Ribbons ready to rock at Grange

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.