Inevitable to return home
TASMANIAN galloper The Inevitable will return to Scott Brunton’s Seven Mile Beach stables this week after finishing unplaced in the Group 1 Goodwood Handicap (1200m) at Morphettville in Adelaide last Saturday.
The Inevitable signalled his arrival on the big stage earlier this season by winning at Flemington before heading to Sydney to win the inaugural $500,000 Silver Eagle at Randwick (1300m).
He subsequently ran unplaced in the $7.5 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill before returning home to recuperate.
Brunton took him to Melbourne for a first-up tilt in the $1.1 million Group 1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington but he failed to figure and that led to another freshen-up.
With state borders closed interstate because of coronavirus restrictions, Brunton transferred The Inevitable into the care of Victorianbased trainer Patrick Payne, who tended to the pint-sized gelding for the first time in a handicap at Flemington in which he was an eye-catching second to Prezado, which won again last week.
The Inevitable drew the outside barrier in the Goodwood and while he loomed to figure turning for home, the work he did to secure that position took its toll at the business end of the race.
“He didn’t get any favours in the Goodwood but that was due to drawing the outside gate,” Brunton said.
“After speaking with Patrick [Payne] we have decided to pull the pin and bring him home and set him for a spring campaign.
“In hindsight he probably peaked at Flemington and the trip to SA probably too its toll.”
TEAM WELLS prepared three of the four winners at yesterday’s thoroughbred trials at Elwick.
Two-year-olds Gee Gee Can Win and Gee Gees Teardrop both showed they have come on since their debuts late last year, scoring impressively with the latter producing the best times over the 900m trip. Gee Gees Teardrop had two starts late last year for beyond midfield finishes, but yesterday the gelded son of Wordsmith always travelled like the winner and hit the line still under a hold.
The gelding’s dam is Gee Gee Cry Baby, sired by Paul and Elizabeth Geard’s foundation stallion Atlantis Prince. The runner-up Crystal Pallazo also looked good, failing by only a neck, so this filly by Warrior’s Reward prepared by Rhonda Hall also is one to watch when racing resumes next month.
Team Wells’ other winner Gee Gee Wynett was impressive in taking out the open trial over 900m.