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Four-week Group 1 attack by Cambridge Stud Owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay.
Cambridge Stud owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay will be in Melbourne on Saturday to watch Letzbeglam (Snitzel) run in the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at Caulfield whilst in New Zealand, Vernazza (More Than Ready) will be running in the Matamata Breeders Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m).
A week later the couple will be in Sydney watching their dual Karaka Million winner Probabeel (Savabeel) resume her Australian three-year-old season in the Surround Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Randwick, then their Group One attention will swing back to New Zealand the following week with Vernazza and Taroni (Showcasing) hopefuls for the Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at Ellerslie.
To cap it all off a week later they are hoping to have Meghan (So You Think) in the New Zealand Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) at Trentham.
"To think we could have horses running in Group One races for the next four weeks," Brendan Lindsay said. "It's pretty exciting stuff."
Letzbeglam was bought by the Lindsays under their Cambridge Stud banner for $280,000 from the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. She is a sister to the stakes-placed gelding Snazz 'n' Charm being out of the winning Forestry (Storm Cat) mare Miss Charming. Her second dam is Grade 3 winner Charm A Gendarme (Batonnier), dam of 11 winners including dual Grade 1 winner Tout Charmant (Slewvescent) who produced stakes winning pair Dancing House (Tapit) and Too Charming (Bernardini).
Trained by Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, Letzbeglam is unbeaten in her two career starts to date having won on debut at Werribee before taking out the Blue Diamond Prelude (F) (Gr 2, 1100m) by two and a quarter lengths earlier this month. She is currently third favourite for Saturday's Group 1 race.
"When you buy these horses you don't think of races like this," Lindsay said.
"It's proved to be a fantastic result to even have a runner in the Blue Diamond and she's got to be a good chance the way she won last start.
"It's also great to have Trent and Natalie training her for us. To think when I was young I used to back horses trained by Trent's father (Paddy) and now all these years later Trent is training a Group Two winner for us. Good on them both. They've got there the hard way and I couldn't be happier for them."
Vernazza followed a debut third at Matamata in December with a win at Ellerslie last month when beating a host of youngsters who went on to contest the Karaka Million 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m).
Last Thursday the Lindsay's private trainer, Lance Noble, took Vernazza from Karaka to Matamata for a hit-out with stablemate A Proper Lady (I Am Invincible) and both he and rider Leith Innes were very happy with the filly's work.
Innes however incurred a seven-day suspension at Ellerslie last Saturday and Michael Coleman has picked up the Matamata Breeders' Stakes ride on Vernazza.
"We're happy to get Michael and he agreed to come up to ride her in work (on Tuesday morning)," Lindsay said.
"Lance is happy with her, but the only thing that could stop her on Saturday is that she is still immature."
While the Lindsays are hoping Vernazza shows enough to press on for the Sistema Stakes a fortnight later, they are thrilled with the way the Jamie Richards-trained Probabeel shaped up when finishing on strongly for fifth in a Group and Listed heat over 1000 metres at Randwick on Monday.
And when Probabeel lines up in the Surround Stakes on Saturday week, the Lindsays will have a strong contingent in action on New Zealand Derby day at Ellerslie.
As well as possibly Vernazza and Taroni, a winner and last-start Karaka Million 2YO Classic third, in the Sistema Stakes, their representation will also include Pretty To Sea (Ocean Park), Avadane (Savabeel) and Familia (Makfi), Meghan and Dance Card (Savabeel).
