Unraced two-year-old filly Figment will give eagle-eyed racing historians purpose to recollect the legendary Useless when she begins at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.
Figment’s jockey, Andrew Adkins, might be sporting sky blue, pink sleeves and royal blue cap – the identical set of colors that have been synonymous with the riders of Useless, the freakish sprinter who gained 12 of his 14 begins together with the 1969 Golden Slipper.
Corridor of Famer Useless was bred and raced by Walter Johnson and his great-grandson, bloodstock agent and Figment’s part-owner Will Johnson, was given the well-known colors as a birthday current.
Figment, skilled by Peter and Paul Snowden, is definitely associated to Useless on his dam’s facet.
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Crew Snowden’s sensible three-year-old filly Revolutionary Miss impressed with a classy barrier trial win over the race-fit Kanazawa at Rosehill on Thursday morning.
Revolutionary Miss, raced by Michael and Chris Ward’s Triple Crown Syndications, was having her first critical hit-out this marketing campaign and gained her 1030m warmth by a half-length.
A twin Group 1 runner-up within the Blue Diamond and Thousand Guineas final yr, Revolutionary Miss is being primed for the Mild Fingers Stakes and Encompass Stakes subsequent month.
Livid Stakes winner North Star Lass and Victoria Oaks runner-up Pavitra have been each positioned in separate 900m trials and in addition prone to resume within the Mild Fingers Stakes on February 11.
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They solely gained on the Warwick Farm midweeks however Command Accepted and Suppose About It regarded properly above common scoring with authority on Wednesday.
Command Accepted, now with the Matthew Smith steady, dashed over 1000m in a quick 56.31s and is prepared for Sydney Saturday class.
The identical applies to the Joe Delight-trained Suppose About It who made it three wins from 4 begins with a dominant first-up effort over 1200m.
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Flemington’s Saturday race assembly will start at 10.30am as a result of scorching climate forecast for Melbourne.
With the temperature anticipated to soar to 36c later within the afternoon, the Victoria Racing Membership has selected the sooner begin with the ultimate race on this system scheduled for two.53pm.
The nine-race Flemington program additionally alerts the return of champion jockey Blake Shinn after his controversial 12-meeting suspension for overuse of the whip on My Yankee Woman final month.
Shinn has eight rides on Saturday together with straight-track specialist Halvorsen who’s making an attempt to change into the primary horse to win three Standish Handicaps.
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The Kembla Grange racing neighborhood is in mourning after the passing of Norm Thomason earlier this week.
Thomason, who had been clerk of the course for the Illawarra Turf Membership since 1999, died on Wednesday. He was 68.
Kembla Grange is internet hosting a seven-race program on Saturday and the ITC has renamed the benchmark 68 dash the Vale Norm Thomason Handicap (1400m), to honour the reminiscence of the favored long-time membership worker.
Initially revealed as Peter and Paul Snowden-trained two-year-old debutant to hold the colors of the champion sprinter
