Natalie Young is a multiple group 1-winning trainer with a bucket list. She has ticked off Royal Ascot, the Kentucky Derby and even the Darwin Cup. Natalie Young has two group 1 runners at Caulfield on Saturday – Vianarra and Craig.
Credit: Racing Photos Next on her radar is Japan. And if that doesn’t work, she will settle for Broome. She loves the little cups.
The main thing, though, is to keep busy. “If having breast cancer teaches you anything, it is that life is short,” she says. Young is sitting in Freddie’s Kitchen, a coffee shop in Carrum on the edge of Port Phillip Bay.
She has just arrived from her morning shift at the Cranbourne stables she runs with partner and father of her two children, Trent Busuttin. Wearing black activewear and a black zip-up vest, she has a thick Kiwi accent and her eyes are a piercing blue. This is Young’s favourite time of year.
She calls the spring carnival racing’s version of the Olympics, and she is dreaming of more success. “I really want to win a Guineas,” she says. “A Guineas, a Cox Plate and obviously a Melbourne Cup.
” Young trains with her partner Trent Busuttin at Cranbourne. Credit: Getty Images Her first wish will be a monumental task. The stable’s three-year-old colt Vianarra, which has an all-female ownership group, is a rated a 200-1 outsider in the group 1 Caulfield Guineas this Saturday.
They have a greater chance of winning the group 1 Toorak Handicap later in the day with their oddly named UK import.
