Punters searching for the winner of the second heat of the Ken Casellas Warwick Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night would be best advised to disregard the last placing of Three Pints in a race last Friday, according to Serpentine trainer Matt Scott.
“He can win this week,” Scott said. “He had a freshen-up and had five weeks away from the track before he reappeared last week when he raced in eighth place and was shuffled back in the field on a wet track. He never got clear.
“This week he has drawn a lot better (No. 2 on the front line over 2130m) and he’ll have a red hot go for the lead. The last time he led in town was nine starts ago when he won, running home in 56.9sec.
“He’s a different horse in front. He always tries, but when he is back in the field he doesn’t go as well as he does when he’s near the lead. He pulled up well after last week’s run and looks well.”
Three Pints, a Mach Three six-year-old, is out of former star mare Cornsilk, who raced 152 times for 43 wins, 39 placings and $555,046 in prizemoney. Cornsilk raced once in WA, finishing second to Pharosan in the WA Oaks at Gloucester Park in May 2000.
Three Pints, to be driven by Callan Suvaljko, is a real family affair, according to Scott. “I own him in partnership with Tony Maguire, my parents, two of my aunties, two uncles, my sister and my future brother-in-law,” he said.
“We claimed Jaccka Murphy and Jaxon Fella from the same stable in Victoria and I got a phone call from the stable, telling me that they wanted to sell Three Pints and lease Suspicious Behavia. So we bought Three Pints for $12,000 and I took the lease of Suspicious Behavia with my girlfriend and a couple of friends.”
The Michael Brennan-trained Awesum Teddy drops considerably in class and will have many admirers from the coveted No. 1 barrier. Other runners likely to be strongly supported include Jumbo Jet (a winner at 11 of his 28 starts and resuming after an absence of just over three months) and 11-year-old Schinzig Buller, who raced wide early and then in the breeze when a fighting second to Run Oneover at Gloucester Park on Tuesday of last week.
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