Divine on hunt for black type

TRAINER Stuart Kendrick hopes to convert his best season to date into more blacktype winners starting with Divine Centuri at the Gold Coast tomorrow.

Kendrick brought up his 70th winner for the season last week and is second on the Queensland premiership behind Tony Gollan.

He has gradually built up a top team including Divine Centuri who gets the chance to score her second stakes win in Listed Silk Stocking (1200m) tomorrow.

Kendrick has always had a huge opinion of the now fouryear-old mare whose career has been dogged by injury.

“She has had two knee operations which is why she is relatively lightly raced,” the Sunshine Coast trainer said.

“She looked like being top flight when she won the Mick Dittman Plate against a top field last year.

“She was so impressive that we entered her for the Doomben 10,000.

“We really thought she had a chance because it was a year when the field was small.

“But she went wrong and we had to scratch her.”

UBET has Divine Centuri, the winner of four of her 10 starts, at $17 with Sydney mare Nancy the race favourite at $3.80.