“Mum answered the ad for this job in Warrnambool and they ended up saying, ‘OK, we will do an overland trip’,” Wilde said. She convinced husband Bill, a dentist with a passion for horse racing, that a trip Down Under might be fun. In the mid-1970s, before Wilde was born, his British mum, Karen, spotted the ad for a physiotherapist … in, of all places, Warrnambool, Australia. Wilde can thank his adventure-seeking parents – and the chance sighting of an ad in a London newspaper – for inadvertently forging his career path. But we’ve never won a Group 1, and if we could do it, it would mean so much to so many people.” (The stable) has won plenty of Group 2s and 3s and listed races. “We’ve been building towards this for a while. Tralee Rose after winning the Geelong Cup. How’s this for a relatively inexpensive storyline, complete with astute shopping from Tralee Rose’s trainer Symon Wilde and his father Bill?īred in New Zealand at Cambridge Stud which has produced seven Melbourne Cup winners bought for only $NZ50,000 by one of the rising stars of Victoria’s training ranks owned by an “eclectic” group including two plumbers, an excavator, a real estate agent, a paramedic and a police sergeant and headed into the race off the back of a Geelong Cup win that took her prizemoney beyond $700,000, with maybe a bigger payday on offer. She might also represent the dreams of all wannabe owners aspiring to have a Cup runner one day without blowing the budget, or spending big bucks on importing one from Europe. The talented five-year-old staying mare, who has never finished further back than fifth in 15 starts, will go into Tuesday’s $8m race carrying the hopes of Victoria’s western district. If the modern Melbourne Cup is all about big dreams backed by increasingly bigger cheque books, Warrnambool-based Tralee Rose provides a welcome change of narrative.

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