Colt can snatch star tag
Boss says Farnan best horse in the Coolmore
MAN of the moment Glen Boss has tipped boom colt Farnan could win the stallionmaking Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes by “three or four lengths”.
“Farnan is a star, I promise you,” Boss said. “It is as simple as this — I will ride him like the best horse in the race because he is the best horse in the race.
“If he turns up he will win by three or four lengths.
“Then all of a sudden he’s that valuable colt that everyone knew he was.”
It is a big statement from the Cox Plate-winning jockey but his crystal ball has been in perfect order lately.
Boss has the job of resurrecting the spring of the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Botttrained Golden Slipper winner.
Farnan was rated as the best of his generation but the mantle has slipped.
He finished fifth as the hot favourite in the Group 2 Run To The Rose at Rosehill when Hugh Bowman led them a merry dance in front, only for the colt to weaken and for Bowman to cop a suspension, which was later overturned.
Farnan then had setbacks that saw him miss the Roman Consul Stakes and lose his slot in The Everest.
Boss was on the colt’s back when bolting in to win a Gosford trial.
He is glad the trainers and Aquis switched to target the Coolmore, at Flemington on Saturday, where he is the $5 second favourite.
“I’m glad they didn’t go towards The Everest. I rode him in a trial before the Everest and I can tell you he would have run very well,” Boss said.
“But it would have been the end of his campaign.
“I’m glad they have gone down this road.”
He has less confidence about his prospects in the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes in which he rides Wendy Roche’s pizza-loving Doncaster winner Nettoyer.
Nettoyer will be backing up from his ninth to Boss’s Cox
Plate winner Sir Dragonet.
“I haven’t got as much confidence in her as she has never backed up well in her life,” Boss said.
“She is a quirky horse but I do get on quite well with her.”
He will link with Peter and Paul Snowden three-year-old colt King’s Legacy, who will carry 51kg in the Group 1 Cantala Stakes.
He has urged punters to forget the colt’s run in the Caulfield Guineas — when ninth to Ole Kirk.
“He’s a good horse. You just have to forget his last run as he never seemed to travel down the hill at Caulfield,” Boss said.
“Hopefully it’s just that Caulfield effect and he can redeem himself on the bigger track over a mile.”