Breeders' Cup winner Bulletin makes Australian racing debut Saturday

Bulletin, the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint hero, makes his Australian racing debut Saturday.

The 5-year-old son of City Zip is 9-1 on the morning line for the sixth race at Randwick, a six-furlong turf sprint with a 12:20 a.m. EST post time. Tim Clark is listed as jockey for trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

Bulletin last raced last June at Churchill Downs, finishing second in an allowance optional claiming race for former trainer Steve Asmussen and former owners WinStar Farm, China Horse Club and SF Racing. Australian racing database Racenet shows the horse’s new ownership as a conglomerate headed by Newgate Stud Farm and China Horse Club.

Bulletin posted a career record of 9: 3-1-1 racing in North America with more than $700,000 in earnings. In his second career start, he went gate-to-wire at Churchill Downs under jockey Javier Castellano to take the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint for former trainer Todd Pletcher.

After Bulletin started his career 3-for-3, he has lost his last six starts. His only graded stakes start ­(the first Juvenile Turf Sprint was ungraded) was a fifth-place finish in September 2019 at Parx Racing in the Gallant Bob Stakes (G2).

Waterhouse, Bulletin’s new co-trainer, said that introducing the horse to racing in the Southern Hemisphere was like “getting the horse from Mars.”

"I once had a very famous trainer say to me 'You don't ask much about the horse', and I said, 'Well it's like an upside-down cake, what you did in the northern hemisphere doesn't count in Australia,” Waterhouse told The Sydney Morning Herald. "The climate and the conditions of racing and everything about it is so dramatically different.”