Gai Waterhouse | Gai Waterhouse News 63340 Playing By The Rules

Bear On The Loose, Friday 20th March, Albury, Race 7: I’m really excited about a number of our runners this weekend but I’ve gone with one of my favourite themes again this week, the country cups. I wrote about this gelding three weeks ago so I won’t go over his form around the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winner again.

He’s such a consistent galloper and has now finished in the top four in ten of his twelve starts for us, so he thoroughly deserves another win. With the Sydney Autumn Carnival in full swing, we felt the best way to get that win on the board was to take a slight detour and head to Albury for this $200,000 Listed race.

He drops right down in the weights, has form on wet tracks and is rock hard fit third up. From the wide barrier he should roll forward and I think he’ll still have enough sprint left in his legs, which he’ll need as he sticks to the 2000 metres. I think this might just be his day.