Trainer Scott Morrisey says weight will be Wack’em’s biggest challenge today at the Gold Coast

TRAINER Scott Morrisey says the greatest challenge to Wack’em’s bid to win back-to-back races on the Gold Coast will come from carrying 59kg of weight on a wet track.

Wack'em runs second to Mistral Thief at Doomben. Picture: Trackside Photography.

TRAINER Scott Morrisey says the greatest challenge to Wack’em’s bid to win back-to-back races on the Gold Coast will come from carrying 59kg on a heavy track.

Wack’em, in some of the best form of his career, will take another step up in grade in the Class 3 Plate (1400m) today.

The four-year-old gelding carried 59kg to win a Gold Coast Class 2 (1300m) on a good track on May 27.

“He is in a good place at the moment and I’m very happy with him,” Morrisey said of Wack’em who carried 58.8kg to win over 1200m on a Heavy 8 surface at the Gold Coast in January.

“He will carry a little bit of weight which he deserves and he will love the wet but whether something down in the weights knocks him off only time will tell.

“He will still be very competitive but it’s always a worry on those extremely heavy tracks but he couldn’t be better himself.”

The Gold Coast track was rated a Heavy 10 yesterday after receiving 137mm of rain in the past week.

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Wack’em has continued to surpass expectations since the former winter carnival hope fell ill and got an abscess on the lung in 2015 that nearly killed him.

“Before he got that abscess in the lung he was looking like the best horse to come out of the stable,” Morrisey said.

“He will never be in that form again but since his illness you would have to say this has been his best preparation.”

“The abscess will always be there but it’s just whether he has learnt to handle it a bit better.”

Wack’em has raced seven times, securing two wins and three seconds, during his current preparation and has shown no signs of slowing down.

“He is a horse that likes to be a little on the fresh side,” Morrisey said.

“That is probably why you get so many runs of out of him in the preparation.

“He is showing no signs of wanting the paddock at the moment so we will just keep poking along.

“Hopefully he will still be competitive and after the (Brisbane winter) carnival he can maybe go to a metropolitan meeting in town.

“I’d love to see him win a race in town on a Saturday.”