{"id":169477,"date":"2025-06-09T05:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169477\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T05:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:43:12","slug":"glen-thompson-weighs-up-q22-back-up-for-luckless-queensland-oaks-placegetter-benagil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169477\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Thompson weighs up Q22 back-up for luckless Queensland Oaks placegetter Benagil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flemington trainer Glen Thompson<\/a> will make a decision on Wednesday on whether gifted filly Benagil<\/a> will back up for Saturday’s $1.2m Q22<\/a> over 2200m at Eagle Farm.<\/p>\n

Thompson believes Benagil was unlucky not to win last Saturday’s Queensland Oaks<\/a> (2200m) feature after getting caught behind horses in the straight before making a late charge under Mark Zahra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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She ended up finishing third, less than a length behind the Kris Lees-trained You Wahng and Godolphin’s runner Pinito.<\/p>\n

“I’ll make a decision on Wednesday morning,” Thompson said.<\/p>\n

“She’s licked the bin out ever since the Oaks and seemed nice and bright this morning (Monday).<\/p>\n

“I always had in the back of my mind that if she won (the Oaks) then I’d look at running her in the Q22.<\/p>\n

“She should’ve won so I guess there’s no reason not to give her a chance and I don’t think it’s an overly strong year for it (the Q22).<\/p>\n

“Even Mark (Zahra) said she should’ve won by a length or two. It’s frustrating because they’re hard races to win and she’ll never get another chance in an Oaks again.<\/p>\n

“She just needs to give us a sign that she doesn’t need to back up.<\/p>\n

“She was going to go for a break this week but one more week isn’t going to hurt.”<\/p>\n

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It would be hard to knock back a chance to contest the weight-for-age Q22, won last year by Fawkner Park, given the winner’s cheque is a massive $720,000. <\/p>\n

Thompson said Craig Williams<\/a> would ride in the Q22 if he decided that the Australasian Oaks winner Benagil would race on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“She’ll then have five or six weeks in the paddock up here (in Brisbane) and she’ll come back for a couple of runs for the tail end of spring,” he said.<\/p>\n

Thompson said Benagil would go second-up into the $1m Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes<\/a> (1600m) at Flemington on November 1.<\/p>\n