Globe (NZ) Confirms Comeback in Cranbourne Cup

Karaka graduate Globe (NZ) (Charm Spirit) has been through some tough times since he appeared to have the world at his feet a year and a half ago, but a brilliant front-running win in Saturday’s A$500,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m) suggested the six-year-old is back in business.

Globe was passed in at the 2019 Karaka May Sale with a reserve of only $20,000, then was bought for $22,000 from Book 2 of Karaka 2020. He has now had nine starts for five wins and a placing, earning A$506,250 in stakes for an ownership group headed by Roll The Dice Racing.

A trial winner in New Zealand before crossing the Tasman, Globe made a sensational start to his Australian career with wins in all of his first four races between March and May of 2023. But he finished a distant last in the Group Two Feehan Stakes (1600m) in September of that year and was found to have suffered atrial fibrillation.

The next appearance in Globe’s stop-start career was a fourth in the Group Three Victoria Handicap (1600m) in April, and then he was off the scene again until October. His latest comeback showed promising signs with a fourth in the Group Three Moonga Stakes (1400m) and a second in the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1600m), and Saturday’s Cranbourne Cup marked the return of the real Globe.

Ridden by Ethan Brown for trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr, Globe dominated the race from the front and began to increase the pressure a long way out. He rounded the home turn and kept finding more and more down the straight, holding on doggedly to score a tough and impressive win.

“In his work the other day, I felt he'd improved since the Chester Manifold,” Brown said. “He proved me right with the way he dealt with things today. It was a hot day, which could have easily brought him undone, but he kept his cool.

“We established such a beautiful lead. He pricked his ears. I knew I was on a fit horse, so I wanted to up the tempo a long way out and try and break them, and that’s what happened. He'll improve again out of this run. I'm confident he'll get back to where they thought he was heading before he got injured.”

Price was pleased to secure such a lucrative win for Globe’s patient owners.

“This is fantastic for the owners,” Price said. “We took a big punt on this race. He’s a 17-hand horse trying to get around the tight Cranbourne track, where I have my worst strike rate.

“I think bringing him here on Tuesday was a good idea, because he is a high-nervous-energy horse and he did belt out a bit of energy on Tuesday morning. The kid (Brown) did a good job on him.

“The horse was in good nervous order. His wheels weren't fizzing around his head, which they can. I think the more racing he does, the better he'll be.”

Vendor	Cambria Park
Purchaser	Mr J Naito (Japan)
Breeding	Charm Spirit – Bonnie Doon
Sale	Lot 128, 2019 Karaka May Sale, Psd (Res $20,000)Lot 1016, Karaka 2020 Book 2, $22,000
Bred by	B Donoghue