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Waterhouse And Munce Brisbane
Carnival Bound
CHAMPION Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse and jockey
Chris Munce, who combined to win four races at Randwick
over the Anzac weekend, are heading to Brisbane for
the carnival opener at NCF Doomben.
Their assault on Saturday will be spearheaded by
last season’s champion two-year-old, Hasna,
in the Group 3 Richmond Grove BTC Classic and So
Assertive in the G3 Doomben Carnival Cup.
So Assertive, which ran second to the John O’Shea-trained
On A High in the Listed JRA Plate at Randwick on
April 12, is being set for the XXXX G1 Doomben Cup
on May 29.
Waterhouse and Munce, who combined to win the Golden
Slipper and Champagne Stakes with Magic Millions
winner Dance Hero, landed a treble at Randwick on
Saturday.
Two of those winners, National Treasure and Martique,
will soon join her strong stable team in Brisbane.
A Zabeel mare, National Treasure was retired to
Darley Stud last year after failing to recapture
her best form in the spring. She failed to get in
foal and connections sent her back to Waterhouse.
National Treasure repaid that decision with a win
in Saturday’s $100,000 Topaz Plate at Randwick
at only her third run back.
Waterhouse plans to set her for the G2 Carlton Draught
Prime Minister’s Cup at the Gold Coast on May
15.
The beautifully-bred Martique, by Danehill out of
1998 Melbourne Cup runner-up Champagne, is being
aimed at the G1 Joe Richards Menswear Queensland
Oaks at Eagle Farm on June 5.
Exciting colt King’s Chapel spearheads the
early Kiwi invasion on the Brisbane carnival and
will contest Saturday’s BTC Classic for the
three-year-olds.
Stablemate Distinctly Secret has been entered for
the Doomben Carnival Cup. Both will be ridden by
top New Zealand jockey, Opie Bosson, who plans to
base himself in Queensland for the winter.
Randwick trainer, David Payne, has Saturday’s
BTC Classic earmarked as the comeback race for his
star filly Unearthly.
She gave Payne his first G1 winner in Australia
in the Flight Stakes last spring but has not started
since finishing seventh in the G1 Thousand Guineas
in October.
QUEENSLAND Racing web news: John Lingard – April
27.
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