Picture: Steve Hart
A cultured Peter Snowden-trained mare will make a welcome return at Rosehill.
Stakes placegetter August Bloom is about to make a low key return in a benchmark race at Rosehill as coach Peter Snowden seems to get her racing profession again on monitor.
Positioned within the Magic Night time Stakes (1200m) at two, August Bloom battled muscle points throughout her three-year-old season, proscribing her to only 4 begins.
Her solely look throughout the autumn yielded a fifth behind Facile within the P J Bell Stakes (1200m) at Randwick when she was doing her finest work late and Snowden is hoping she will be able to get again to an analogous stage.
“I’d actually prefer to assume so,” Snowden mentioned.
“She has at all times had good means so I’d prefer to see her realise that now that she is a bit older and hopefully that may occur.
“She had a few setbacks, however she is again on monitor now.”
A daughter of Extra Than Prepared, August Bloom has been readied for her return with two barrier trials and regarded sharp successful her most up-to-date 1045m warmth at Randwick.
Her sole win in seven begins got here first-up at Hawkesbury final yr and Snowden expects her to be ahead sufficient to make her presence felt in Saturday’s Captivant @ Kia Ora Handicap (1300m) at Rosehill.
“Two good trials have gotten her able to go,” he mentioned.
This weekend’s assembly would be the first Sydney Saturday fixture in a number of months not headlined by a characteristic race with 10 benchmark occasions programmed, together with the Petaluma Handicap (1200m) that includes a conflict between unbeaten three-year-olds Personal Harry and Theblade.
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