There were more lengths between Pride Of Jenni and the rest of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes field on Saturday than there have been yearlings sold by her sire Pride Of Dubai so far in 2024.
The extraordinary victory of the Ciaron Maher-trained mare on Saturday will live long in Australia’s racing memory. This six-year-old and her jockey Declan Bates sat nearly 40 lengths clear at one point of the $5 million race, eventually triumphing by 6-1/2 lengths in a contest that was over as far as 1000 metres out.
It is a spectacle that drew inspired reactions from racing fans around the world. The only dissenters as to the spectacle were rival trainers and jockeys, who lamented ‘missing the boat’, despite the evidence that the jet-powered Pride of Jenni had made the rest of the field look like paddle steamers.
But in a week where we saw a yearling filly that shared some lineage with Pride Of Jenni fetch a previously unfathomable $10 million, it’s clear that the beaten riders in the Queen Elizabeth haven’t been the only ones missing the boat with the Pride Of Jenni story.
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