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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
If there is any merit to the theory that racing against Pride Of Jenni (Pride of Dubai) takes more out of horses, no galloper has been exposed to potential ill-effects more this year than Mr Brightside (NZ) (Bullbars). The Ben, Will and Jd Hayes-trained gelding has been a rival of Pride Of Jenni four times in 2024, starting with the C F Orr Stakes – which he won narrowly – but then chased her home in the All-Star Mile (second), Australian Cup (fifth) and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (third). Mr Brightside headed for a well-earned break after the Queen Elizabeth on April 13, which Ben Hayes said the rising seven-year-old, who returned to work earlier this month, embraced. “We can’t fault him, he’s a happy horse and he’s working great,” Hayes said. “He put on nearly 40-45 kilos, so he had a really good holiday. “He’s carrying some nice condition, but that’s a good position to be in at this time.” The son of Bullbars will be stepped up to even-time work this week but is being prepared to start his spring campaign later than the past two seasons. Last year he became just the third dual winner of the P B Lawrence Stakes and a shot at becoming the first three-time winner of that Group 2 event beckons, but Hayes said his new-season debut would come in Caulfield’s other 1400m weight-for-age event in August. “We’re going to miss the Lawrence,” Hayes said. “We just wanted to give him a little bit more of a break and we’ll go to the Memsie first-up. “There are not many other options for a horse like him, otherwise you’re kicking off over a mile, so the Memsie will be the go at this stage and then there is no direct path towards a race like a Cox Plate for us.” Mr Brightside also won last year’s $750,000 Group 1 Memsie Stakes, which will this year be run at Caulfield on August 31. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Group Three winner Trust In You (NZ) (Sweynesse) made his first public outing of his preparation at Pukekohe on Tuesday, with trainers Grant Cooksley and Bruce Wallace eyeing a potentially lucrative spring campaign with the rising six-year-old. The son of Sweynesse was one of the top staying performers of the summer, winning the Dunstan horsefeeds Stayers Championship Final (2400m) and Gr.3 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2400m) at Pukekohe on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day respectively, and was runner-up in the Nathans Memorial (2200m) at Ellerslie. He returned to Pukekohe on Tuesday to compete in a pipe-opener over 800m, and Cooksley was satisfied with his fourth placed run. “He just had a run over 800m to bring him on a little bit and he went quite well,” Cooksley said. “He is just getting stronger as he gets older, and he has come back really good, I am quite happy with him.” Spring feature targets await Trust In You, with Sydney being the favoured destination at this stage of his preparation. “We are thinking about going to Sydney for the Metropolitan (Gr.1, 2400m), but we will just see how he comes up,” Cooksley said. Trust In You was joined in his heat by new stablemate Meaningful Star (Pivotal), who pleased with his third placed hit-out. The Irish-bred gelding was formerly trained in Hong Kong by Francis Lui, for whom he won four races up to Class 2 level. Cooksley said they are still learning about the son of Pivotal and are yet to map out a spring plan for the horse with an 87 rating. “I don’t know much about the horse,” Cooksley said. “The owner rang us about six or seven months ago, we gave him a bit of work, put him out and have brought him back and gave him a run around (today) to see what he can do. It was quite a good trial. “We have no plans for him at the moment, we will just see what happens.” Meanwhile, promising juvenile So Naïve (NZ) (U S Navy Flag) has returned to work alongside Group Three winner Sacred Satono (NZ) (Satono Aladdin). “The plan (with Sacred Satono) is to go to the Foxbridge (Gr.2, 1200m) and then the first leg at Hastings (Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy, 1400m).” View the full article -
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Mont Ventoux (NZ) (Nom Du Jeu) may have won seven races and more than $170,000 on the flat, but the eight-year-old gelding is finding it a bit harder to break maiden ranks over fences. The son of Nom du Jeu has had nine hurdle starts for seven placings and he will be looking to secure his maiden jumps victory when he heads to Te Aroha’s rescheduled meeting on Thursday where he will tackle the Majestic Horse Floats Hurdles (3100m). “It has been a little disappointing that he hasn’t managed to win. For a seven-win flat horse he is taking a while to crack maidens,” trainer Rudy Liefting said. “I think that he just has trouble seeing out the trip a little bit. He did win a Kiwifruit Cup (2100m), but a lot of his wins were 1400m to a mile. Even though he is bred to stay, he hasn’t quite got that dourness and toughness that a lot of the seasoned jumpers have got to grind out a distance. “Last start he wasn’t beaten far. Watching the replay, he chipped in a short one in the last two or three jumps and I think that just cost him half a length. “He has made $200,000 in prizemoney and he keeps ticking over the till. He should be a chance and if he runs in the first three, we will be happy.” Stablemate Renegade Fighter (NZ) (Zed) will also be out to score his maiden jumps victory in the TAJC Hospitality Function Centre Hurdles (3100m), however, Liefting would have preferred to have started the gelding in the Agrisea NZ Steeplechase (3500m). “I have had trouble getting riders for him,” he said. “I would rather have him in a steeplechase, because I think he will make a steeplechaser, but I can’t get a rider in the steeplechase. “Call Me Jack looks like a home run (in the hurdle), but we are a second or third place chance with the field having fallen away with a few scratchings. “He wants a really heavy track so hopefully we get that, and I think he will be some sort of chance.” Mont Ventoux is a $1.65 favourite for the opening race on the card with TAB bookmakers, while Renegade Fighter is a $17 outsider in his contest. View the full article -
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