Georgie’s Pride simply doesn’t know how to run a bad race, and she looks the one to beat again in the fourth at Eagle Farm this afternoon.
The Tony Gollan-trained filly has had five starts since resuming in January, winning four times, including a couple of similar races to this one, most recently.
She’s rock-hard fit, drawn a peach, and she is my best bet of the day.
Grand Promenade is unlucky not to have already won this prep, but gets another chance in the fourth at Sandown today.
Grand Promenade tuned up with a good effort for second behind Mohican Heights at Mornington when resuming and only just missed, beaten in a photo finish by Independent Road at Caulfield last time.
He will relish getting out to a mile and a half and I am happy to stick with him.
Subpoenaed has been freshened since her fair effort for seventh in the Coolmore Classic and I think she’ll take a power of beating in the Robert Sangster Stakes.
The four-year-old daughter of Rip Van Winkle has been an outstanding horse for the outstanding Waller stable pretty much since making her debut, and he has recorded plenty of impressive wins in black type company during her nineteen trips to the races.
A Group 1 crown still eludes her, but her fresh form is excellent, I’m confident she is at her best over sprinting trips and she has drawn ideally into a field whereby a lot of her leading rivals have not.
At around the $10 mark, we can have an each-way play.
Fender was an impressive winner at Doomben when resuming and he can make it two in a row in the last at Eagle Farm today.
The Brett Cavanough-trained gelding has been an outstanding horse for the stable throughout his career and has raced well around some excellent horses.
He has been kept up to the mark with a trial since his last effort and harbours plenty of improvement.