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Gosford preview: Trainer Kylie Gavenlock anticipates a strong performance from Renoir in his mile test
Trainer Kylie Gavenlock has been quite happy with Renoir in his two runs back from a spell and feels the gelding can run a bold race when he gets his first opportunity over a suitable distance. The four-year-old was spelled after one run in September of 2023 and returned from his long break with a fifth behind Donwon over 1000m at Gosford on May 29. Renoir followed up with a fifth to Caelus over 1300m at Hawkesbury where he was doing his best work through the line. The four-year-old's pedigree also suggests he will be much better suited to the mile and further being a son of Dundeel from a granddaughter of Adrian Knox Stakes winner, Starry Way. It's a first up win for Photograph! ðŸ'· @ZacLloydx and @JamesCummings88 combine to take out the first at @sconeraceclub! â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) July 2, 2024 The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! 'He was only just getting wound up the last little bit the other day but he was very good after the post,' said Gavenlock. 'I was quite happy with his first-up run too. The distance was too short but I don't think the heavy track suited him. 'While he got through it okay, he will appreciate the bit better going this week. 'Now that we have got him up to the mile, I think that should suit him a lot more.' Gavenlock feels Renoir is ready to run much better than a $31 chance in the Eagles Plumbing Plus Super Maiden Plate (1600m). 'This doesn't look the strongest Super Maiden and I wouldn't have thought he would the price that he is. He is worth a couple of bucks each-way,' she said. Gavenlock's other two runners are both first-up but she feels they can run well. Alfred will resumes in the Bateau Bay Bowling Club Maiden Plate (1100m). While unplaced in his seven runs to date, Alfred has finished fourth and fifth in five of them. 'He's probably a little unlucky not to have had a couple of placings,' Gavenlock said. 'He is a horse that is not mature yet. He is a really leggy horse and I feel next time in, he will be a better deal.' The son of Saxon Warrior will need a little luck after drawing the outside barrier. 'It's a sticky gate for him. I would have liked he draw in a bit rather than (barrier) eight of eight. It is what it is. Thebes and @AnnaRoper_ race away with the third at Taree! â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) January 7, 2025 'If he begins really well, he could get stuck out there but Josh (Parr) is no mug so hopefully he can make up for that draw. 'He will come out and find his feet and hopefully be flying home.' Gavenlock had a difficult decision to make with Thebes when she accepted for two races which he had mixed fortune with the barrier draw. In the Class 1 (1200m), he drew the outside in barrier 11 while in the Benchmark 64 Handicap (1100m) he came up with gate 2. 'It's a shame he didn't draw better in the Class 1 because this (Benchmark 64) is quite a strong race,' she said. 'Just being first-up, I wanted him to get a nice, soft run. I didn't want to take the chance of him being caught wide. 'I'd rather him flying home to run second not dropping out of it because he overraced early.' The son of American Pharoah has shown nice ability on his short career. He finished third behind Bartolf at Scone at just his second start last July while broke his maiden in nice style at Taree back on January 7. 'I like him a lot and when he gets up to 1400 metres and mile this time in, I think he will be a very nice horse,' she said. â– â– â– â– â– Ghaznavi may still be a maiden after 17 starts but trainer Cameron Crockett's faith in the gelding still remain strong. The four-year-old joined Crockett's Scone stable earlier this year and has placed in three of his five starts went within a nose of breaking through when a nose second behind Saint Philomena over 1400m at Mudgee last start. 'We are still figuring the horse out. He's been a hard to work out,' said Crockett. 'It doesn't normally take this long because he's got ability. 'He's a 17 start maiden but he's a got a lot more ability than that. 'It wouldn't shock me that once we get a good handle on him, he really puts a few wins together.' After settling back and wide from barrier eight of 11, Ghaznavi made a sustained run around the field and came down the outside fence to just miss. 🟣 Bhima Grad Winner 🟣 3YO Spandex (Pariah x Le Clercq) scores his maiden win for @saspery1 under @Aaronbullock90 at Tamworth. Bred and raised at Bhima, he was a graduate of our @mmsnippets GC Yearling Sale draft. Well done! â€' Bhima Thoroughbreds (@BhimaTBreds) June 27, 2025 'He was very unlucky. He was just stuck a bit deep from the draw and Will (Stanley) couldn't do anything about it,' he said. 'We were always planning on making an early run. It's just a shame he hadn't drawn a bit low and settled a bit closer because I think he would have won.' The son of Invader looks well placed to go one better when he steps out in the Maas Mile Maiden Handicap (1600m) with Mathew Cahill aboard. 'Now that he is up to a mile and the races are run at a steadier tempo, I think he can settle a bit closer which will help,' he said.' Crockett has liked what he has seen from recent stable addition Durova who makes her debut for the stable in the Toohey's New Benchmark 74 Handicap (1000m). The three-year-old daughter of Russian Revolution was previously trained by Ciaron Maher and won first-up last September while her last run was a handy fourth to First Mission at Canterbury on April 30. 'I bought her online a few weeks ago. She went through for $55,000 but failed the scope so they sent her back,' Crockett explained. 'My being an opportunist, when she went back online, I bought her for $13,000. 'Ash Morgan rode her at her at Canterbury and he said she was very unlucky not to have won after racing on the fence which was off that day. 'The 1000 metres might be a touch short for her but if she isn't winning, she will be the run of the race.'
