[2] Bought by trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood for $625,000 at the 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale at Karaka,[3] Orchestral is raced by long-time stable clients Colin and Helen Litt.
[5] Orchestral won at Hastings in her only other two-year-old start, then returned there for her three-year-old debut but finished outside the placings in the Group Three Gold Trail Stakes.
[6] James and Wellwood put the filly aside until December, when she returned to action with a close second in the Group Three Bonecrusher Stakes.
[8] She lived up to those high expectations with a dominant performance, recording the largest winning margin since C'est La Guerre in 2008.
[9] Ridden by Craig Grylls, Orchestral was slow to leave the starting gates and settled towards the rear of the field, but she swooped around the outside at the home turn and quickly took command in the straight.