Things didn’t go to plan in the 1999 Golden Slipper for raging pre-post favourite Redoute’s Choice, but Yulong is hoping for better luck with the champion stallion’s great grandson Devil Night, the first colt to win a Blue Diamond at his second start this century.
Twenty-six years ago, Redoute’s Choice was a raging hot favourite for the Golden Slipper.
The powerfully built Danehill colt had won a Chairman's Stakes and backed up a week later to win the Group 1 Blue Diamond at just his second start, and doing so he scored the first of multiple enthralling victories over his would-be racetrack sparring partner Testa Rossa.
Ahead of the Golden Slipper of 1999 and the late Rick Hore-Lacy’s Redoute’s Choice was in the red at 10/9 on (that’s $1.90 in the not-so-new decimal age) when the most ill-timed and unfortunate elevated temperature struck down the looming champion on race morning.
His wily and fearless punting trainer was left with no option but to scratch Redoute’s Choice from a probable $1.5 million Rosehill windfall.
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