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Sydney Morning Herald
07-08-2025
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
General Salute ready to fire for Clark in Missile Stakes
After this week trialling some of the nation's best staying prospects for the spring, jockey Tim Clark hopes an in-form sprinter from a handy draw can help deliver him the first NSW group race of the season at Randwick on Saturday. Clark rides General Salute for Rosehill trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou in the group 2 Missile Stakes, where the five-year-old Russian Revolution gelding is a $4 second elect with Sportsbet. The Joe Pride-trained favourite, Private Eye ($2.45), could instead trial at Warwick Farm on Friday and be saved for the PB Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield a week later, given the likely heavy track at Randwick. General Salute is untested on heavy ground, but has three wins and a second from four soft-track runs. Clark was aboard last start when General Salute came from well back in the group 3 WJ Healy Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm to finish third. It was Clark's first ride on General Salute, which hit the line again well for the jockey in a subsequent trial. Ryan believed a draw in gate one in a smaller field should have General Salute closer in the run on Saturday. 'He'll get back a little bit, but he'll be a lot handier from the draw,' Ryan said. 'If you look at his replays from Kembla and Rosehill, he drew a bit awkward and we went back on him. The other day at Eagle Farm it was the same. 'In a couple of his trials, [jockey] Tyler Schiller said if he ever draws three or four, he'll land a lot handier, and he did the other day in the trial. 'He'll run well and he'll have that residual fitness. His trial and work has been good, so happy with him.'
The Age
07-08-2025
- Sport
- The Age
General Salute ready to fire for Clark in Missile Stakes
After this week trialling some of the nation's best staying prospects for the spring, jockey Tim Clark hopes an in-form sprinter from a handy draw can help deliver him the first NSW group race of the season at Randwick on Saturday. Clark rides General Salute for Rosehill trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou in the group 2 Missile Stakes, where the five-year-old Russian Revolution gelding is a $4 second elect with Sportsbet. The Joe Pride-trained favourite, Private Eye ($2.45), could instead trial at Warwick Farm on Friday and be saved for the PB Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield a week later, given the likely heavy track at Randwick. General Salute is untested on heavy ground, but has three wins and a second from four soft-track runs. Clark was aboard last start when General Salute came from well back in the group 3 WJ Healy Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm to finish third. It was Clark's first ride on General Salute, which hit the line again well for the jockey in a subsequent trial. Ryan believed a draw in gate one in a smaller field should have General Salute closer in the run on Saturday. 'He'll get back a little bit, but he'll be a lot handier from the draw,' Ryan said. 'If you look at his replays from Kembla and Rosehill, he drew a bit awkward and we went back on him. The other day at Eagle Farm it was the same. 'In a couple of his trials, [jockey] Tyler Schiller said if he ever draws three or four, he'll land a lot handier, and he did the other day in the trial. 'He'll run well and he'll have that residual fitness. His trial and work has been good, so happy with him.'
