Broadsiding Joins The Elite - So Who Are They?

Tara Madgwick - Sunday September 29

Broadsiding put himself in elite company when winning the Group I ATC Golden Rose on Saturday as a multiple Group I winning juvenile to train on and win again at the elite level at three, so who are these history makers that he now stands beside?

Broadsiding has put his name up with some of the greats - image Steve Hart

The media love to seize on the phenomenon of star juveniles that don’t train on, but that’s not always the case and over the past 40 years there have been some remarkable two year-olds that have remained remarkable at three.

There were 222 horses in total during the past 40 years that won at G1 level at two in that time bearing in mind we had more juvenile G1 races back in the day. The QTC Sires Produce was downgraded to G2 in 2006 and the VRC Sires Produce Stakes in 2005, while the WATC Karrakatta Plate was downgraded in 1999 after being elevated to G1 in 1985.

Of those juvenile G1 winners in the past 40 years, only 33 were multiple G1 2YO winners and the horses below are those that won two or more G1 races at two and then came out to win at G1 level at three as Broadsiding has done.

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Interestingly in the list below, the Darley / Godolphin breeding operation in Australia accounts for five of these superstar horses – Sepoy, Helmet, Guelph, Broadsiding and Pierro, who was famously sold as a weanling and did his racing for Gai Waterhouse before retiring to stud at Coolmore where he is still on the roster at a fee of $55,000.

List of horses that won two or more G1 races at 2 and won at least one  G1 at 3 - last 40 years.

Foaling Year

Horse

Sire

G1 2YO

G1 3YO

1983

Bounding Away

Biscay

Golden Slipper, Blue Diamond, Champagne

AJC Oaks, Flight Stakes, Orlando Classic

1984

Flotilla

Dalmacia

QTC Sires Produce, Castlemaine Stakes

Australian Guineas

1985

Zeditave

The Judge

Blue Diamond, QTC Channel Nine Stakes

William Reid Stakes, Lighting Stakes, Futurity

1989

Slight Chance

Centaine

QTC Sires Produce, Castlemaine Stakes

VRC Oaks, Queensland Oaks, Flight Stakes, Ansett Australia Stakes

1990

Mahogany

Last Tycoon (IRE)

QTC Sires Produce, Castlemaine Stakes

Caulfield Guineas, VRC Derby, Australian Guineas, AJC Derby

1994

Encounter

Tierce

Sires Produce, Champagne

Caulfield Guineas, George Main Stakes, Chipping Norton Stakes, Futurity Stakes

1995

Dracula

Quest for Fame (GB)

Champagne, QTC Sires Produce

George Main Stakes

1997

Assertive Lad

Zeditave

Sires Produce, Champagne

Doncaster Handicap

1998

Viscount

Quest for Fame (GB)

Sires Produce, Champagne

George Main Stakes

2008

Sepoy

Elusive Quality (USA)

Golden Slipper, Blue Diamond

Manikato Stakes, Coolmore Stud Stakes

2008

Helmet

Exceed and Excel

Sires Produce, Champagne

Caulfield Guineas

2009

Pierro

Lonhro

Golden Slipper, Sires Produce, Champagne

Canterbury Stakes, George Ryder Stakes

2010

Guelph

Exceed and Excel

Sires Produce, Champagne

Flight Stakes, Thousand Guineas

2020

Militarize

Dundeel

Sires Produce, Champagne

Golden Rose

2021

Broadsiding

Too Darn Hot (GB)

Champagne,

JJ Atkins

Golden Rose

Footnote: If you, like me are thinking, hang on, didn’t Gai’s Triple Crown winner Dance Hero go on and win a G1, you would be right, he did, but not as a three year-old. He won the G1 VRC Salinger Stakes at four.

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