Thrills galore with $101 shot
It looms as the biggest day of his training career on Saturday, but South Australian handler Aaron Bain feels no pressure, as he saddles up his first Group 1 runner, Rubamos, in the $1m The Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville.
The dual-code trainer – who operates in partnership with Ned Taylor at Gawler – is delighted to have a runner in Adelaide’s time honoured sprint race, and is one of five locallytrained horses that will tackle the last G1 of the Adelaide Racing Carnival.
“We are there, and we are going to give the owners a great thrill and the stable as well,”
Bain said. “We are under no illusions that he is an outsider ($101 shot), he was bought with some of these better races in mind, but I’m very much looking forward to the day itself tomorrow and letting the owners experience that on home soil.”
Bain and Taylor’s partnership is on the rise in South Australia, with eight metro wins for the season, and Bain hopes this is the first of many G1 runners to come for the expanding stable.
The handler has already experienced feature race glory in the harness racing world, winning the TAB Eureka with Encipher last year – the World’s Richest Harness Race. “Hopefully one day we are saddling up a $3 favourite in a Group 1 and winning,” he said. Rubamos has had two starts for Bain and Taylor since arriving from the stables of champion trainer Chris Waller, running respectively in Listed grade, finishing seventh in the Matrice Stakes (1200m) and fourth in the City of Adelaide Handicap (1527m) last start.