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Larimer Street Up For Sires’ Produce Test

Posted on March 4, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young thought better of succumbing to the temptation of running Larimer Street in Victoria's premier two-year-old race. The colt had the credentials to contest last month's Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield, but the training and life partners thought the wiser move was to wait. On Saturday, Larimer Street lines up[...]

Posted on February 22, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Coming from New Zealand three-and-a-half years ago to set up a stable at Cranbourne, partners Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young were pigeon-holed as trainers of stayers. With a focus on sprinters in Australia, Busuttin and Young set about changing the belief they could only train distance horses by becoming buyers at Australian sales. That decision[...]

Posted on February 19, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

After making the move from New Zealand to set up stables at Cranbourne, training and life partners Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are transforming their business. Before that shift to Victoria three years ago, Busuttin and Young concentrated on the New Zealand sales looking for stayers with the hope of winning a Derby, an Oaks[...]

Posted on February 12, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

A good day at the office could have been even bigger with a slice of luck for former New Zealand trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young. A Sandown double on Wednesday was small consolation for a bigger prize in Sydney that slipped through their grasp. Larimer Street was beaten a length into third place in[...]

Posted on February 8, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jockey Brett Prebble says Letzbeglam has the ability to win Victoria's richest two-year-old race but wonders whether she has the mental capacity. Letzbeglam raced her way into contention for the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) on February 22 with a comprehensive victory in the fillies Prelude (1100m) on Saturday. Jumping from the widest barrier,[...]

Posted on February 7, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Buoyed by the way Group winner Acting has been preparing for her return, co-trainer Natalie Young is expecting a bold showing from the filly in the Kevin Hayes Stakes at Caulfield. Acting won three of her five starts in her first preparation, including the Group Two Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m). She resumes in Saturday's Group[...]

Posted on February 6, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

The lure of a future as a stallion against money offered in a sales-restricted race has contributed to Tagaloa contesting the Blue Diamond Prelude at Caulfield. Connections had to weigh up a start in the Magic Magic Millions 2YO Classic at the Gold Coast last month, or chase victory in the Group One Blue Diamond[...]

Posted on February 5, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Some good luck has finally fallen the way of Larimer Street in the $2 million Inglis Millennium at Warwick Farm with the two-year-old drawing the inside gate. After a delayed trip to Sydney, the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained colt had his final gallop for Saturday's 1100m race on a heavy track at Warwick Farm[...]

Posted on February 5, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Mirage Dancer will take a step back in time when he runs first-up in the Group One CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield. Saturday's race over 1400m will be the first time Mirage Dancer has raced shorter than 2000m since his debut win in the UK in 2016. That two-year-old race at Doncaster was over seven[...]

Posted on January 29, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Debut winner Letzbeglam will be put to the test in the Chairman's Stakes at Caulfield in a race which shapes as another pointer towards the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes. Trained by Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, Letzbeglam raced to a comfortable two-length win in an 1100m maiden for two-year-old fillies at Werribee on January[...]

Posted on January 19, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Caulfield Cup placegetter Mirage Dancer is likely to kick off his second Melbourne campaign in the Group One C F Orr Stakes on his way to the Australian Cup. The well-performed English import arrived in Australia in the spring and finished third in the $5 million Caulfield Cup (2400m) in his first appearance for his[...]

Posted on December 17, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

After a short break following a metropolitan win at The Valley, two-year-old colt Tagaloa has returned to the stables of Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young to embark on a Blue Diamond campaign. Connections opted against pressing towards January's Magic Millions Classic with Tagaloa after his win at The Valley on November 30 and instead the[...]

Posted on December 17, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Group-winning gelding Rising Red is ready to return to the races after his latest lengthy injury absence. The 2017 Group One New Zealand Derby runner-up and 2018 Group Three Premier's Cup winner in Brisbane has been off the scene since last spring because of a suspensory injury He is scheduled to return in Saturday's 1400m-handicap[...]

Posted on December 6, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

With just two metropolitan wins to his name, apprentice Thomas Stockdale is hoping to make the most of a prized opportunity to notch a stakes race success in the Pakenham Cup. Stockdale rides the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Maracaibo in the $300,000 Listed race over 2500 metres on Saturday. Maracaibo gave Stockdale his maiden[...]

Posted on December 1, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable is planning a two-pronged attacked on the last feature staying race of the year in Victoria. Last-start Sandown winner Maracaibo will be joined by Savvy Oak in the Listed Pakenham Cup (2500m) on Saturday. Busuttin said the Pakenham Cup would give the stable an indication whether Maracaibo would[...]

Posted on November 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Co-trainer Trent Busuttin is in a quandary about where to target Tagaloa after the colt scored a gritty win at The Valley. After finishing third on debut at Flemington during Melbourne Cup week, Tagaloa showed the benefit of that experience with victory in the Strath Haven Preston Sprint Plate on Saturday. Sent out the $4.40[...]

Posted on November 10, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Co-trainer Trent Busuttin says he has learned a valuable lesson with imported horse Mirage Dancer following the Melbourne Cup. After Mirage Dancer finished 14th behind Vow And Declare in Tuesday's Cup, Busuttin, who trains in partnership with Natalie Young, came to the conclusion the horse does not run out 3200m. Busuttin wanted to prove the[...]

Larimer Street Up For Sires’ Produce Test

Tagaloa Shines In Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes

Busuttin And Young With Dual Diamond Hopes

Consolation Double For Busuttin And Young

Letzbeglam Emerges As A Blue Diamond Hope

Young Expects Acting To Sprint Well Fresh

Busuttin-Young Chase Diamond Prelude Wins

Larimer Street Set To Strike In Millennium

Orr Stakes First-Up Tilt For Mirage Dancer

Stakes Test Looms For Juvenile Letzbeglam

Orr Stakes Return Likely For Mirage Dancer

Tagaloa On Path Towards Group 1 Blue Diamond

Rising Red, Salsamor To Make Race Returns

Apprentice Aims For Hometown Win In Cup

Busuttin-Young Double Up In Pakenham Cup

Tagaloa Rebounds With A Strong Valley Win

Cup Distance Too Long For Mirage Dancer

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