Late-season black type lures interstate trainers to Adelaide
The Age
Friday July 10, 2009
THE lure of a late-season juvenile black-type race in Adelaide tomorrow has proven irresistible for a number of the country's leading stables with interstate-based trainers Lee Freedman, Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh and Jason Coyle all represented in the $100,000 listed Dequetteville Stakes.Leading local trainers David Hayes, Leon Macdonald and Richard Jolly are also chasing black-type status for their youngsters with Jolly to saddle up the likely favourite, I'm Discreet.The Elusive Quality filly has won at both her starts and tomorrow looks set to continue her incredible family history by becoming a stakes performer.Bred by South Australian Jockey Club chairman David Peacock, I'm Discreet is out of the Euclase mare She's Discreet, who, on top of being a black-type winner of more than $120,000 in prizemoney herself on the racetrack, has now produced six named foals - all of whom have won.She's Discreet is out of the Don't Say Halo mare Halo Again, who was a handy city performer in Adelaide in the early 1990s but has since become an outstanding broodmare.Of Halo Again's seven named foals to race, all are metropolitan winners and five of them - Be Discreet, Gilded Angel, My Advocator, Oahu and She's Discreet - are stakes winners. Six of the seven foals also accrued more than $100,000 in prizemoney.TOUGH AS STONETRAINER Robert Smerdon has no qualms about lining up his luckless two-year-old Stoneblack for the 11th run of his campaign in tomorrow's Inglis Bonus at Betfair Park."He's working really well and he's just had no luck at all in his career," Smerdon said of the maiden galloper. "He should have won a few races by now, including his last run at Flemington, but he just hasn't had the luck. All the same, he's got a remarkable constitution."Stoneblack was caught wide but battled on strongly when beaten by Take The Rap at his latest run.After two runs last spring, Stoneblack has raced 11 times since February after having two trials at Cranbourne. He has been placed at seven of those outings and has earned his owners $111,000 in prizemoney.END OF A LONG WEIGHTHE may not have won a race since his Ballarat Cup success in 2006 but Rubijon may have his best chance to again break through at Betfair Park tomorrow, over 2100 metres.The last time Rubijon got to a similar trip he ran second to Blutigeroo in the 2007 Hobart Cup and after his two-kilogram claim he gets in with 56 kilograms - the lightest weight he has carried for almost three years. It is worth noting he has missed a place just once in nine runs on slow and heavy tracks.
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