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Victorian trainer Grahame Begg believes a wider draw holds the key to Magic Time becoming the first back-to-back winner of the All Aged Stakes since Rough Habit in 1992-93 on Saturday at Randwick.
The $1.5 million All Aged Stakes (1400m) and the Champagne Stakes (1600m) for two-year-olds are the final group 1s of the Sydney autumn carnival, and both appear open affairs.
Jordan Childs rides Magic Time to victory in the Expressway Stakes.Credit: Getty Images
Magic Time, a five-year-old Yulong-owned mare, won the All Aged on a bottomless track last year, after taking out the PJ Bell Stakes a year earlier on another heavy Randwick surface.
She returned to Randwick this time in with a sharp finish on a Good 4 to win the group 2 Expressway Stakes over 1200m, before coming a length away third in the group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m), then sixth, less two lengths behind winner Briasa, in the $3 million TJ Smith Stakes (1200m), again on dry tracks.
The two losses came after runs in behind the leader on the fence, the latest when jumping from gate one.
Begg welcomed a draw in barrier seven on Wednesday for the 14-horse race. Childs again has the ride.
Grahame Begg is confident Magic Time will perform, even on a dry track.Credit: Racing Photos
“It’s a good gate for her,” Begg said. “She got held up in the Canterbury Stakes in behind them, then the other day, the one barrier was a no-go zone, the way the track played. You’ve got to ride them out of their comfort zone the whole way, just to hold their position.
“Hopefully she will be in the first half-dozen this time, with a bit of clear air.”
Victorian trainer Grahame Begg believes a wider draw holds the key to Magic Time becoming the first back-to-back winner of the All Aged Stakes since Rough Habit in 1992-93 on Saturday at Randwick.
The $1.5 million All Aged Stakes (1400m) and the Champagne Stakes (1600m) for two-year-olds are the final group 1s of the Sydney autumn carnival, and both appear open affairs.
Jordan Childs rides Magic Time to victory in the Expressway Stakes.Credit: Getty Images
Magic Time, a five-year-old Yulong-owned mare, won the All Aged on a bottomless track last year, after taking out the PJ Bell Stakes a year earlier on another heavy Randwick surface.
She returned to Randwick this time in with a sharp finish on a Good 4 to win the group 2 Expressway Stakes over 1200m, before coming a length away third in the group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m), then sixth, less two lengths behind winner Briasa, in the $3 million TJ Smith Stakes (1200m), again on dry tracks.
The two losses came after runs in behind the leader on the fence, the latest when jumping from gate one.
Begg welcomed a draw in barrier seven on Wednesday for the 14-horse race. Childs again has the ride.
Grahame Begg is confident Magic Time will perform, even on a dry track.Credit: Racing Photos
“It’s a good gate for her,” Begg said. “She got held up in the Canterbury Stakes in behind them, then the other day, the one barrier was a no-go zone, the way the track played. You’ve got to ride them out of their comfort zone the whole way, just to hold their position.
“Hopefully she will be in the first half-dozen this time, with a bit of clear air.”
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