Gold Coast three-year-old Sneaky Glance chases Grafton Guineas

GANGLY gelding Sneaky Glance is headed to the Grafton Guineas after making it three wins from three starts for Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds.

Sneaky Glance wins on the Gold Coast ahead of his Doomben success yesterday. Photo: Richard Gosling

GANGLY gelding Sneaky Glance is headed to the Grafton Guineas after making it three wins from three starts for Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds.

Sneaky Glance responded to hard riding from Jeff Lloyd to give Edmonds his 60th metropolitan win for the season in the Gallopers Club Handicap (1660m) at Doomben yesterday.

“He is unbeaten for us since coming from Sydney and he is getting better with racing. Today was his test at 1600 metres which is the Grafton Guineas distance,” Edmonds said.

“I thought he was in trouble at the 600 but when he got going he picked them up quickly. He is a big gangly horse and he is maturing with racing.”

The Grafton Guineas is on July 12.

■ IMPROVING Gold Coast two-year-old DIOMEDES has had to survive a protest before continuing his sire Golden Archer’s great start to his stud career.

Diomedes became Golden Archer’s eighth Australian winner and ninth overall when he won the Mount Franklin 2YO Plate (1350m) yesterday.

Brad Pengelly on second-placed Naked fired in a protest alleging Robbie Fradd on Diomedes had checked him at the 75m mark.

“Robbie came out and I had to take hold. If he doesn’t do that I run on and beat him by a half length,” Pengelly said.

Fradd said he had moved out but had taken hold of his horse and would have won by further than the three-quarter length margin if he had not steadied.

Stewards agreed Fradd had shifted his ground but thought the interference was minor and dismissed the protest.

A former top juvenile when trained by Peter Moody in Melbourne, Golden Archer has been standing at stud at Raheen on the Darling Downs.

Studmaster Basil Nolan said it had been a great first season for the Group-winning stallion.

“He has had eight winners in Australia and one in Singapore. I think even better is to come,” Nolan said.

Diomedes, who cost $40,000 as a yearling, continued a long run of success for owner Tony Valos and the Bryan and Daniel Guy training combination.

“Tony is our longest standing owner and he has been great for us,” Daniel Guy said.

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■ JOCKEY Tegan Harrison won’t be letting frontrunner Court’s Star out of her sight for long after they combined to run the field into the ground in the Giddy Up Club Handicap (1660m).

It was Court Star’s sixth win taking his prizemoney to $202,000 and earning him a spell after 11 months of racing.

Court Star had led to the 200m in the Listed Ipswich Cup at his previous start before fading to finish sixth.

“He has been in work since last August except for ten days off for Christmas. So he deserves a break after today,” Wilcox said.

“Court’s Star is actually going out to Tegan’s property for a spell so she can keep an eye on him.”

■ TRAINER Chris Anderson cemented his relationship with Dato Tan Chin Nam’s Think Big Stud when Datuk Zedragon won the maiden (2200m).

“There aren’t many better bred horses than Datuk Zedragon as his dam Zazabelle ran third in a Melbourne Cup,” Anderson said.

He has several other horses for the stud including the handy Subsolar and Colour of Money.