By Ray Hickson
Trainer Gavin Bedggood makes a lot of rainy dance for his Hardy Galoper -Folk to get his best chance to appear on Saturday as Doncaster Mile candidate in Rosehill.
Trainer Gavin Bedggood (Image: Bradley photos).
The eight-year-old is on the border to create the 20-horsepower field for group 1 of the next week, but Bedggood said that the view of a humid route for group 3 $ 250,000 racing and sports-Doncaster preludes (1500 m) gives him the opportunity to stand back.
Just Folk has won two out of 22 starts on good ground, but seven out of 23 on pliable and ponderous traces, so that the trainer wants to operate the available advantage natural and the forecast excited it.
“He is a practical galoper, but he goes to another level when he comes on ponderous soil,” said Bedggood.
“If you run in ponderous traces, half handle and do not. He gets up for speed and his own happiness and makes it hard for horses that do not deal with it to follow him.
“If you take out his last start, he is never bad for me, he was a great money spinner for connections and he owes us nothing.
“With the right conditions, it will be very competitive on Saturday.”
It was a month ago that since Just Folk, 12 US dollars with Tab on Wednesday, only a horse home in the guilty representatives (1600 m) in Flemington, but his trainer quickly forgotten.
He had shown with his efforts in the Supernova First-Up and when he reached a pliable 6-second second in Flemington, he was almost never before and since his last start he has won a reverse direction jump in Cranbourne.
“He was obviously clearly below the first start in Flemington, but he made himself very, very bad,” he said.
“I said to the owners that we have to keep and wait until the weather turns and we get a pliable 6 or worse.
“We thought he went very well with Pakenham First-up, it was a good floor that day, but Pakenham is a track that has a good pillow.
“He probably exceeded all expectations that day, he was only half fit and the race was a bit afterwards and ran very well on suitable ground.
“He would be between the runs for four weeks and he got a sturdy floor for an opposite attempt last week, and Jamie Mott got out of him and thought he had tested great.”
The gelding has 54 kg in the Doncaster Mile and Bedggood said that he would ask Tommy Berry to be positive from his barrier and either sit at the pace.
“The plan is that it stays up and stays in the Doncaster), there is not much for him in the Sydney carnival if we don't,” he said.
The last victory of the people on June 1 at the Eagle Farm on June 1st
“We will not add a broad tie, we have a horse that is fit and have the opportunity to sit down on speed, and hopefully the route will run similarly last Saturday.”
Bedggood said that he would probably follow a way like last year with only folk and go to the Hawkesbury Cup of Group 3, which he won before going to Queensland.
All fields, shape and repetitions for the day of operation in Rosehill
