Crockett is spoilt for choice at Scone races

TRAINER Cameron Crockett has been almost spoilt for choice with race options for Meraki Miss at Scone today.

It’s not often a horse is an acceptor in three races on the same program, which is the case with Meraki Miss.

Crockett entered Meraki Miss for the Class 3 Handicap (1000m), the Class 2 Handicap (1200m) where the mare is the third emergency, and the Benchmark 66 Handicap (1200m).

Meraki Miss has been scratched from the Benchmark 66 race but remains in the other two races. Crockett said he was still unsure which Scone race to start his in-form mare.

“I’ve her in both races just in case the Class 2 race falls away with scratchings — but that usually doesn’t happen in country racing,” Crockett said.

“To my eye, the action this mare has got and the way the mare works at home has me thinking she will be a nice horse at 1300m or 1400m.

“The Class 2 is over 1200m but it has a couple of untapped horses so I don’t think the Class 3 at 1000m is too much harder.

“We have drawn barrier one in the class 3 and she is nice and fresh so either race would be suitable for her.”

Meraki Miss, a lightly-raced mare by champion sire I Am Invincible, goes to Scone in very good form this campaign with an Orange class 1 win and two seconds in four starts.

If Meraki Miss can win at Scone today, it will be a timely advertisement for Crockett’s training business and also lift the young trainer’s spirits as he is still mourning the loss of his father, legendary horseman Max Crockett, last week.