RACE DAYS GETTING BUSIER.

This weekend we head to the races with four runners and over the next couple of months I reckon that four runners each weekend will be fairly typical. We do not have any older horses racing apart from GUYNO so most of my runners will be two and three year olds getting ready for a crack at the Karrakatta Plate, The Oaks or The Derby. With a little bit of luck we should have a live chance in most races.

It feels strange to call GUYNO an older horse as it seems like only yesterday that the horse entered my stables as a lightly framed, woolly coated immature little two year old who would not have looked out of place at a bush riding school. Even at his first summer campaign he looked like a hairy yak! Now he has acclimatised and I have to say that his coat and condition have never looked better. GUYNO heads up our runners tomorrow when he has to carry 58.5kg in a basic $50,000 Saturday handicap, which has been added to the program to replace what should have been the running of the Pinjarra Cup on Sunday.This race should top him off nicely for the Bunbury Cup to be run on March 13th. Hopefully the handicapper can see his way clear to give him a chance to win that race by not asking him to carry the grandstand in that event.

We start off the day tomorrow with two two year olds in the first race, MAROONED AGAIN and FORWARD COURT. Both horses are racing first up tomorrow and both have shown ability at trials. I would expect them both to derive a lot of benefit from tomorrows race. MAROONED AGAIN is part of the last crop of foals by Marooned, a stallion who produced so many of my winners during the late eighties and early nineties. He is typical of the breed and I have no doubt he will make the grade as he develops and matures. FORWARD COURT is from the first crop of Zentsov Street, a stallion who stands at Yarradale Stud. There have not been a lot to race by him as yet however there are a few showing some worthwhile ability.

We finish the day tomorrow with three years old filly LA COUREUSE who will hopefully bounce back to the form she was showing prior to her last start failure. I am still at a loss to work out what happened that day. The filly wore blinkers for the first time this preparation and it was her only disappointing run. That, in addition to her being injured in the barrier prior to the race leaves me wondering just what did happen.

The filly has had the blinkers removed and replaced with winkers and her leg injuries have settled down. If the filly runs up to her earlier form I see no reason why she can't improve enough to give this race a real shake up.

All in all I am looking forward to the day but more so I am looking forward to the next few months and hopefully winning a nice race or two.