Arctic Glamour (AUS)
3 f Frosted – Fartoo Flashy by Galileo
O: Mr M H Wood, Mrs M E Wood, Mr C N Allen, Mr C Moore, Ms T L Arnott, Mrs K S Cowell, Mrs S T Gardiner, Mr D Gardiner, Mr J R M Conroy, Mr K Rice, Mr B D Rice, Mr M Sinclair, Mr N L Pinder, Mrs C A Pinder, Better Win, Mr J W Fleeting, Mr A M Pinder, Mrs K L Pinder, Mr R W McClymont
B: The Toorak Thoroughbred Breeding Trust
T: Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou
S: 2022 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale V: Noorilim Park P: Ryan & Alexiou Racing, $185,000
W: TAB We’re On Maiden Handicap, 1200m, September 27, Rosehill
The Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou-trained Arctic Glamour (Frosted) will be given a stakes campaign this spring that will culminate in the Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) after she broke her maiden in impressive fashion at Rosehill Wednesday.
Having placed at Warwick Farm in her first two starts as a juvenile in June, the daughter of Frosted (Tapit) returned from a 13-week absence and was sent off the $2.25 favourite following a trial victory over 900 metres the week before.
Ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, the filly came down the centre of the track inside the final 300 metres and quickly hit the front before streaking four and a quarter lengths clear of the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Mostro (Maurice), with a further length and a quarter back to the Team Hawkes-trained Groundrush (Trapeze Artist) in third.
“She is a filly we have always had a good opinion of,” Ryan said. “Sterling found her at the Melbourne Premier Sale, and I went down a couple of days later, and we bought it.
“Kerrin has a lot of faith in her. After her first two starts, Kerrin said to put her away because she could make a Thousand Guineas horse. That’s what we did, and hopefully, that’s where we end up.
“She will probably go to the James Carr on Everest Day, then we will probably stay here for the Callander-Presnell, then down to The Thousand Guineas.”
A $185,000 buy for Ryan and Alexiou Racing from the draft of Noorilim Park, as agent for Mill Park, at last year’s Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, Arctic Glamour is a half-sister to Chairman’s Stakes (Gr 3, 2030m) winner Waging War (Rebel Raider).
She is the fourth winner from as many to race out of the Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) mare Fartoo Flashy, herself a half-sister to the stakes-placed winner Lagerphone (Fastnet Rock).
Pride Racing went to $180,000 for a So You Think (High Chaparral) half-brother to Arctic Glamour, consigned by Mill Park, at the 2023 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale. Fartoo Flashy foaled an Admire Mars (Daiwa Major) filly on August 9.