White Saddles Two Strutt Stakes Chances
- Saturday, 06 February 2010 01:17
Tasmanian trainer Gary White astutely declared his three-year-old filly Feerique to Virtual FormGuide readers in the Thousand Guineas at Launceston a fortnight ago and he is confident she will feature again in the Strutt Stakes this Monday.
But this time round he is wary of two other runners, one of which is Feerique's stablemate Fine Dimple.
"Fine Dimple is probably the out and out stayer of the two, but she lacks Feeriques turn of foot," said White.
"The form around the Alderson horse Tio Rossa is also very strong and it will give us a good guide as to where our fillies stack up."
The form White is speaking of is Eraset and Extra Zero, which extend to household names such as Monaco Consul and Starspangledbanner.
"There is no doubt that those horses would win this race, but thankfully they are not coming," joked White.
"What we do know is that all of these fillies have to prove they can run 2100m and that will be the biggest test."
White is also confident that experience on his home turf will be a factor in the first of the fillies staying tests.
"Hobart is an odd track, it has a steep hill down the back and it takes a tough horse to kick off it," he said.
"Both my runners have won at the track and that gives me a lot of confidence that whatever beats them will win.
The Wrest Point Strutt Stakes is an $80,000 listed race for three-year-old fillies over 2100m and is scheduled as race 6 - 3.15pm on Monday 8 January.
