23 March 2023 | HRNSW MEDIA | AMANDA RANDO
Berkshire Park mentor Wayne Dimech is chasing one of the biggest wins of his career on Saturday night.
The 65-year-old has qualified his pacer Naturally Gifted for the $100,000 Gold Chalice Final at Bathurst.
After finishing second in the NSW Derby, Naturally Gifted won his Gold Chalice heat last week in a career best mile rate of 1:53.4 – the fastest of four qualifiers.
Naturally Gifted is third in betting markets at $9 for the feature.
However, before Dimech turns his focus to Bathurst, he has dual starters at Penrith tonight.
Penrith has been fruitful for Dimech over the years and in particular the last two weeks where he has trained winners at the last two Penrith meetings.
Dimech trained a double last week with Yankee Merrywood and Merrywood Paul and both pacers will race each other in race seven tonight.
The iForm best bets for Thursday:
Penrith best bet
Race 2: Tisbury Rocks (2)
Bold front running exhibition first up for the new yard and will take some stopping again.
Penrith next best
Race 6: Dreamy Castafiore (7)
Showed enough in decent company last week to rate highly getting luck later.
Around the tracks
Tamworth best bet
Race 2: Tulhurst Blaster (8)
Gets a big class drop and that looks more than enough to make him hard to beat.
Play the exotics
The Penrith quaddie
Race 5: 2
Race 6: 7-6-5-3
Race 7: 5-8-3-4-9
Race 8: 3-7-1-10
$80 for 100%
To view the complete iForm for both meetings click here.
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