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Anna to hand it out to the boys!
Graceful Anna donkey-licked the girls last start in the Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast and we're predicting it will be more of the same when the colts are added to the equation in the Fred Best Classic (race 3) for 3yos at Doomben tomorrow.
Whichever way you look at it, it's difficult not to come up with the David Pfieffer-trained filly as the winner of this race.
She's won her previous Doomben start, she's unbeaten at two starts over the distance, she's won her only start at the course and she's a swimmer in the event of a wet track.
With her imposing winning record, she's hugely advantaged at the set weights and at her third run from a break she'll be approaching her peak fitness-wise. She got the run of the race last start perched off the speed to pounce at the end and we're predicting a carbon-copy repeat tomorrow.
And any doubts about her handling the boys should be laid to rest with the realization that she knocked off recent AJC Derby winner Shoot Out over this exact course last December!
In tomorrow's feature race, the Doomben Cup, we expect Road To Rock to turn the tables on Metal Bender.
Mascareri kept the winners rolling for the headline specials in Sydney last week. We were disappointed by the run of Starstreamed in Brisbane. The best that we can offer is that he wasn't suited by the draw which left him cluttered up on the fence in a race with figures didn't really flatter any runner.
This week's headline specials
Graceful Anna (Doomben race 3)
Music Review (Rosehill race 6)
Galbraith (Caulfield race 4)
Lindsay's Lay of the Day
He sucked in big last week and got hottie Ortensia beaten at Doomben and Stage Performer went over for good measure in Sydney. That's the form that has earned our boy his fearless reputation.
He was completely unconvinced by Skytrain's win a fortnight ago and has come back to the well to knock it again. Careful, Lindsay, we hope this hasn't got personal.
This week's lays are:
Doomben race 5: Buffering
Rosehill race 8: Skytrain
A headline tip!
Horsetorque's Gavin Haynes "Catapulted" back into the winners list last week and he's gone for a bit of value with this week's selection at what is sure to be a tough meeting at Doomben.
PRESSDAY (Doomben race 5) is from the powerful Waller yard, he resumes here and did win first-up last time in. He followed that with a good third behind the talented Hinchinbrook in very good time, which reads as very good form for this. He'd had enough by the time he got to the Pago Pago.
He should have come on further during his break and significantly Nash Rawiller takes the ride. Fitter for a recent trial and he looks to sprint well fresh.
At $12 pre-post, he looks a very tempting eachway chance, for mine.
Paprika to be too hot for them!
Back to the earth with a thud last week, the Mug is keen to reignite his winning surge and is hopeful that Paprika can recapture her 2yo form to run a big race in the first at Doomben.
The Mug's always on the lookout for an improver at odds and he reckons he's found one in Paprika at Doomben tomorrow. It would be easy to dismiss her chances on the basis of her two runs this time in but a closer look shows that two wide draws have led to poor luck both times - stuck in the middle of the track at her first start and driven mad in front last start at the Coast. From her good draw tomorrow, she's likely to be perched one out off the speed.
Now has she got the ability to win tomorrow's race? Too right she has, says the Mug, if she can regain her earlier form. She won four races as a 2yo, culminating in a second to Phelan Ready in last year's Magic Millions.
She was put away after that run to reappear ten months' later in the group 2 Schillaci Stakes in Melbourne where she finished a 3.5 length fourth to Lucky Secret at WFA. That's pretty big form for tomorrow's class of race and the Mug is expecting the cream to rise to the top tomorrow.
The Mug's a little biassed with his Sydney tip tomorrow because he backed Killian (race 4) to a big double-figure win first-up last preparation.
And what a preparation it was for this Snowden-trained galloper last time - four starts, bookended with wins and a second and third in the middle.
In his eternal quest for value, the Mug notes that the raging favourite in tomorrow's race is Tromso, which just happens to be the horse that Killian beat over tomorrow's track and distance first-up last preparation.
He's not had much luck trying to latch onto an improving young stayer in Melbourne recently but he's hoping the drought will end with Mr Molokai in race 5 tomorrow.
He toyed with his rivals last start at his third race start in a 1700 metres provincial maiden. It's a huge jump up to city class in tomorrow's 2000 metre race but trainer Michael Moroney has his eye on the Queensland Derby with this horse and with Glen Boss on tomorrow, expect a bold showing at double-figure odds.
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