Poetic Prince canters to win at Waverley
PA Waverley Poetic Prince had little more than a working gallop cantering away with the Clarendon Hotel, Three Year Old at Waverley yesterday and his trip to Melbourne was confirmed after the race. "I’ll probably go over on October 5 or 6, I’m not quite sure yet, and run
him in the Caulfield Guineas on the twelfth,” co-trainer John Wheeler said. “If he performs well in the Guineas we’ll start in the Cox Plate.” Wheeler said a run in the sAust6oo,ooo VRC Derby (2500 m is also a possibility but everything will depend on Poetic Prince’s performance in the $300,000 Caulfield
Guineas (1600 m "If he can’t win or at least run very well we’ll be coming straight home.” Wheeler said the colt’s New Plymouth owners, Warren Bolton and Gary Pratt, had received several offers for the horse from both sides of the Tasman. Poetic Prince’s regular rider Noel Harris will handle the colt during his
Australian campaign. He has previously ridden in the Caulfield Guineas, finishing third on Bill Winder’s Prince Shifnal. The locally-trained Grey Tribute chased Poetic Prince home yesterday, but could make little impression on him in the straight. Manganui Miss was third with Touch of Silver a disappointing fourth.
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