Rowe backing terrific trio as strong chances
CAIRNS trainer Trevor Rowe usually keeps his cards pretty close to his chest but he can’t help but be excited about his new crop of babies.
Ahead of the $30,000 Pallarenda Stakes QTIS 2YO Fillies Maiden Plate and the $30,000 Pallarenda Stakes QTIS 2YO Fillies C & G Maiden Plate today at Cluden Park, the reigning premiership-winning trainer at Cannon Park believes he has three strong chances. Rowe will start Chips A Plenty and Uptown Toff in the colts and geldings race while Poetic Pearl is the stable’s fillies hopeful in the first two-year-old race in the north this season.
The veteran trainer likened the trio to He’s A Ladies Man, who won the Pallarenda Stakes on debut, as well as starting in the Magic Millions at Eagle Farm in 2013.
“The crop of two-year-olds I have got this year is the best bunch I have had in a long time,” Rowe said.
“They are the best since I had He’s A Ladies Man and Bar Attack a few years back.
“I am a little bit excited about these three actually.
“It is always exciting when the two-year-olds go around. “They might go all right.” The trio have trialled at Cannon Park in recent weeks ahead of their debut at Cluden Park this afternoon.
Rowe stable jockeys John Lambie, on Chips A Plenty and Poetic Pearl, and Sonja Wiseman, on Uptown Toff, take the rides.
Charters Towers trainer Ben Williams has three starters in the colts and geldings race while top Caloundra trainer Krystle Johnston has two.
“With my experience with two-year-olds, it is not necessarily the best one that wins,” Rowe said.
“It is the horse that can stay out of trouble in the running.”
Fellow Cannon Park trainer Fred Wieland, a multiple winner of the $30,000 Two-Year-Old Colts and Geldings and Fillies races at Cluden Park, has two starters in the fillies race.
In 2016, hardworking jockey Bonnie Thompson completed a daring double in the two feature races of Pallarenda Stakes Day at Cluden Park.
The first of six races jumps at Townsville Turf Club from 1.39pm today.