Fetish for winning at Innisfail

KERRY Krogh has never had a winner at Innisfail, but he knows all about the track.

“It rains every time I go there,” the Julia Creek trainer said with a smile.

“They tell me it’s the best weather track around. It might need to be.”

Eyes will be on the skies today as officials sweat over the five-race card, with Krogh particularly keen for a good day given his 10-hour, 905km trek just to reach the Cassowary Coast.

Pure Fetish ($8) will have to defy her history of failing to go the distance as the mare searches for a breakthrough in the $7000 Maiden Plate (900m).

Krogh will then prepare five-year-old mare One Tuff Cupcake ($5) for the $7000 QTIS Class 2 Handicap (900m) in a one-two punch he remains cautiously optimistic about.

“They should both do well but I think One Tuff Cupcake should be a better chance,” he said. “She ran second in Charters Towers over 800m.

“I thought she would get out well and go but she sat off the pace. I can’t see her out of the placings.”

The bigger mystery, though, is squeezing extra yards out of six-year-old Pure Fetish.

“She will go all right and she has a good turn of pace,” Krogh said. “But 1000m seems to be too far for her.

“She doesn’t want to finish off so hopefully she hits the lead and can fluke it.”

Organisers will decide this morning whether the track will be fit for racing.

All signs were positive until a heavy mid-afternoon downpour yesterday.

“We’ve got one of the best wet weather tracks around but it really depends,” Innisfail Turf Club secretary Kellie Harrison said.