Trainer Chris Waller’s wet worries ahead of crucial Joliestar trial
Trainer Chris Waller is hopeful Sydney’s big wet eases long enough for brilliant mare Joliestar to compete in a crucial Canterbury barrier trial on Tuesday.
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Trainer Chris Waller is hopeful Sydney’s big wet eases long enough for brilliant mare Joliestar to compete in a crucial Canterbury barrier trial on Tuesday.
Waller is using the 900m heat to prepare Joliestar for the Group 1 $1 million Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm on May 31 where the mare is currently the $4 TAB Fixed Odds favourite.
But the Canterbury trials session, which has already been postponed from Monday due to heavy rainfall, is in some doubt given the weather forecast is not encouraging.
If Joliestar doesn’t get to go around at Canterbury, Waller has a fallback option of trialling at Rosehill on Friday.
A number of other Brisbane carnival contenders are also due to trial at Canterbury including Hawkesbury Guineas winner Media World, unbeaten Clarendon Stakes winner Aerodrome, and promising three-year-old Angel Capital.
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The wet weather which has lashed the NSW coast in the last 48 hours resulted in the postponement of Monday’s Port Macquarie meeting.
Newcastle’s track surface is already a heavy 10 for Tuesday’s meeting with club officials hoping there isn’t too much rainfall overnight.
Tamworth is also hosting a Tuesday raceday with the track in the soft range late on Monday.
Warwick Farm is already a heavy 10 ahead of Wednesday’s seven-race program and Wyong is also extremely heavy for the Thursday provincial meeting.
Racing returns to Royal Randwick on Saturday for the first time in a month with the track rated a heavy 9 late on Monday and rain forecast for Sydney all week.
Despite the certainty of a wet track at Randwick, there was a bumper 244 nominations for the 10-race program on Saturday.
In a proactive move, Racing NSW moved Friday’s Coffs Harbour meeting to Inverell where conditions are much drier.
Originally published as Trainer Chris Waller’s wet worries ahead of crucial Joliestar trial
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