearling Sale buy for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott with Kestrel Thoroughbreds’ Bruce Slade, from the Yarraman Park draft.

Classic Sale filly Profoundly (Farnan) will back up in next Saturday’s G1 ATC Oaks following her demanding victory in today’s final lead-up, the G3 Adrian Knox Stakes at Randwick.

The 3YO filly is now a three-time winner from 10 starts and such was the authority of today’s victory, Profoundly firmed into a $4.50 second favourite with Ladbrokes for the Oaks, to be run at Randwick in seven days’ time.

Lee Freedman bought the Ayliffe Caldwell-bred Profoundly for $65,000 at the Classic Yearling Sale, where she was offered by Sledmere Stud.

She is trained by Lee’s brother Michael.

“I bought her when I was still training for $65,000 and she’s a really nice filly, which she showed again today,’’ Lee Freedman said.

“I was really happy with the Kembla run last time out and I was confident the form out of that race would hold up. I knew she had improvement to come and we’d never run her over 2000m but all she wanted to do was get over a trip.’’

When asked if Profoundly would back up next week, Michael Freedman added: “Why wouldn’t you? She ran out a strong 2000m and it’s great to see her win in the family colours too.’’

Later on the Randwick program Plaintiff (Zoustar) kept her unbeaten record alive, winning the G3 PJ Bell Stakes to make it four career starts for four career wins.

The Peter Snowden-trained 3YO was resuming today and had the outside barrier in gate 20 but it mattered little, storming home late to win again.

The filly is a $2.2m Easter Yearling Sale purchase for James Harron – on behalf of her owner John Camilleri – from the draft of Widden, who bred the filly with Murray and Sue Murdoch, Scott and Julie Gibson, Ken Warriner and Ron Hamer

“She was just an incredible specimen, I took John down to see her at Easter and when he saw her he just said ‘yep, she’s something we just have to have’,’’ Harron said.

“John likes collectors’ items, he’s got an amazing broodmare band and when he adds to the broodmare band, he wants something special and she’s very special.

“She’s unbeaten, it’s quite incredible. You invest in quality, she’s got a beautiful pedigree, an amazing demeanour and attitude and the sky’s the limit with her.’’

And Albury trainer Kym Davison celebrated his first metropolitan winner when Autumn Break (The Autumn Sun) won the G3 Carbine Club Stakes at Randwick.

The 3YO was an emergency for the $1m Country Championships Final but was unable to gain a start, so Davison decided that instead of wasting the trip to Sydney, he’d run his stable star in the Carbine Club.

“We were obviously hoping to be in the other race but this is a great consolation,’’ Davison said.

“The horse is bred to run 2000m so we’d been keeping him fresh for the 1400m of the Country Championships and when we didn’t qualify, I saw this race and thought we’d have a throw at the stumps.

“It was a perfect ride, Sam (Clipperton) produced him at the right time and it was a great win.’’

Davison bought Autumn Break – now a four-time winner from just seven starts – for $40,000 at the Classic Yearling Sale, where he was offered in the draft of his breeder Arrowfield Stud.

Meanwhile at Caulfield today in-form 5YO Ambassadorial (Fiorente) made it three wins in a row – and a first career Stakes win – with victory in the G3 Easter Cup.

Trained by Tony and Calvin McEvoy, Ambassadorial is now a six-time overall winner of almost $550,000 in prizemoney, a huge return on investment for owners Jane Chapple-Hyam and Ann Peacock after Chapple-Hyam purchased him for just $22,500 at the Premier Yearling Sale from the Widden draft.

Ambassadorial is bred by Sun Bloodstock.

And Hughes (Russian Revolution) backed up his Echuca Cup win with a tough victory in today’s G3 Victoria Handicap.

Today’s win was the ninth of Hughes’ career and took his earnings to $582,000.

Jeremy Rogers and Roll The Dice Racing teamed up to buy Hughes for $140,000 at the Premier Yearling Sale, where he was offered by Sledmere Stud.

Bred by China Horse Club, Hughes is trained by Gavin Bedggood.

In Perth tonight brilliant filly Aurum Belle (Snitzel) made it three wins from as many starts with a hard-fought victory in the G3 Gimcrack Stakes at Ascot.

The 2YO is a $725,000 Easter Yearling Sale purchase for trainer Neville Parnham and Ridgeport’s Santo Guagliardo, from the draft of The Chase.

She is bred by China Horse Club and Go Bloodstock.

And at the annual Oakbank carnival in South Australia Zoupurring (Zoustar) led in an Inglis graduates’ quinella in the feature race – the Listed Railway Stakes – defeating Great Maximus.

Trained by Michael Hickmott, the Tara Farm-bred Zoupurring is a $100,000 Premier Yearling Sale buy for Bennett Racing from Rosemont.