Mercury (Hobart)

Ribbons ready to rock at Grange

- MATT JONES

BOOM filly Satin Ribbons will make a low key debut today at Kembla Grange after Team Snowden decided not to start her from a wide gate at the 1100m Rosehill trip.

Co-trainer Paul Snowden said it wasn’t a tough decision to miss a Stakes race in Sydney to run at the provincial­s despite how valuable a Woodlands Stakes win would be to the Capitalist juvenile.

“We didn’t want her to have to do the impossible in her first start in a race,” Snowden, pictured, said. “She’s no doubt got the ability and if we drew a better gate we would’ve been running at Rosehill tomorrow. I’m sure it (Stakes race) will happen, it’s just a matter of when.”

At Rosehill today the Snowdens will try to win another feature race with Exoboom in the $300,000 Inglis 3YO Guineas.

He took out the Hawkesbury Guineas a fortnight ago and history says he will be improved further off that performanc­e.

“He’s come through it very well,” Snowden said. “This is his third racing preparatio­n so he’s got a bit of a profile and once he gets into a preparatio­n he keeps getting better.

“Last time in, his winning margins kept getting wider and wider so it suggests he’s in for another good preparatio­n.”

Exoboom will get back from barrier 12 under Regan Bayliss, like he did to win last time.

On this occasion, however, he’ll have to get past $2.90 favourite Prime Star, who has placed at Group 2 grade and been just 3½ lengths off Lion’s Roar in a Group 1 race.

“He’s the horse that’s going to get the right run from the draw and he’ll be in the first four,’’ Snowden said.

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