Gai Waterhouse | Gai Waterhouse News 63340 Playing By The Rules

Emma Reeves aids us with programming and identifies who she thinks is the best placed horse each weekend. 

Supermassive, Saturday 20th June, Randwick, Race 10: 

Supermassive. This is actually a bit of a rulebreaker but an interesting story. He’s raced and beaten older horses in town in three of his seven lifetime starts, which is a tough thing to do. He faces a new challenge here and has to take them on in Saturday city grade, but he’s a rapidly improving gelding who rarely runs a bad race.

Ten days ago he was nominated for both a midweek and a Saturday race, both in town, and he rated well in each. The temptation was there to jump straight into the riches of the Saturday race, but we felt like this was his last opportunity before being weighted out of the midweeks and securing an easier kill. While the winning margin was narrow, he ran his best rating this preparation, putting him right in the frame in this grade.

If he handles this slightly tighter turnaround and continues to improve the way he has this preparation, I think he will fight out the finish once again.