Diamond picture still no clearer
THE Hayes and Dabernig stable added another runner to its powerful Blue Diamond Stakes arsenal with Enbihaar, while Grahame Begg’s colt Written By stamped himself as a genuine winning chance after they won their respective divisions of the Preludes.
The Blue Diamond picture though didn’t get any clearer and maybe even murkier as the two winners put their hands up as genuine chances as well as several unlucky runners between the two divisions of the Preludes.
Enbihaar won the filly’s Prelude impressively but again Oohood finished an unlucky second and Mick Price’s first starter Seabrook was promoted to third after being checked in the straight.
In the colts and geldings division, the boom Sydney colt Plague Stone, was trapped wide in the early stages and finished off well for second and his jockey Kerrin McEvoy said he was unlucky.
On the back of that run Plague Stone firmed into equal $7 favourite with Kinky Boom and Written By firmed from $17 into $8.
Oohood played up in the barriers and then had to undergo a veterinary examination before being passed fit to run but she was slow to begin.
Her jockey Luke Currie said she was “a bit silly” at the barriers and was then a bit slow to begin.
“After that they didn’t go hard in the early stages so it was very hard for the backmarkers,” Currie said.
Also the Mick Price trained Seabrook was unlucky as she was held up for a run in the closing stages.
The $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes is on February 24.