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6 days ago
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Muswellbrook, Goulburn Tuesday preview: Winx and you'll miss it
Kind of. Enter Wayne Wilkes ' home-bred first-starter Bellerata. Granted, Bellerata was foaled 10 years after Winx arrived but her own dam, Uratta Belle, wasn't just a contemporary of Winx, she was once a rival. Housed on the Central Coast by Kylie Gavenlock, Uratta Belle was sent out a $4.40 favourite in the IBIS Milano Restaurant Handicap (1100m) at Warwick Farm on June 4, 2014. Try as she might, Uratta Belle finished a distant third to one of Chris Waller 's debutantes, namely, Winx. On Tuesday at Muswellbrook it will be the turn of Uratta Belle's second foal, Bellerata, to make her racetrack debut in the Godolphin Maiden Plate over 1000m. Bellerata was among the 116 foals from the first crop of Greg Hickman's All Aged Stakes winner Pierata. Wilkes' filly has trialled twice, finishing third of four in a December 30 heat at Taree before resurfacing at Port Macquarie on June 24 to clock in a close second of the half dozen runners. 'She has just got to do things right in the race,'' Wilkes said. 'She did a little bit wrong in her trial so I am just looking for a good educational run. 'She is a nice filly but she is still probably a bit young in the head too.' It may not be too long again before Wilkes is back in Sydney on a Highway quest. The Taree master is eager to test his handy chestnut Tanglewood Jimmy in another Highway after his barnstorming fourth in his first Highway back on Spring Champion Stakes day, 2024. Tanglewood Jimmy gets the job done with the big weight! ðŸ'° @Wilkes_Racing — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) November 17, 2024 'I would like to find a nice 1600m Highway for the next start would be ideal,'' Wilkes says. 'Jimmy's' immediate mission will be Tuesday's Arrowfield Class 3 Handicap (1450m). It will be the horse's second run in 2025, the best part of a month after his eye-catching third at Muswellbrook in a 1280m Benchmark 66. 'I was very happy with him,'' Wilkes said. 'He was probably a little bit on the fat side first-up but still found the line. 'The 1400m will suit him, it's just if he gets the right run.' Both Bellerata and Tanglewood Jimmy will be steered on Tuesday by Wilkes' talented apprentice jockey/daughter Shae, whose tally of winners has reached 60 in quick time, with 23 of those wins are shared with her father. Trainer Wilkes' third and final runner on the Muswellbrook card today is Sheila's Fanta Sea who boasts a tidy CV of two wins, three seconds and two thirds. Sheila's Fanta Sea will no doubt find Tuesday's assignment decidedly easier than her last start when pitched against all-comers from around the state in a 1200m Class 3 TAB Highway at Royal Randwick. 'She just goes up a little bit in weight but she comes back to the country,'' Wilkes said. 'I nominated her for Scone as well on Friday and this is quite a tough race but I don't expect Scone to be much easier. 'She's had a couple of goes at Scone and hasn't done well there, whereas she has placed twice at Muswellbrook the only times she's been there.' Sheila's Fanta Sea boasts a fascinating pedigree. Her fifth dam is none other than Sweet Embrace who still holds the somewhat dubious honour of being the longest priced winner of the Golden Slipper. The Jack and Bob Ingham owned daughter of inaugural Golden Slipper winner Todman was sent out at 40/1 when successfully shedding her maiden status in the 1967 renewal. â– â– â– â– â– Cleary wants a win for 'Uncle Gerry' Trainer Joe Cleary aims to deliver the man he affectionately knows as 'Uncle Gerry' a parting gift when blue-blooded mare Juliette's Joy makes what could very well be her final racetrack appearance on Tuesday. Juliette's Joy was bred by Gerry Harvey and foaled down in New Zealand. Not only is she a daughter of New Zealand's nine-times Champion Stallion Savabeel, she is from the same family as the Harvey-bred 2003 Golden Slipper winner Polar Success. 'The wet track won't worry her, she is rock hard fit, 2100m – there's more positives than negatives,'' Cleary says. 'I have taken the blinkers off her, she's just been getting a little bit revvy with the hoods on so hopefully she can just get back and relax and find the best part of the track. 'And I think that will be it for her on Tuesday. I think she heads home after (today). 'She's been a ripper. She really cops her work and she enjoys her work and her racing but it is that time of the year when Uncle Gerry wants his mares home and I think she'll be one of them.' 'Uncle Gerry' can reciprocate by handing Cleary a present of his own should the in-form Pretty Vegas cash in on Tuesday. A daughter of Exosphere, Pretty Vegas made her way to Cleary's Queanbeyan HQ from Harvey's Baramul Stud in the Hunter Valley via Adelaide when offered at the 2021 Magic Millions. 'She is super consistent,'' Cleary said. 'I just thought I would stay away from Saturday's Highway and try and find her a confidence booster and I think I've found the right race for her on Tuesday. ' Keagan (Latham) seems to ride her really well, they seem to have clicked, and she carries weight okay. 'An outside barrier won't be a hindrance with the way the track is going to play, so it is probably a bonus drawn out to be honest, and she has trained on well since her good effort in the Highway (June 21). The Canberra Raiders tragic will also saddle-up stablemates Pick A Symphony and Crazy Atom. 'Pick A Symphony has still got his L-Plates but he is going to be a nice horse,'' Cleary said. 'Crazy Atom is screaming out of a bit of a journey and a bit of juice in the track and she is going to get both.'
