Kentucky-bred Con Te Partiro takes down Group 1 Legacy Stakes at Royal Randwick

Con Te Partiro, a stakes winner at Saratoga and Royal Ascot in 2016 and 2017 for trainer Wesley Ward, won her third stakes in Australia on Saturday in the Group 1 Legacy Stakes for fillies and mares at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney.

Con Te Partiro (who paid $14.30 in North American betting pools) won the $623,000 Legacy Stakes at a mile by 1 3/4 lengths over favored Funstar in a field of 14. This was the second Group 1 win of the year for Con Te Partiro, a 6-year-old Kentucy-bred mare by Scat Daddy. In March, Con Te Partiro won the Group 1 Coolmore Classic for fillies and mares at 7 1/2 furlongs at Rosehill Gardens.

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Bott told Australian media that Con Te Partiro may be retired to be bred. She was bred last year but was not pronounced in foal.

Jockey Tim Clark rode Con Te Partiro in the Legacy Stakes, the last of four Group 1 stakes on a stellar program at Randwick.

Addeybb won his second consecutive Group 1 race in Australia in the $1.24 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes at 1 1/4 miles for British trainer William Haggas and jockey Tom Marquand. Addeybb ($7.40) stalked the pace to the final quarter-mile, winning by 2 3/4 lengths over Verry Elleegant, a 4-year-old Southern Hemisphere filly who won the Group 1 Tancred Stakes at 1 1/2 miles at Rosehill Gardens on March 28.

Danon Premium, a five-time stakes winner in Japan, finished third in the field of 12.

Addeybb, a 6-year-old Irish-bred gelding by Pivotal, won his Australian debut in the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes at 1 1/4 miles at Rosehill Gardens on March 21. In 2019, Addeybb won the Wolferton Stakes at Royal Ascot and was second in the Group 1 Champion Stakes at Ascot last October.

Earlier on the program, Colette ($5.50) won her fourth consecutive race in her Grade 1 debut in the $311,500 Australian Oaks at 1 1/2 miles for 3-year-old Southern Hemisphere fillies. Ridden by Glen Boss for trainer James Cummings, Colette closed from a stalking position in a field of 14 to win by 2 3/4 lengths over the outsider Toffee Tongue.

Cummings is the grandson of the late legendary Australian trainer, Bart Cummings, who won the Melbourne Cup a record 12 times.

Etah James ($30) provided the biggest surprise of the Group 1 races by winning her richest race in the $623,000 Sydney Cup against males at two miles. Ridden by Boss for trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Etah James, a 7-year-old New Zealand-bred mare, finished a head in front of the longshot The Chosen One in a field of 12.

Etah James has won three stakes, two at the group level.