‘Best horse we’ve had for a while’: Trainers Jim and Greg Lee chasing Randwick victory with Glorious Moments on Saturday

Co-trainer Greg Lee believes Glorious Moments is the best horse his stable has produced at the races in years and reckons his untapped talent can deliver on that high opinion at Randwick.

Co-trainer Greg Lee believes Glorious Moments is the best horse his stable has produced at the races in years and reckons his untapped talent can deliver on that high opinion on home turf at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

Glorious Moments has only raced three times as he nears the end of his three-year-old season but is ready to make up for lost time after injury hampered the early stages of his career.

Lee and his brother Jim thought enough of Glorious Moments to run him in last year’s Group 3 Pago Pago Stakes as a two-year-old but a lingering issue brought the son of Brutal’s career to a halt.

A quarter crack in his hoof forced Glorious Moments to the sidelines for more than a year.

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“The only way that is going to repair is giving them time,” Greg Lee said.

“You do what you can to keep it together but unfortunately it didn’t work out early in his career and he eventually had to go out.

“There were signs coming but you get the blacksmith there and pull it together like a vice but it’s not the same, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

“Put it this way, it’s like you have half your toenail off and you are trying to run with it.”

“That’s the best way to describe how sore it is.”

There were highly-promising signs Glorious Moments had put the issue behind him in the lead-up to his return when he won a trial at Randwick by nine lengths.

He backed up it up in his first race start in 59-weeks with a commanding 1-3/4 length success at Canterbury over 1250m on June 18.

🤩 Glorious moments indeed, as Glorious Moments sails to victory first up after a long break at Canterbury!@aus_turf_clubpic.twitter.com/85T8xqCmUu

— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 18, 2025

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The Lees have elected to space his runs with Glorious Moments set to line up a more than a month between runs in The Agency Real Estate Benchmark 72 Handicap (1300m) with Heavelon Van Der Hoven aboard.

“When they’ve been out that long and you back them up to quick, normally they run bad,” Lee said.

“He won that race first-up but he hadn’t run for a long time but he won easy.

“The gap between runs won’t worry him.”

Glorious Moments is the $4 favourite to make it back it consecutive victories to start his preparation with Stardeel ($4.20), Codetta ($5.50) and Signor Tortoni ($6) helping make up a competitive affair.

Trainer Greg Lee. Picture Gregg Porteous

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Lee expects Glorious Moments will be hard to beat again and is eager to set his sights on stakes racing if everything goes to plan in the coming months.

“I think he is the best horse we’ve had for a long while,” he said.

“I think he will run a mile plus.

“We will get his rating up and if he wins this, then he’s won his two and then we make take him to Melbourne for a stakes race.”

Convergent is another lightly-raced galloper trained by the Lee brothers that they have a lot of time for and predict has a stakes future.

Convergent wins on debut for Jim & Greg Lee with @Reganbayliss in the saddle 💪@aus_turf_clubpic.twitter.com/cjExQDsMw5

— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) April 25, 2025

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The son of Impending has only had two starts, winning his first before finishing runner-up in a 1500m Midway on June 7 at Royal Randwick.

He will return to the races on August 9 at Royal Randwick with the Lees hoping to raise the bar high this spring.

“He’s a good stayer and I think if he comes up you pick out races like the Moonee Valley Cup and The Metropolitan and see if they can do it,” Lee said.

“They do or they let you down and they aren’t good enough.

“What makes him so good is he can sprint but I know he will get over 2000m and plus but the plus is yet to be seen.”

The Lee brothers only have a small team of horses but have been hitting the target this season with a 20 per cent winning strike rate from their past 50 starters.

Originally published as ‘Best horse we’ve had for a while’: Trainers Jim and Greg Lee chasing Randwick victory with Glorious Moments on Saturday