Queen Of Wands set for big month of racing that could include a run in Tattersall’s Tiara

QUEEN Of Wands will contest the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic in a fortnight with training partners Bryan and Daniel Guy not ruling out a crack at the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara.

Michael Cahill on Queen Of Wands during the winter carnival last year. Picture: Annette Dew

QUEEN Of Wands will contest the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic in a fortnight with training partners Bryan and Daniel Guy not ruling out a crack at the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara.

The four-year-old mare enjoyed a perfect start to her career under the Guys when she outclassed the field to win the Saltram Class 3 Plate (1400m) at the Gold Coast

on Saturday.

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Gold Coast-based Bryan Guy said the $100,000 Gai Waterhouse Classic (1350m) at Ipswich on June 17 was their main focus for one of their newest stable additions.

The $500,000 Tatts Tiara (1350m) is on a week later

at Doomben.

“It was a good run first-up and she trialled quite good beforehand,” Guy said.

“Our idea was to have a crack at the Gai Waterhouse Classic.

“We will see how she goes in that and then we will decide where we go after.

“If she goes good and wins that I’d probably have a crack at the Tatts Tiara.

“She would have to show us at the Waterhouse that she is up to that.”

Queen Of Wands won three races and was twice placed at Group 3 level while trained in Sydney by Clarry Conners but had not been successful for 13 months.

“She has got ability, it’s just that we have to find it with her,” Guy said.

“She found the line very strong (on Saturday) and ran home in a very quick time (34.80).”

Guy said he was happy to take the training of the Not A Single Doubt mare on and she had settled in at the Gold Coast well.

“She is only a little thing,” Guy said.

“She is a podgy thing. She is terrific eater and you can’t fill her up.

“She looks like she needs to run all the time but she is a lovely mare.”

Guy said he would keep Queen Of Wands in races around 1350m for now and he believed she would go on to win more races.

“At the moment we are concentrating around the 1350m to 1400m mark with her because they are the races we are looking at,”

Guy said.

“But you never know in the future. “There is a lot of races there for her that we could place for her coming back a bit.

“We don’t have to put her in Listed races. As long as we can win races for us.”

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