Fine fillies for local trainer
With a growing stable of horses, Cairns trainer Rhonda Inglis is looking for her star grey Lilly Kareena to continue her solid form from earlier this year at Cannon Park today. Inglis has just three horses in work at her Cairns Jockey Club stables but will have some promising new arrivals in the coming weeks following the Magic Millions March QTIS Sale. Inglis landed two yearlings, who will join Lilly Kareena, Frenchenka and Fine ‘n’ Devine soon.
WITH a growing stable of horses, Cairns trainer Rhonda Inglis is looking for her star grey Lilly Kareena to continue her solid form from earlier this year at Cannon Park today.
Inglis has just three horses in work at her Cairns Jockey Club stables but will have some promising new arrivals in the coming weeks following the Magic Millions March QTIS Sale.
Inglis landed two yearlings, $7000 and $9000 purchases each, who will join Lilly Kareena, Frenchenka and Fine ‘ n’ Devine soon.
Lilly Kareena was dualnominated, for yesterday’s races at Townsville as well as today’s Elite Real Estate Class 3 Plate, with Inglis keen to keep the grey mare at home.
The four-year-old had five trips to the races over the first two months of 2017, yielding three seconds and a first, and will start this afternoon after a nine-week freshen up.
“She has done most of her racing in Townsville,” Inglis said.
“Shohei Kaya rides all her work and she is getting up in the weights so we need a claiming apprentice.
“In her last preparation, we put apprentices on and she is only a little horse.”
Vaunting, from the Samantha Molino stable, Peter Ryan’s Compulsive Rocket and Global Guru from Lawrence Reys’ team will also have claims in the Class 3 Plate.
Inglis is hopeful her two new stable acquisitions will land in the Far North in around eight weeks. “They are being broken in at Warwick at the moment,” Inglis said.
“They will do a couple of jump-outs to get their barrier certificate so they are a little further ahead by the time they get up here. “They are two nice types. “You have to keep your fin- gers crossed with these babies, it is hit and miss with them.
“These two look nice so hopefully they are two nice types.”
Five non-TAB meetings will be contested today at Cannon Park with the first jumping from 12.55pm.
Elsewhere, regular visitor to the Far North, jockey Chelsea Jokic, was in Mackay Base Hospital with a fractured skull after a fall in a jump-out on Thursday afternoon.