Rising remaining star Straight Albert extended his winning sequence to four having a convincing victory in Thursday’s Listed Gosford Gold Cup.

Assisted by a superb Kathy O’Hara ride from an internal gate, the well-backed Straight notched his third Cup win this campoaign as he held off Wazn by three-quarters of the length using the breakaway leader Legsman waiting on hold for third, a neck away.

The previous country-trained gelding has had giant strides this preparation since joining the man Walter stable at Warwick Farm using the Gosford Cup (2100m) success coming after wins inb the Goulburn Cup (1600m) in November and Listed Tatt’s Club Cup (2100m) at Warwick Farm on The month of january 2.

Walter is undecided where you can mind next using the quickly-enhancing four-year-old but is favouring reducing back around the gelding until late within the Sydney fall before heading north for that Queensland circus using the Group One Doomben Cup like a likely target.

“He’ll possess a let-up now and could return for that latter area of the fall and winter,” Walter stated.

“It had been an excellent ride. Kathy planned to obtain from the rail heading out from the straight because she felt there is likely to be lots of speed within the race.

“I figured she rode him fantastically. She desired to provide him room while he requires a while to find yourself, but he’s in wonderful form and he’s only a nice equine improving and.Inch

O’Hara summed the race up perfectly having a wall of horses charging towards the first turn.

Straight Albert settled midfield from inside draw but O’Hara rapidly got from the fence as Legsman labored round the area to consider the running.

Legsman broke away in the 600mn but because the area contacted the house turn Straight Albert labored his distance to contention and after styling rapidly required charge.

Straight Albert gave Walter his second Gosford Cup success following a previous win together with his classy mare Rose bush Honey.

Ex-Sydney galloper Lockmar returns to Rosehill on Saturday the very first time since Frank Gardner offloaded the speedster to gifted Wagga trainer Trevor Sutherland.

The seven-year-old is within career-best form underneath the tutelage of Sutherland, presently third within the NSW

trainers’ premiership, and it is primed to operate a powerful race within the JB Maher Memorial Handicap (1500m).

Sutherland broke the equine in like a kid however the equine spent the majority of his career at Rosehill with

Gardner, who upon the market this past year.

After running ninth within the Lizard Gully Cup (1400m) at Gundagai, his begin for Sutherland, Lockmar skyrocketed into existence having a dominant win at Canberra before two more salutes at Wagga.

Up at school but well lower in weight on Saturday, Sutherland predicted his gelding could be prominent.

“He’s got an impressive last 2 or 3 hundred if you’re able to just make him settle and relax in behind

them, he is able to opt for any equine around australia during the last 300,” Sutherland stated.

“I thought in Sydney he most likely burned their own chances a little. In individuals days he most likely over

competed just a little – we have been capable of getting him to stay a bit better.

“If he will get some cover and travels up good each morning, and he’s an excellent traveller, he’ll be hard

to conquer. He loves Rosehill, he’s always competed well at Rosehill.”

Lockmar won remarkably three begins back at Canberra at lengthy odds, settling for the back before

bursting through around the rail and tugging 3.5L obvious.

He won a wide open handicap at Wagga two days later before declaring his hat-trick in the same track in

the Ted Ryder Cup.

Sutherland always were built with a strong opinion from the equine and was confident he’d produce this campaign.

“He was always a large strong tough equine, and he’s never transformed,” Sutherland stated.

“Frank just upon the market, he’s making a little. He is at the paddock and so i got him straight from the

paddock and that he came here.

“I thought he carried out pretty much in Sydney last prep, there is just a couple of [of races] he tapered off

right in the finish however i reckon he’d a feet problem just like a feet abscess just happening things i saw after i

shod him up.”

Sutherland will even saddle up in-form mare Ambergris on Saturday within the Schweppes Handicap

(1400m).

Like her stablemate, Ambergris is really a last-start champion getting saluted at Canberra on December 30, and

Sutherland stated she seemed to be able to upstaging her city rivals.

“She’s merely a little mare but everything she’s ever competed in she has been competitive,” Sutherland stated.

“A handful of begins before she came 15s and 16s and transported 60kg and only agreed to be caught deep the trip and

got close only beaten an overall length, an overall length . 5 in individuals races.

