Enigma may be back to his best
THE enigmatic Quatronic is poised to turn his form around in similar style to stablemate Perfect Dare when he runs in the Open Handicap at the Gold Coast today.
Quatronic arrives with awful form on paper, having run 14th, seventh and 12th since resuming from a spell.
But trainer Matt Dunn is cautiously optimistic the real Quatronic will turn up today.
“I can’t tip him because he makes a fool of you every time you do that, but I do think he can turn it around,” he said.
“I think all the travel got to him last start.
“He ran OK in Melbourne and I wanted to break the trip home up so he stayed in Sydney. He’s like that – he’s all or nothing.
“He’s been on the waterwalker since then and he looks pretty good.
“If he runs up to the form he was in at Scone last year where he beat Gerald Ryan’s good horse (Deploy), there would be no betting in this race, but he’s just not a horse you can have a lot of confidence in.”
Dunn’s stable fired on all cylinders at Doomben last Saturday, with Care To Think’s monster win and Don’tbabylon’s 50-1 win in the Listed Nudgee Stakes.
That followed Perfect Dare’s upset return to form at the Gold Coast meeting a week earlier.
Dunn has withdrawn Perfect Dare from today’s Class 6 Plate (1400m), preferring not to run from gate 14.
He will be saved for the Magic Millions Snippets (1200m) at the Gold Coast next Saturday.
“Jimmy (Byrne) can ride him in that race and for some reason he seems to go lengths better for him than any other jockey,” Dunn said.