O'Neill: "Freak" horse will win everything it runs in

Regal Ambition was one of the key three-year-old filly’s to note coming out of the 2026 spring carnival heading into the future.

John O’Neill has made another significant call ahead of 2027 – that Regal Ambition will win everything; it will be one of the dominant horses of the next twelve months.

“This horse in the autumn next year and to the spring will win everything it runs in,” O’Neill said.

“Regal Ambition, it is a superstar.”

O’Neill was in awe of its win on Derby Day in the Group 3 Vanity over 1400m, but also its run in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfield two weeks prior.

“The sectionals that it run, its last two furlongs to get back," he said.

“It copped the leader's track at Caulfield, should have won the Thousand Guineas by a furlong.

“It was an extraordinary win (in the Group 3 Vanity), a great ride from Micky Dee.

“Very confident ride from him to go back, and the way he'd unleashed two furlongs out."

O’Neill went further to compare it to one of the best horses in the country.

“It is Sheza Alibi, that's what it is,” said O’Neill

“It'll win the Golden Eagle … back it now.

"It is a freak; I am calling it a freak.”