Group 1 placegetter Kuroyanagi ramping up Adelaide Autumn campaign

Group 1 placegetter Kuroyanagi is back in work and has some black-type goals during the Adelaide autumn racing carnival.

Kuroyanagi will be chasing a black-type win during the Adelaide carnival. Picture: Morgan Hancock/Racing Photos via Getty Images

Group 1 placegetter Kuroyanagi is back in work and eyeing a return to the racetrack for the Adelaide autumn racing carnival.

The daughter of Written Tycoon, who finished third in the 2024 Blue Diamond Stakes, finished a distant last in The TAB Vanity at Flemington in November.

Resuming trackwork after a good spell, the three-year-old, trained by Will Clarken and Niki O’Shea, has black-type ambitions this autumn, with a Listed race and a Group 2 feature circled on the calendar.

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The talented filly has already been stakes-placed on three occasions across her seven-start career.

“She had a good break after the Vanity run, she went a bit of 14s on Tuesday (Feb 4),” racing manager Lachlan Weekley said.

“She’ll be having a strong bit of work this week, and we’ll gear her toward the Redelva Stakes (April 12) and the Tobin Bronze Stakes (April 26).

“If we can get another length or so out of her, she would be right up to those sort of races.

“She’s not a stakes winner as we speak, that would be the ultimate goal, she’s obviously Group 1 placed, it would be nice to win a stakes race over our carnival.”

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Kuroyanagi won over 1200m at Caulfield last campaign, before dropping out sharply when the race heated up at her first 1400m attempt in The TAB Vanity.

The filly came through the run with no concerns, and Weekley believes she’ll be aimed to the sharper sprint races going forward.

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“She went to the 1400m and got the race all wrong, she just pulled far too hard,” he said.

“Jamie (Melham) said she overdid it far too much within herself, that really exasperated the margin, thankfully she pulled up quite okay from that.

“She was in need of a good break anyway, she just overdid it and pulled herself into the ground unfortunately – I’d suggest we’ll keep her to the shorter ones.

“She looks great, she’s furnished that little bit more and it will be an interesting next 5-6 weeks.”

Originally published as Group 1 placegetter Kuroyanagi ramping up Adelaide Autumn campaign