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Baker filly one of some Hundreds of thousands hopes who will spherical out preparations at Randwick
It has been virtually a decade because the Magic Hundreds of thousands 2YO Basic was received by a horse who didn’t have its remaining lead-up run in Queensland, however Bjorn Baker is seeking to buck that pattern with O’ Ole.
The daughter of Ole Kirk will spherical out her preparations on this Saturday’s $160,000 Petaluma Handicap at Randwick.
The 1100-metre occasion shall be run two weeks out from the $3 million Gold Coast characteristic and whereas there was additionally an possibility for O’ Ole at Eagle Farm, Baker was eager to maintain her house for so long as attainable.
“There’s a related race in Queensland on Saturday, however this simply leaves her at house for a little bit longer and we’ll be capable to run on this after which head as much as Gold Coast,” Baker’s racing supervisor Luke Hilton stated.
“She’ll run on Saturday after which that may give her two weeks into the Magic Hundreds of thousands.
“She’s clearly certified for that by profitable the Wyong race however she wants a tick over run main into it, so she’ll go round on Saturday.”
O’ Ole (58kg) will this weekend renew hostilities with Memo (56.5kg), who she defeated within the Wyong Magic Hundreds of thousands 2YO Basic and in addition beat house when second within the Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes on September 30.
Tempestuous (58kg), the overwhelmed favorite at Wyong, additionally strains up and the Gold Coast continues to be on the agenda for that trio, who shall be out to grow to be the primary horse since Capitalist to win the Magic Hundreds of thousands off a remaining lead-up exterior Queensland.
Capitalist, the 2016 Magic Hundreds of thousands winner, went straight to the Gold Coast off a win in the identical race that O’ Ole received at Wyong.
Memo is favorite over O’ Ole in each Saturday’s race and in addition the Magic Hundreds of thousands, however the Baker workforce is delighted with its cost.
“She will’t have finished any greater than what she did at Wyong,” Hilton stated.
“She sat exterior an excellent pace and win and we all know she continues to be enhancing on a regular basis, as many of the two-year-olds are.
“We couldn’t be happier together with her. Rachel King galloped her Tuesday morning and she or he was over the moon with how she feels and she or he’s progressing properly with the extra racing she’s getting.”
King will get again aboard O’ Ole at Randwick, after Jason Collett rode at Wyong, with the pair to start out from the skin alley within the area that’s right down to eight runners.
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