Tatt’s Tiara: Annabel Neasham has nothing to lose with Mizzy

Annabel Neasham feels she has been given a free hit to try to win a Group 1 to top off Mizzy’s stellar career in the Tatt’s Tiara at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Two-time Group 1 runner-up Mizzy is new to Neasham’s stable, having previously been with Anthony Cummings.

The tilt at Saturday’s $600,000 Tatt’s Tiara is set to be Mizzy’s first and last run for Neasham.

Mizzy is bound for the breeding barn but Neasham feels if the five-year-old mare can recapture her best form, which has seen her runner-up in two Group 1s and fourth in another two, then she is in the Tatt’s Tiara “up to her ears”.

Mizzy’s last run was disappointing when she was beaten a long way in the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes in Adelaide on May 1.

But Neasham has seen only good things since Mizzy arrived in Queensland as part of the Sydney trainer’s winter carnival team.

Neasham has already collected a winter carnival Group 1 with Zaaki in the Doomben Cup and hopes Mizzy can deliver her another on Saturday.

Mizzy (right) finished a close second to Savatiano in the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes in March. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images

“I’d say on her best form she is right in this,” Neasham said.

“We have got a team up in Queensland and they have been running well, so it made sense to slot her into our system up there.

“She has just been an absolute delight.

“She jumped out at the Sunshine Coast last week, I went up there and was really pleased with what I saw, she was very forward and has got good gate speed.

“She worked last Saturday at Doomben and then she worked on the course proper at Eagle Farm on Tuesday morning and Ryan Wiggins rode her and was delighted with her.

“She will go to stud, this is one last run and a chance at a Group 1 because she has got everything on her CV including two runner-up finishes in Group 1s and she has won a couple of Group 2s.

“There’s not really any huge pressure, either way whether she wins or whether she doesn’t she is going to go to stud with huge credentials but the one thing missing off her CV is a Group 1 win.”

Neasham feels the Tatt’s Tiara is a “perfect” assignment for Mizzy’s farewell to racing, saying the 1400m is the mare’s ideal distance.”

Originally published asNeasham has nothing to lose with Mizzy

Source: Read Full Article