Comeback gelding out to keep stable rolling

We Built This City out to add to Paul Nolan’s winning trot at Clifford Park tomorrow.

Jockey Kenji Yoshida will partner We Built This City at Clifford Park tomorrow.

RACING : Plenty of Clifford Park punters will be banking tomorrow on comeback gelding We Built This City adding to Toowoomba trainer Paul Nolan’s (Jnr) impressive recent winning trot.

We Built This City continues his return to racing after a 14-month injury break in the Richard Adams Homes Class 5 Handicap (1200m) with Kenji Yoshida to ride.

The seven-year-old resumed at Clifford Park on December 21 with a solid-finishing third, after appearing the likely winner at the 200-metre mark, behind Mishani El Lobo and Boom Boy in a Benchmark 72 Handicap (1110m).

Nolan led in a winning race-to-race double on last Friday’s Clifford Park card with both Keep On Loving You and Higher Love scoring strongly.

Their wins extended Nolan’s winning tally to six from only 12 runners since December 14.

Nolan is hopeful We Built This City can join the stable’s winning roll tomorrow.

But he is cautious about placing too many expectations on the gelding as he continues his comeback to racing from a career-threatening suspensory ligament injury.

“We are enjoying a nice little run at the moment,” Nolan said yesterday.

“The horses are all happy and we’re spacing their runs a little hoping to keep them enjoying racing and things have been working out well for them.

“But I know runs like ours at the moment don’t last forever - I’ve been in this game too long.

“Sometimes things fall into place and sometimes they don’t so it’s a matter of enjoying them when they come along.”

We Built This City was “retired” at the end of 2018 before some care, patience and aligning stars led him back to the track.

“His first-up run was really good after 14 months off and he almost pulled off a fairytale,” Nolan said

“When he did his suspensory ligament badly back in 2018 we retired him.

“I tried to find him a home, but the way the drought was no one could take him.

“So we kept him around the stable exercising and lasering him until we discovered his leg had recovered well enough to put him back into work.

“He’s one of my favourite horses and so far, so good.

“He’s still got a way to go fitness-wise and I’m more hopeful than anything he could maybe win on Saturday.”