Slydini pushing to shed wet-track tag
THE Bryan and Daniel Guy training partnership is confident Slydini can finally put to rest a theory he is just a wettrack horse when he runs at Doomben.
There have been few more consistent horses racing than Slydini who has had an Ipswich win, four seconds and two thirds at his past seven starts this campaign.
He has picked up more than $50,000 prizemoney without winning a city race.
Originally trained by Joe Pride in Sydney, Slydini does have a good wet-track record having won three races and being placed seven times on rain-affected ground.
However, Daniel Guy said Slydini was proving an honest performer on all ground.
“At his past two starts, Slydini has run second to the inform Aqua Vite on very firm going,” the Gold Coast-based Guy said.
“He has only been on a wet track once this campaign and was an unlucky second.”
Syldini is coming back from a last-start second at 1800m at the Gold Coast to 1600m at Doomben tomorrow.
“He has only missed a place once in six goes at 1600m and has been placed three of his four runs at the Doomben mile,” Guy said. “We wouldn’t be upset by a bit of rain but a dry track won’t hurt us.”
Brisbane has again been hot all week and the Doomben surface is likely to be firm tomorrow.
Champion jockey-turned-trainer Chris Munce has given former country rider Les Tilley a vote of confidence with the mount on comeback horse Lucky Black at Doomben.
Tilley will ride Lucky Black in the Open Handicap (1050m) against what appears a moderate field of off-season sprinters.
Lucky Black, who has won seven races, hasn’t run since finishing second to multiple stakes winner Sir Moments in April 2016.
Tilley, who has ridden about 230 winners, was born in Charleville in western Queensland and had a stint at St George where he was apprenticed.