Queen of Style one to beat in 16-horse Capricornia Yearling Sale Classic at Callaghan Park

The 2-year-old filly Queen of Style recorded consecutive wins within three weeks last November and December before the warm Australian summer began.

Last month, days before the Southern Hemisphere autumn, Queen of Style was second in a handicap at Callaghan Park in Rockhampton, a prep for Tuesday’s Capricornia Yearling Sale Classic, a sale-progeny race at six furlongs at the same venue.

Queen of Style has raced only at Rockhampton in her four starts. The track is home base for her trainer, Fred Smith.

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Tuesday’s $45,000 Capricornia Yearling Sale Classic is the richest race at four racetracks operating in Australia on Tuesday afternoon, or late evening on Monday and very early Tuesday across American time zones. Wagering is available on DRFBets.com.

Queen of Style is part of a field of 16. Several runners are part of stables based at Rockhampton.

The only other two-time winner in the field is the filly Princess Rules, who won her second career start in a maiden race at Rockhampton in January and won a handicap there in February. Those races were run at 1,050 meters, or about 5 1/4 furlongs.

Trained at Rockhampton by Lyle Wright, Princess Rules was second of four by three-quarters of a length in a six-furlong handicap at Townsville in northwest Australia.

Other contenders in Tuesday’s race are the lightly raced males Courtesy Bus and War Bugle, and the filly Miss Lot Won, who has had seven starts.

Courtesy Bus was fourth in his debut at Rockhampton on Feb. 27 and won a six-furlong maiden race as a stalker at Mackay on March 17.

War Bugle won his debut at Mackay on Feb. 22 and was third in the same race as Queen of Style on March 14.

Miss Lot Won beat maidens in her third start, at Rockhampton, in early November, but has been second, third, fourth, and fifth in her last four starts.