Group 1 victory has up to now eluded Arkansaw Child, however co-trainer Ben Hayes stays hopeful that the Blue Diamond placegetter can once more be a power on the highest degree.
The rest of the Harry Angel four-year-old’s profession can be carried out as a gelding, which Hayes expects to convey out the most effective in him.
Arkansaw Child gained an 800-metre Flemington jumpout on Friday morning, his second critical hitout of the marketing campaign, with Hayes buoyed by studies from high jockey Mark Zahra, who rode him thrice final season, together with his Group 2 Sandown Guineas (1600m) second putting.
“Mark Zahra mentioned he’s a special horse as a gelding and we’re very proud of him,” Hayes mentioned.
“I feel he’s obtained the power to have the ability to do it (at Group 1 degree) and I actually really feel as a gelding there’ll be an enormous change in him.”
Arkansaw Child gained the $500,000 Inglis Banner (1000m) on debut, along with his different win coming within the Listed Gothic Stakes (1200m), whereas he owns a Blue Diamond (1200m) third putting and a Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) fourth at Group 1 degree.
Hayes and his co-trainer brothers Will and JD are prone to launch Arkansaw Child’s marketing campaign on this Saturday’s $175,000 Listed Regal Curler Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield however they’re open to stepping him up in grade if he justifies the religion of the Lindsay Park trainers.
“We’ve all the time actually preferred him, he’s only a handsome horse, he’s obtained an excellent physique on him and he’s obtained the power,” he mentioned.
“He’s proven capacity at house and he’s transformed it to the racetrack as nicely.
“He’s now a gelding, he’s obtained loads of racing left in him and so they can enhance (as soon as gelded).”
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