Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX<\/p>\n
Michael Young, the leading trainer in WA this year, is bubbling with enthusiasm over the prospects of Heavenly Gipsy when she resumes after an eleven-week absence in the $27,000 TABtouch Share My Bet Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night.<\/p>\n
She will begin from the No. 5 barrier, with Gary Hall Jnr keen to use the seven-year-old\u2019s sparkling gate speed to advantage in a bid to lead all the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt her latest start she led (from the No. 1 barrier) and beat Magnificent Storm, so that\u2019s a good form line,\u201d said Young.<\/p>\n
Heavenly Gipsy rated 1.54.7 over 2130m when she beat Arma Einstein and Magnificent Storm on July 18. She sprinted over the final three 400m sections in 28.6sec., 27.7sec. and 28.7sec.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has been working well with Penny Black and should be fit enough,\u201d said Young. \u201cI expect her to lead and win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Young holds a strong hand in Friday night\u2019s race in which Heavenly Gipsy will compete with stablemates Penny Black (Emily Suvaljko; barrier seven) and Princess Katie (Liam Elliott; barrier three).<\/p>\n
Heavenly Gipsy will need to be at her top to beat the brilliant Greg and Skye Bond-trained Aardiebytheseaside, who will begin from the outside barrier in the field of eight.<\/p>\n
Aardiebytheseaside impressed first-up three Fridays ago when she began from out wide at barrier nine and settled at the rear and was seventh at the bell before starting a three-wide move 650m from home and charged to the front with120m to travel to win by a length from Dame Valour, with Water Lou in third place.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has drawn the carpark, but it is a small field, and she is going really good,\u201d said Roberts. \u201cI expect her to go really good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Penny Black is also capable of a bold showing. She boasts a splendid record of 31 starts for 13 wins, seven seconds and three thirds for stakes of $248,398. She reappeared after a three-month absence last Friday week when she worked hard without cover and fought on gamely to finish third behind Mister Smartee and Captain Ravishing over 2130m.<\/p>\n
Also adding considerable interest will be the return to racing of trainer-reinsman Shane Young\u2019s outstanding mare Wonderful To Fly, who will begin from barrier six at her first run since she finished fifth behind Penny Black over 2130m on May 9.<\/p>\n
Reinsman Kyle Harper is looking for a strong effort from the Murray Lindau-trained Beyond The Sea (barrier two), who will be having her third start after a 12-month absence.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is on the way up, and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if she runs a good race,\u201d said Harper.<\/p>\n
Trainer-reinsman Chris Voak has Sweet Vivienne racing with considerable zest, and the five-year-old has sound claims despite rising in class after recent wins over Hillview Bondi at Pinjarra and Gloucester Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Michael Young, the leading trainer in WA this year, is bubbling with enthusiasm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-467327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115302208864638851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}