Bargain Buy Chasing Hat-trick

Handy mare Redemiyev, purchased for just $1,500 as a tried maiden galloper, heads to Queanbeyan on Saturday looking for a hat-trick of wins.

Trained by John Nisbet in Canberra, the four-year-old lines up in the First Class Accountants F&M Benchmark 55 Handicap (1100m).

Redemiyev, by American stallion Fasliyev, has flourished under Nisbet returning $26,700 from three wins and five placings in 11 starts with the former top jockey.

The mare was purchased by June Baker as a future broodmare prospect.

"She had four runs when trained out of Warwick Farm and hadn't won a race," Nisbet said.

"June, a regular client of mine, got her cheap and she's managed to prove a pretty good money-spinner."

Redemiyev was sent to the breeding barn last year after winning over 900m at Queanbeyan in August but failed to get into foal, with Baker subsequently putting her back in work with Nisbet.

After the failed mating, the mare scored handsomely first-up at Queanbeyan on February 23 in a Benchmark 55 handicap over 900m with tomorrow's rider Roly Saxton in the saddle.

"She was in work for about ten weeks before Queanbeyan and came to hand quickly," Nisbet said.

"She's been a mare that has had a few traits, she tends to want to pull in her work and shy at everything, but with time, she's slowly improved.

"I guess you could say she's been awkward.

"I ride her to work every day, we use a butterfly bit to settle her, and you've just got to be patient. When she gets on with you she gets on with you.

"She's racing well at present, has come back from the break in good order and importantly, while she got beaten at her first try at the track by twelve lengths, she's taken a liking to racing at Queanbeyan."

Redemiyev has two wins and a second from four Queanbeyan starts.

"It (Queanbeyan) can be a tricky track," Nisbet said.

"But when horses handle it they seem to keep handling it.

"Redemiyev has drawn shocking tomorrow (barrier 16) and that's a concern but it's a good start from the 1100 metres and she has enough early speed to be prominent, hopefully somewhere with cover.

"I think there are more wins in her before she goes back to stud."