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If trainer Anthony Cummings’s suspicions about the suspect staying depth among the males are right, Nothin’ Leica Cat is going to be figuring in the Queensland Derby finish at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
“It seems the fillies have had the depth and strength over the colts up here,” Cummings told the Sydney Morning Herald’s Craig Young.
Cummings said he was influenced to run Nothin’ Leica Cat in the Derby after the filly Saint Minerva trounced the colts in the Grand Prix Stakes last week.
“I wasn’t certain if Nothin’ Leica Cat had another run in her but she has coped with everything. If anything she is brighter than she was last week,” Cummings said.
Nothin’ Leica Cat is backing up after finishing second in the Queensland Oaks last week. Her chances were thwarted by a wide barrier but she still took three lengths off the winner in the home straight.
The filly, who is in her first preparation, has drawn 12 this time and Corey Brown replaces the suspended Damien Oliver.
As an $8 chance, she is one of only four runners quoted at under double figures to win the race.
Solo Flyer will be the stable’s second Group I runner at the Eagle Farm meeting when he lines up in the Stradbroke Handicap.
Glyn Schofield will ride Solo Flyer for the first time. The four-year-old, who starred during the Sydney autumn carnival, is a $26 Stradbroke chance.
Friday, 5 June 2009 |
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