Race Record
Every career win, plus every Group placing — with margins and jockeys
Career Wins (13)
Group Race Placings — 2nd & 3rd (11)
Pride of Jenni struggled to find her best form under earlier trainers, but a move to Ciaron Maher's stable in 2022 transformed her into one of Australia's most exciting frontrunners. Her breakout came during the 2023 Melbourne Cup Carnival, when she won the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes and Group 1 Kennedy Champions Mile within a single week at Flemington — a result that stunned the racing world.
In April 2024, her victory in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick became the stuff of legend: she led by as many as 38 lengths at one stage of the 2000m race, a display so dominant it was compared to Secretariat's iconic Belmont Stakes win and catapulted her to equal #2 in the world rankings.
That extraordinary spring of 2024 ended with the news no fan wanted to hear. After bleeding when unplaced in the Group 1 Champions Mile, connections announced her retirement, with Tony Ottobre crediting her for giving the family more than they could have dreamed of. But the break didn't last. Pride of Jenni returned to work with Ciaron Maher in early 2025, and resumed racing with a gutsy front-running win in the Group 2 Peter Young Stakes at Caulfield in March — her ninth career win, with jockey Craig Newitt given the ride for the reigning Australian Horse of the Year.
The comeback kept building through 2025. A second Ladbrokes Feehan Stakes win in September set up another shot at Flemington, and in November she delivered one of the most remarkable results of her career: a repeat win in the TAB Empire Rose Stakes, two years after her first. It made her the first horse in 35 years to win the same Group 1 Derby Day race in different years, and pushed her career prizemoney past $11.4 million. She added the Listed Anniversary Vase to her tally the same campaign.
Pride of Jenni carried that form into 2026, going on to narrowly miss victory in the TAB Australian Cup in one of the closest finishes seen in the race's history. She then travelled to the Gold Coast, where she added a 13th career win in the Group 2 TAB A.D. Hollindale Stakes in May.
With Tony Ottobre remaining firm in his view that he'll "race her until she doesn't want to race anymore," the story of Pride of Jenni continues to unfold.