Lost And Running could be in The Everest today if negotiations go smoothly after a slot holder told connections they wanted him for the $15 million race in October.
And Pike‘s Group 1 rides in South Australia next Saturday are also in doubt.
Pike had been booked to ride Flexible for Godolphin in the Australasian Oaks and Sisstar for Tony and Calvin McEvoy in the Robert Sangster Stakes.
The following week, Pike and his young family were set to jet to the Gold Coast for The Coast‘s big meeting of the winter carnival which features Doomben Cup aspirants running in the Group 2 Hollindale Stakes.
Pike has been booked to ride Fifty Stars in the Hollindale. Fifty Stars showed he was on track to pluck some Queensland racing riches when finishing only a length and a half off Kolding in the Group 1 All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Border closures threaten William Pike s much-awaited Queensland trip by Ben Dorries William Pike is currently in limbo Image: NewsCorp
Willie Pike s billing as a star attraction at the start of the Queensland winter racing carnival has been thrown into doubt due to the state border closures sparked by the snap COVID lockdown in Perth.
And Pike‘s Group 1 rides in South Australia next Saturday are also in doubt.
Pike had been booked to ride Flexible for Godolphin in the Australasian Oaks and Sisstar for Tony and Calvin McEvoy in the Robert Sangster Stakes.
The following week, Pike and his young family were set to jet to the Gold Coast for The Coast‘s big meeting of the winter carnival which features Doomben Cup aspirants running in the Group 2 Hollindale Stakes.
The Randwick track not good enough on Queen Elizabeth Stakes day
OUTSTANDING DAY’S RACING BUT SURFACE DISAPPOINTING
The question most people were asking after Saturday at Randwick was if the “track was prepared to aid Addeybb?”
I criticised the Caulfield track on Blue Diamond Stakes day when horses had to race off the rail to find the best going on a surface rated a good (4), so it is only fair I also ask the same questions about Randwick being rated a good (4) last Saturday.
If it is good it should not be uneven.
Jockeys and punters alike considered the track in the slow range after the first at Randwick and I bet William Haggas, watching 17,000km away at Newmarket in the UK had the giggles when he saw the cut in the ground in the early races - knowing full well that the track would suit his champion Addeybb.