Trainer hoping for Cool runnings

COFFS Harbour trainer Brett Dodson is in countdown mode with stable star Swift Charm Country Championship Heatbound in just 11-days time but has business to conduct in between starting at Grafton on Tuesday.

Dodson houses half a dozen ‘Cool’ horses in his stable, one of them a potential superstar in Cool Storm.

Two of his stablemates are headed to the home of the Ramornie Handicap today namely Cool Machine and Cool Shalaa, both sporting the predominantly navy blue colours of Coolarest Farm.

Cool Machine was tipped out after a fading debut fifth at Coffs Harbour on July 23.

The son of Run To The Rose and BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Lean Mean Machine has returned to racing, bigger and better, judging on her two summer appearances.

First-up, Cool Machine stretched the Noel MayfieldSmith trained Scotland to a neck in what has since become the first of his three consecutive wins.

Cool Machine followed up three weeks later with a closing – and unlucky – fifth of 14 at the same venue.

“She got interfered with,’’ Dodson began. “That horse ran out in front of her just stopped her momentum a little bit.

“She picked up a bit of a virus after her first-up run and she was sort of just on her way back-up so she missed a little bit of work going into that run.

“She is over all that now and she’ll improve on what she did last start. With the right run she is going to be hard to beat.’’

Dodson will be up bright and early prior to his trip away to attend to the needs of Country Championships contender, Swift Charm.

‘’There’s good form around his two Highway runs and he’s only just been beaten. I think 1400m will suit him even more, it is probably his best distance,’’ he says.