Gundagai preview: Trainer Danielle Seib on the road to success at Gundagai

Trainer Danielle Seib takes several of the stable’s most progressive and promising types away to Gundagai on Tuesday including the well-bred Ziggy Rose.

Danielle Seib has some great chances at Gundagai on Tuesday

SEVEN-TIME Highway winner Danielle Seib will be on the road to Gundagai on Tuesday armed with a trio of lightly-raced gallopers which could soon add to the tally.

Tuesday’s meeting marks the debut of the Bowness Stud bred filly Ziggy Rose which will have plenty of admirers, particularly among avid trial watchers, when she steps out in the Kosciuszko Tickets On Sale Now Maiden Plate (1400m).

“She has just continued to improve and I was really happy with her trial,” Seib said.

FIELDS AND FORM GUNDAGAI TUESDAY

“She seems quite straight-forward. She jumped into the bridle and could have been where Coriah (Keatings) wanted her.

“I think an improving track on Tuesday should suit her, albeit she is a big filly and it isn’t an overly big track, but she is quite a balanced horse and it is not a strong race by any means.

“She is bred to get over a trip which I think is why her trial and her jump-outs preceding that have been quite encouraging because she has shown that she can travel over those shorter trips so she should be competitive.’’

Ziggy Rose, a grey like her father, is from the first crop of Rosehill Guineas winner D’Argento.

A $90,000 Inglis Classic Yearling purchase in 2023, Ziggy Rose’s dam, Zoffany Rose’s three career wins came at 2200 and 2400m.

Owner/breeder Charles Cropper’s familiar maroon and gold colours could well be flying high at Gundagai on Tuesday when the home-bred Ghost Walker opens his second preparation in the Tooheys Country Boosted Maiden Handicap (1180m).

Trainer Danielle Seib

“He is a really nice horse,” Seib says.

“It was all just a bit too soon for him - mentally - last preparation.

“He is a very big horse and he was doing a few things wrong last preparation so we gave him that second run over a shorter trip when he was really looking to step out in distance but he was just racing a little bit fierce and we wanted him to do things right so it was a good grounding preparation.

“He has come back a lot more mature mentally and physically.

“His trial was outstanding and he seemed to take it all in his stride and be very positive in his attitude so he should be very hard to beat on Tuesday.’’

Seib meanwhile also had the option of Moruya on Monday or Canterbury on Wednesday to kick off the well-bred Motorboat’s second campaign but found Gundagai on Tuesday an offer too good to refuse.

“We elected to go there on Tuesday instead of Moruya on Monday due to the fact that all the speed is drawn outside us there so we should be in front on the rails and very hard to run past,’’ Seib added.

Motorboat showed herself to be both progressive and talented at her first preparation which culminated with a decisive all the way in the Central West on May 7.

“She won with a bit in hand at Wellington and did it professionally in a good manner too for a horse that is another one that we had to take our time with because she has just been a bit slow-maturing mentally,’’ the trainer said.

Longer trips await the Irish-bred Roman Hands which will accompany his three more-fancied stablemates on the 360 km Goulburn to Gundagai round-trip where he has first start as a gelding in the National Jockeys Trust Class 2 Handicap (1400m).

“He was still kind of acclimatising a bit last preparation,’’ Seib says. “He will get out over further but this is a nice starting point for him and he looks terrific.’’

Originally published as Gundagai preview: Trainer Danielle Seib on the road to success at Gundagai