FREEZING – BUT CHELTENHAM LOOKS LIKELY CARRY ON GARY!

International golf legend Gary Player could have a Gr1 contender in Australia after Thursday's Blue Diamond Preview at Sandown.

Player won nine majors in an illustrious career that included 159 tournament victories around the world, leading him to become an inaugural member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

While Player was consistently notching tournament successes, he also built his own stud farm, Gary Player Stud, halfway between Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Player's stock won more than 2000 races, including Grade 1 wins in the US, before he sold his stud in 2016, keeping a small band of broodmares in his homeland.

Player is a part-owner of twoyear-old colt Altruist, who is by Snitzel out of the multiple South African Group 1 winner Carry On Alice.

Carry On Alice's breeder, South African operation Klawervlei Stud, are also partowners of Altruist along with local syndicator OTI Racing.