“She’s exactly the same [as Lockmar] she will get hidden away and she or he could possibly get home good too. She warrants

her chance, she has been put into town before and she’s won a few provincials.

“She’s got a pleasant pedigree and we are most likely beginning to appear for the breeding barn together with her.

“Both horses have been in good health so why wouldn’t you try them out.”

Friday, 13 The month of january 2012: A lamentable insufficient Victorian support for that Miracle Million races hasn’t lowered Flemington trainer Mark Kavanagh’s confidence that his two-year-old Alezan Thunder is capable of doing an upset in the Gold Coast on Saturday.

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Kavanagh and David Hayes would be the only Victorian-based trainers with runners in Saturday’s $two million Miracle Millions Classic with extended double figure odds available about the likelihood of their runners Alezan Thunder and Mrs Grey upsetting the strong representation from NSW and Queensland stables.

However Kavanagh has cautioned the Melbourne two-year-old form shouldn’t be reduced with Alezan Thunder boasting two wins from her three begins including a simple last start conquer 900m at Sandown on December 24.

“I figured she’d an excellent chance,” Kavanagh stated when questioned concerning the interstate competition within the Miracle Millions Classic.

“We are here and we are not kidding.”

Sydney-trained two-year-olds dominate the MM Classic betting using the classy Queensland colt Sizzling because of the best possibility of suppressing their effective assault.

Gai Waterhouse’s unbeaten filly Driefontein heads the betting over Sizzling using the other NSW-trained runners Amorino, No Searching Back , Fundido, Hoss Amor and Dear Demi all prominent in betting marketplaces.

Fundido’s trainer Chris Waller went past Driefontein and Sizzling by nominating the Gerald Ryan-trained Amorino, a remarkable champion of his two begins in Sydney, because the kid to conquer.

Fundido seemed to be a remarkable Sydney champion at his begin at Rosehill before failing at his second start.

While Waller needs a significantly enhanced showing from Fundido carrying out a subsequent barrier trial, he states Amorino has all of the right qualifications to win in the Gold Coast.

“Amorino continues to be spectacular in the two wins in Sydney. I rate the shape the most powerful two-year-old form in the united states,Inch Waller stated.

“I am certain of the strong Sydney juvenile form. It’s so tough to win the 2-year-old races in Sydney.

“Good two-year-olds may come along in the other states but like a group Sydney is often the benchmark which appears to be this season.Inch

Travino , the very first Nz-trained runner inside a Miracle Millions Classic, may be the wild card based on his trainer Peter McKay.

Travino may be the champion of his last three begins in NZ from five begins but McKay states it’s impossible to evaluate how he’ll perform in the Gold Coast.

“You can’t really fall into line Kiwi two-year-old form using the Australian form,” stated McKay.

“He could win or run near last. I’m not sure what to anticipate.Inch

The only real other runner from stables outdoors Queensland and NSW may be the South Australian colt Little Animal in the Tony McEvoy stable.

He unsuccessful to measure when examined against good Sydney youngsters within the Wyong Miracle Millions won by Hoss Amor on December 22 and it has since been beaten in the Gold Coast.

Friday, 13 The month of january 2012: Grafton hobby trainer Vanessa McLennan is near a lucrative fall campaign with unbeaten two-year-old Curley Mac, who lines up within the Australian Turf Club Plate (1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

McLennan is applying the race like a litmus test for that flying gelding to determine whether he analyzes to

metropolitan grade following easy wins at Grafton and Kempsey in November.

She intends to spell him for any month following the race and it is thinking of getting from the two-year-old race in the This summer

Grafton circus.

But that may quickly change if Curley Mac upstages his city rivals on Saturday mid-day, and

McLennan stated she’d happily affect the horse’s program if required.

“If she has the capacity then why don’t you,” McLennan stated of contesting a few of the Sydney autumn’s wealthy

two-year-old races.

“The Miracle Millions take presctiption in the Gold Coast so hopefully it’ll divert him from all of the wise horses

there, and also the Inglis Classic’s the next week.

“If we are going to possess a go we’ll hopefully try it out while all of the good horses are away.

