Venetian Sun aiming to shine again in Moyglare Stud Stakes

After a 21-1 treble on Saturday, owners Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy will be dreaming of more success when their star filly Venetian Sun heads to Ireland for the Moyglare Stud Stakes on Sunday.

The unbeaten Prix Morny winner is the apple of trainer Karl Burke’s eye and will now attempt to set up dreams of 1000 Guineas glory next season when she ends her current campaign by testing the waters at seven furlongs in a race the Spigot Lodge handler won with Fallen Angel in 2023.

“We’re enjoying the journey and from day one Karl has never hidden how highly he rates her,” said Sean Graham, who is Bloom’s racing manager.

“The Moyglare will tell us where we are with her and tells us whether we should be going the Guineas route or whether we drop back and go sprinting next year. We will learn an awful lot.”

Venetian Sun has excelled since debuting at Carlisle earlier in the summer, following in the footsteps of Burke’s Dandalla by winning the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot and Newmarket’s Duchess of Cambridge Stakes before defeating a high-class field of colts at Deauville in the Morny.

It has been an enjoyable run for her owners, who have travelled far and wide to watch the daughter of Starman in action and are now relishing a trip to County Kildare for the next stage of her excellent two-year-old season.

“Myself and one of Tony’s friends actually got the train all the way up to Carlisle for her debut,” explained Graham.

“It was a seven-hour round trip on the train, but Karl was adamant she was working well and adamant she was a stakes filly.

“She won well first time out and we thought ‘OK that’s great’ and then in the run up to Royal Ascot her work was just phenomenal. She was working with older, proper sprinters and they just couldn’t get her off the bridle at home and Karl was going into Royal Ascot pretty confident.

“A couple of his others disappointed at the meeting and we got drawn in trap one for the Albany.

“The results the previous day would have told you she had no chance from that draw and you had to be drawn high. We thought we’d try to get some cover but we got no cover and she was wide on the outside on lightning fast ground with Karl thinking she might need a drop of juice in the ground.

“You would have thought there was no way she would win, but the performance was brilliant and she only lost four kilograms in that run, which was why we ran her at Newmarket in July and the form again looks well with the filly in second winning the Lowther.

“The form of the Albany is also very strong and after she beat the colts in the Morny and got a Group One to her name, we always hoped to run in the Moyglare.”