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Wednesday 3rd DECEMBER - WARWICK FARM

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STEEL STRIKE - Race 6, 1200M, A Hyeronimus 59.5kg

Adrian and I are delighted with Steel Strike ahead of his first-up run. He has had two solid trials at Randwick which have given him a good fitness grounding, so he's certainly returning to the races in fine fettle. He's drawn to the outside in barrier 11, so Adam will be positive from there to try and get across into a more favourable inside position and we envisage him settling in the first quarter of the field so he should hopefully get a nice tow into the race. He'll appreciate stretching out over slightly further as he gets deeper into his campaign, but 1200 metres is a very suitable starting point for him. He's been off the track for a while, but looking back through his two year old runs he has form around subsequent Group 1 winner Private Life as well as Depth Of Character, who's won a Group 2 and recently finished a close fourth in the $10mil. Golden Eagle. As such, whilst he'll no doubt take plenty of benefit from this run he's a talented horse who's lightly raced, so we ultimately think he's better than this grade and we hope to see him go close to get his preparation off to an exciting start.