TAB Freeway profitable coach Michelle Fleming’s persistence may have a extra tangible reward on Tuesday ought to her discount purchase Our Boy Ollie run as much as expectations.
Fleming’s colt has gone winless in his eight begins up to now however has already turned a revenue for connections given his meagre $9,000 price ticket as a yearling.
Our Boy Ollie is getting higher with every passing day thanks partially to Flemings’ unwillingness to rush the four-year-old alongside.
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“He’s a pleasant horse however is only a late maturing horse,” she stated.
“He has come on this preparation much more mature and is studying his commerce now which is nice. He has bought a lot capacity, even in his monitor gallops, you simply know it’s there.”
Our Boy Ollie handed in a profession greatest efficiency when he resumed at Scone 15-days in the past, ending hardest of all from the again of the sphere to clock in second.
“Alysha (Collett) rode him completely as a result of I didn’t wish to bust him too early on that Heavy monitor so we wanted to do our work late and credit score to the horse,” Fleming stated.
“He got here via and ran fantastically so hopefully we are able to do the identical on Tuesday.
“I’d have favored to have put him in one other 1000 metre race simply to get every little thing proper however he had a soar out earlier than his final begin so he’s effectively and actually match sufficient to go to 1200 metres and I believe that may go well with him higher.
“He’ll possible be a bit nearer (within the run) over 1200m which is able to give him that chance to come back house and he gained’t must make up as a lot floor.”
Our Boy Ollie is from the second crop of foals sired by Widden Stud resident sire, Outreach.
Himself a brother to the 2012 Golden Slipper winner, Overreach, Outreach was robbed of his probability of Slipper glory having been compelled into retirement after his debut second within the Canonbury Stakes to subsequent Slipper winner, Vancouver.
On high of that, Our Boy Ollie is a member of probably the most celebrated households within the Studbook.
The gelding’s fifth dam is former bookmaker and proprietor/breeder Col Tidy’s mare, Summoned, who left 5 stakes winners together with five-time Group 1 winner and excellent stallion, Zeditave.
Fleming’s different runner at Tamworth on Tuesday (relying on any scratchings) is her beloved steady captain, The Lion, who introduced her with a profession spotlight when he gained a TAB Freeway at Rosehill on Carrington Stakes Day in 2018.
The Lion who was born and bred in Tamworth, ran final crushed 10-lengths at Beaumont final Tuesday with excuses.
“The barrier bounced again on him so we didn’t get a really clear begin so he was approach again,” Fleming identified.
“He did really make up a little bit of floor and caught as much as the sphere however they have been lengthy passed by then as a result of it was a agency monitor after which ran a category document.
“I believe over 1200m on Tuesday, they’ll know that he’s there.”
ARLIEBEL TO OVERCOME BIG WEIGHT AT NOTCH ANOTHER WIN
Coach Theresa Stair is hoping a steep rise in weight gained’t be sufficient to disclaim her progressive mare Arliebel a hat-trick of wins when she steps out at Tamworth..
Arliebel can depend herself considerably unfortunate to not be aiming for 4 wins in a row on Tuesday having kicked off her beautiful third racing marketing campaign with a now trademark barnstorming second at Quirindi.
Stair’s mare has adopted with consecutive wins, firstly, at Armidale and once more at Quirindi 12-days later the place she carried 52kg.
Her mission on Tuesday, whereas wholly appropriate, would require her to shoulder six and a half kilos extra given a rider change.
“The races have all been falling into place for her however this time I believe it’s a a lot stronger subject than what she has crushed beforehand,” Stair stated.
“The proprietor opted to place the senior jockey (Grant Buckley) on her this time so will probably be fascinating to see how she goes.”
Stair has all the time had a excessive opinion of Arliebel who has been on a gradual upward trajectory since her debut fifth at Scone on April 4 this 12 months.
“It has taken a short time and she or he remains to be studying,” Stair stated.
“You may need seen she remains to be racing a bit of bit greenly however she goes rather well.
“She is a four-year-old now and is simply beginning to discover her straps and is settled within the stables. She is a beautiful mare to do something with.
“I’ve had a good bit to do with the breed and so they all appear to take a short time.
Arliebel was spared from a nine-hour return journey to Sydney on the weekend with Stair choosing an task a lot nearer to house.
“I did nominate her for the Freeway final Saturday nevertheless it was 1100 metres which wasn’t a perfect distance and she or he would have been the fourth emergency when the fields got here out,” Stair defined.
“Because it labored out, there have been a lot of scratching and she or he would have gotten a run however it is vitally laborious to journey from right here to Sydney when you find yourself an emergency and never figuring out whether or not you’re going to get a run our not.”
Initially revealed as Tamworth preview: Our Boy Ollie is lastly prepared to indicate his true potential
