Trainer to watch Mongolian Marshal from home Posted by: RS NewsWire+ at 1:51pm on 10/6/2021 Image: Bruno Cannatelli
Stuart Gower will remain in Adelaide as Mongolian Marshal struts his stuff at Sandown
Adelaide-based Stuart Gower has sent his promising middle-distance galloper Mongolian Marshal to Melbourne for a race at Sandown but is reluctant to follow suit.
Gower fears he will be forced to undergo a 14-day quarantine when he returns home if he came to Melbourne to saddle Mongolian Marshal in the Ladbrokes Bet Ticker Handicap (1800m) on Saturday.
Instead, he will entrust the Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra stable to saddle the gelding on Saturday, just as they did when the gelding won the Kyneton Cup last November.
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7 winners, inc:-
6 wins to 1400m, A$226,900, VATC Sandown S.,
Gr.3, VRC Maggi Coles H., VATC Beau Gem H., 2d SAJC Goodwood H.,
Gr.1, VATC Japan Racing Association S.,
L, Bounding Away H.,
L, Red Terror H., 3d VATC Kenvain H., Gardenvale 2YO H., Samuel Griffiths H., 4th VATC Blue Diamond Preview,
Gr.3.
2 wins-1 at 2-at 1000m, AJC Inglis Insurance 2YO H., 2d VRC Ottawa S.,
L, STC Masterton Homes 2YO H., 3d BTC Brisbane Legacy H. Producer.
Silverbeat (f Distant Music) Placed at 2 & 3, 2d MRC Blue Diamond Preview (f),
L. Dam of 4 winners-
UPBEAT (g Strategic)
6 wins-1 at 2-from 1250m to 1850m, A$345,500, MRC Autumn Classic,
Portland Sky showed a lot can change in four weeks when he led throughout to beat bigger names in the Group 3 Manfred Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.
Nothing went Portland Sky’s way during a terrible trip to Queensland, which ended when he ran last in the Group 3 Vo Rogue Plate (1400m) on the troubled Eagle Farm track on January.
Getting back to Victoria and dropping back to 1200m made a huge difference to Portland Sky at Caulfield.
Portland Sky was simply too good for Aysar and Tagaloa today. @mattlaurierace@MelbRacingClub Racing.com (@Racing) January 30, 2021
Jockey Luke Currie controlled the Manfred Stakes on the Matt Laurie-trained colt before Portland Sky ($9) held off the Caulfield Guineas runner-up Aysar ($2.50 fav) and last year’s Blue Diamond Stakes winner Tagaloa ($2.90) to score by three-quarters of a length.