Local Diamond hope

IMPRESSIVE debut winner Brooklyn Hustle has been installed TAB favourite for the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes for two-year-olds.

The Jason Warren-trained filly, owned by Gnarwarre’s Rosemont Stud, made a big impression when she overcame a slow start at Moonee Valley on December 1 in a 1000m race to draw clear of her rivals and beat Yes Yes Yes by two lengths.

Brooklyn Hustle was posted at $6 yesterday in the TAB fixed odds market for the $1.5 million Blue Diamond (1200m) at Caulfield on February 23.

Golden Slipper favourite Tassort is on the second line at $8 but the James Cummingstrained colt is listed as doubtful for the Melbourne race.

Tassort’s stablemate Athiri is one of four horses on the third line at $11, the others being Magic Millions winner Exhilarates, who is unlikely, the Darren Weir-trained Yes Yes Yes and the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Catch Me.

Yes Yes Yes was the onetime favourite for Saturday’s Magic Millions Classic but was scratched after an arduous float trip from Melbourne.

Catch Me was an impressive winner of the Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick in late September in her only race appearance.