“You’re a little country trainer in comparison towards the large city trainers but he’s an opportunity if he is able to produce

what he is able to do, and he’s a little untouched and unknown because he’s never been let plain.

“This really provides me with a great guide of the items his abilities will be.”

McLennan happens to be around horses, initially through pony club, and it has been training since

2000.

Curley Mac is just one of five she presently has in focus on a 22-acre property just outdoors of Grafton.

Saturday’s gallop at Rosehill is definitely the gelding’s greatest make sure starts McLennan against the kind of

Gai Waterhouse and Peter Snowden, but she’s confident Curley Mac holds their own.

He first showed by having an easy three-length win at Grafton, and backed up to win by two measures at

Kempsey nine days later.

However the most enjoyable moment for McLennan came on Sunday as he won a wide open barrier trial at

Coffs Harbour, breaking 33sec during the last 600m.

At this pace, he may potentially challenge the kind of this season’s top-ranked two-year-old

Raceway , or Miracle Millions fancies Driefontein and Sizzling .

“I’ve always had a viewpoint from day us dot of him since he was created because he’s great,” she

stated.

“I broke him in in the young age of 13 several weeks old and that we began him inside a barrier trial as he managed

at Coffs Harbour that they won really simple.

“It’s like he’s been here before, he’s just very knowledgeable, very forward. He’s still a really youthful equine

but he’s very mature in the attitude and what he is doing.

“He’s beginning to stay lower now therefore it [Saturday's race] will probably be a great guide using the items to

come for him.”

Friday, 13 The month of january 2012: Betfair has tossed its sponsorship support behind a fighting country trainer along with a nine-year-old gelding many would regard because the worst carried out around australia.

Mildura-trained Election For Lust is winless after 83 career begins but this shocking record hasn’t discouraged the earth’s biggest betting exchange from tossing its support behind the gelding and the trainer John Castleman.

Betfair has introduced that it’ll offer the immediate racing campaign of Election For List with the hope of knocking over among the longest losing streaks in Australian racing history.

The arrangement might find Election For Lust race in Betfair’s colours, using the betting exchange supporting the Castleman stable financially.

Betfair will launch a publicity campaign targeted at encouraging racing fans to obtain behind the best underdog of Australian racing.

Betfair’s Media and Communications Manager Mathew Thompson stated the initial partnership reflects his organisation’s resolve for grass roots racing.

“Very couple of trainers would persevere having a equine like Election For Lust,” he stated.

“When we had that John Castleman was ongoing to campaign this fighting gelding we made the decision he deserved our support within the mission for your elusive race win.

“Australian racing appropriately holds champions like Black Caviar, however the industry would grind to some halt otherwise for individuals like John Castleman and horses like Election for Lust.

“They typify the idea of the Aussie battler.

“Vote For Lust might be ranked because the worst active racehorse in the united states, but Aussies love an underdog by supporting his forthcoming race begins hopefully the general public can get behind him and may result in a minumum of one victory before he’s upon the market.”

Castleman stated he was thrilled to possess Betfair supporting his stable.

“There aren’t many trainers that might be happy to achieve the ‘worst equine in Australia’ within their stable but he’s getting good attention along with a bigger following than horses which have won a large number of races.

“He’s become a little of the icon for any growing group who’d like to see him win a race before he finishes up racing.”

Friday, 13 The month of january 2012: After extensive activly works to decommission the Royal Randwick grandstands, redevelopment from the racecourse facilities will start in serious from The month of january 16.

Starting on The month of january 16 your building companies will to experience a final strip from the grandstands and establish site limitations when preparing for that commencement from the major demolition work the next week.

The very first from the demolition works would be the Paddock Stand, starting on Monday The month of january 23 by having an expected time-frame of six days.

It will likely be then the partial demolition from the Full Elizabeth II Stand. Demolition of other surrounding structures follows.

This era of works means changes to normalcy training hrs and access plans.

All trainers and jockeys will have to access the infield via means apart from the pedestrian tunnel since it’s entrance is the central demolition site.

Throughout the redevelopment Royal Randwick’s betting auditorium continues to use normally daily within the Official Stand.

The following race meeting to become held at Randwick is Turnpoint Randwick Guineas Day on March 17.