With a win in Saturday’s Tattersall’s Tiara, Floozie has the chance to become one of the most valuable mares in the country thanks to her outstanding pedigree and current form.
This Group 1 race, which is the final of the season and restricted to fillies and mares, is expected to add serious value to the winner—and Floozie’s credentials make her one of the top prospects.
The Tony Gollan-trained mare is by leading sire Zoustar and out of former star filly Catchy, who was a Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner and placed in the Caulfield Guineas.
Catchy, who was raced by Robert Crabtree, also bred Floozie, making her victory in a Group 1 race potentially career-defining for her breeding value.
Floozie began her racing career in Victoria before joining Gollan’s stable in Queensland, where she has gone from strength to strength, winning at benchmark 70 and 78 levels, then progressing to claim the Listed Silk Stocking and Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes (1400m).
“She’s got a lovely racing style. She’s a beautiful mare,” said Gollan.
“Mares in form, they tend to hold that form and I doubt there’s a mare in any better form than her going into this race on the weekend and we know she’s proven at the distance.
“When James Mitchell rang me about training her, I said that would be great. He said he wanted to try something during the Carnival to try and get some Black Type as her pedigree is so good.
“When I looked at her rating, I thought I’d have to devise something of a plan to get her into a Stakes race, so we ran her in some of those lesser grade races first.
“She had to hit the target pretty much straight away just to get her rating high enough to get her into the Silk Stocking, which was my plan all away and from there I picked my mark quite well in the Group 2.
“I think there’s improvement off her last run, which was five weeks, with no trial, so she’ll be better than she was a fortnight ago on Saturday.”
Floozie is one of several of Catchy’s progeny, which include Dakota Vroom and Catonah