SWITCH RAISES ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES
A SNAP decision to change the race gear on Endless Days has given the Peter and Will Hulbert training partnership a chance at their biggest ever payday.
Endless Days ($8) assured himself of a start in next week’s $1 million Magic Millions Trophy when he wore down the favourite The Rumour File ($4.20) to score by 1¾ lengths in the Aquis Farm Racehorse Retirement Handicap (2200m) on Saturday. The gelding is a noted wet track performer but Will Hulbert said he hadn’t been worried when the Gold Coast track dried out on Saturday morning.
“I know people think he is just a wet tracker but he ran second at Doomben three starts ago in record time,” the Eagle Farm-based Hulbert said.
“The worry with him has been his wanting to overrace. So in the end we took the blinkers off him and put winkers on him.
“I galloped him up this morning and he felt terrific.”
Hulbert said it would be a great thrill to have a runner in next week’s Magic Millions Trophy over the same track and distance as Saturday’s win.
“We are only a small stable and to have a runner in a million-dollar race is what you dream about,” Hulbert said.
“And I can dream a bit more about winning it.”
Peter Hulbert won the Magic Millions Fillies and Mares race in 2015 with Endless Shadow, Endless Day’s half-sister, but that was before the partnership started in 2016.
Endless Shadow and Endless Days are both raced and bred by Stu Barr and his family of Lilivale Stud.