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TUESDAY 13th JANUARY - MUSWELLBROOK

Rail Position: True

BELLARATA - Race 3, 3.05pm, 1280m, Z Wadick, 57kg
Bellarata is pleasing us ahead of her first start. She’s had seven career trials so whilst she’s conceding experience to all bar one of her rivals, she is well-educated and knows her job. Zac will be positive from barrier 8 to try and roll forward and take luck out of the equation, and we think she’ll be well suited by the set-up of 1280 metres around this track. She’s kicking off at a realistic level, and we hope to see her fighting out the finish.

WEDNESDAY 14th JANUARY - KENSINGTON

Rail Position: +3m 1600m-W/Post, +1m Remainder

FARFETCHED - Race 1, 2.20pm, 1000m, T Clark, 55kg
Farfetched is thriving ahead of her first career start. Her two trials this preparation have been excellent, and she showed a terrific attitude to pin her ears back and stick her neck out gamely when winning her most recent one before the turn of the year. She’s continued to improve since then, and she couldn’t be delighting us more ahead of this outing. She’s drawn to do no work in barrier 1, but this can turn from a blessing to a curse if she doesn’t jump on terms as the other runners will cross her and result in her being shuffled back in the field. However, she’s shown plenty of dash in her trials so we expect her to jump smartly and roll forward to put herself on the speed and make her own luck from there. 1000 metres will be as short as she wants it, so she will improve as she gets out in trip deeper into her preparation. However, this is a lovely starting point for her against her own age group on her home track, and with even luck in running we hope to see her fighting out the finish to get her career off to an exciting start.