Lynds Expects Wall Street To Run Well
- Thursday, 10 February 2011 06:45
Trainer Jeff Lynds does not have any great expectations of Wall Street when he resumes in Saturday's Group One Waikato Sprint, but he should still run well.
Wall Street will be having his first run since a spring campaign which netted him three Group One races, the last coming in the Emirates Stakes (1600m) on the last day of the Melbourne Cup carnival in November.
He faces a hot line-up on Saturday including Telegraph Handicap winner Mufhasa and exciting filly We Can Say It Now, but his class is such that he is rated the $4.40 second favourite by TAB bookies.
"It's going to be a high-class line-up, but that's all we've got, we can't start him off anywhere else. He'll improve with the run," Lynds said.
"I've got no great expectations, but the horse has always done his best and I'm quite certain that he'll run a good race."
Lynds said he was undecided what races Wall Street would target in the autumn but added that there were plenty of choices for a horse who excelled from 1400m to 2000m, particularly in Australia.
"We want to get him used to racing right-handed and I think we'll go to Sydney," he said.
"We haven't decided just what races we're going to race him in there as yet. He's got a nomination for the Doncaster, but there's plenty of good races he can race in over there."
Likely to accompany Wall Street to Australia is Booming who is aiming for his third consecutive Group One victory in Saturday's International Stakes (2000m).
Booming is in a rich vein of form, having taken out the Zabeel Classic on Boxing Day and the Thorndon Mile in late January, and is the $3.50 favourite for the International Stakes.
Booming was second in the Auckland Cup (3200m) last year but he will have to carry 58.5kg in the race this year and Lynds said he could be aimed at weight-for-age races in Australia instead.
"He's in the Auckland Cup but a decision will be made on Saturday, how he races and what to do with him. He's alsogot a nomination for the BMW and the Australian Cup," he said.
Also starting in the International Stakes is last year's Horse of the Year Vosne Romanee who hasn't struck form yet this season.
"He's drawn the outside gate again. There should be an inquiry on that," Lynds joked.
"Without doubt he's as good as last season, he just has had no luck, that's all."
Picture: Quentin Lang
