Resolute’s Tutta La Vita set for Churchill Downs comeback

Three-time Group 1-placed Australian mare Tutta La Vita will make her long-awaited return to racing in the United States this weekend.

By The Autumn Sun, Tutta La Vita will make her comeback at Churchill Downs on Sunday for her new trainer, Michael Maker, having raced twice earlier this year at Gulfstream Park for Ignatio Correas.

Tutta La Vita, who was placed in a Group 1 Vinery Stud stakes, Flight Stakes and Surround Stakes as a three-year-old for Chris Waller, was bought by Resolute Racing’s John Stewart for $3.2 million at the 2024 Inglis Chairman’s Sale and later exported to North America.

The now five-year-old (to southern hemisphere time), who ran fourth and second at her only two starts in the US in non-stakes races, is earmarked to run in a US$127,000 fillies and mares mile race on turf with Tyler Gaffalione in the saddle.

Tutta La Vita’s half-brother by Too Darn Hot was purchased at the Inglis Easter Sale in April by trainers Annabel and Rob Archibald, in conjunction with agent Will Johnson, for $480,000 from the Arrowfield Stud draft.