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This year’s Adelaide Cup winner Zavite will begin his quest for racing’s ultimate prize in Saturday’s Group II Warwick Stakes (1400m) to be run on his home track Randwick.
Zavite’s trainer Anthony Cummings isn’t expecting a win from the seven-year-old but wants to see the son of Zabeel working home strongly at the end of the race.
“He probably can’t win, he’ll find a few of these a bit slick,” Cummings said. “But he trialled really well the other day and he’s in great order and he’ll run well without winning.”
Cummings has set Zavite on a Melbourne Cup path and will go into the spring with no worries about the gelding running out the two miles of the great race after Zavite produced a tough on-pace performance claim the Adelaide Cup over the distance in March.
“He’ll have a couple more runs in Sydney in races like the Chelmsford Stakes and the Hill Stakes before he heads down to Melbourne for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups,” Cummings said.
Down in Melbourne, the Anthony Cummings stable has a definite chance of recording their first Victorian win of the season when Galileo’s Daughter runs at Moonee Valley.
Galileo’s Daughter will run in the Dominant Handicap over 2040 metres and the Group I-placed mare will be well suited at her third run back from a spell in 0-89 grade.
“She went to Moonee Valley and worked really well on Tuesday,” Cummings’ Melbourne foreman Graham Woolston said. “She got round the track well and impressed Mark Zahra who will ride her on Saturday.
“Last time out she was ridden by Matthew Chadwick and he was instructed to sit handy but he took her to the front and Galileo’s Daughter fought on very well for fourth.
“She’s done well since and she’s right in there with a strong winning chance.”
Friday, 21 August 2009 |
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