{"id":470521,"date":"2025-10-03T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/470521\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:27:13","slug":"clark-puts-faith-in-private-harry-to-aim-up-for-assault-on-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/470521\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark puts faith in Private Harry to aim up for assault on Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThat run will bring him on, and then I think he will come on again after Saturday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess he\u2019s had a slot for so long, they could time it so that he was peaking on the right day, third-up, a couple of good, hard, toughen-up runs into it.<\/p>\n

\"Ash<\/p>\n

Ash Morgan salutes on Private Harry in their group 1 Galaxy win on March 22.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to just get him comfortable. I\u2019d be surprised if Mazu went out as hard as he did last start, going up to 1200 and at weight-for-age. I think that wouldn\u2019t give him his best chance maybe, but I\u2019m not too worried about anything else in the race. I\u2019m just more worried about making sure he executes well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s best result in the Everest was fourth on Nature Strip in 2019.<\/p>\n

Vauban is another horse Clark hopes can lift after a disappointing run. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained import, a $16 Caulfield Cup and $18 Melbourne Cup chance, was a $12 hope from gate seven in the $750,000 Metropolitan (2400m) after a sixth in the Kingston Town Stakes, which followed a third in the Chelmsford.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe ran so well first up, it may have just taken the edge off him,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think that I probably had him a bit close as well \u2013 close to a faster speed than we\u2019d anticipated. It just took his finish away from him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to just make sure we give him some chance, get the tactics right on Saturday and he can well and truly bounce back. He\u2019s got the top weight because he\u2019s the class runner in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark could be off to a flyer on the day with Waterhouse-Bott\u2019s Eviction Notice ($2.25) and Shiki ($3.40) in the two-year-old features, the Breeders\u2019 Plate and Gimcrack Stakes, after trial wins.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot between any of them, so it\u2019s just a matter of who handles the day the best and has better luck in running,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m really happy with my horses from the trials. I\u2019ve been on them since, they\u2019ve trained on well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, superstar Ka Ying Rising will face fellow Everest runners Angel Capital, Joliestar and Overpass, and King Charles III Stakes contenders Fangirl and Mr Brightside, in his sole Australian trial at Randwick on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Charlton welcomes mile test<\/p>\n

Co-trainer Tom Charlton always felt Artistic Venture would produce over further as a three-year-old and he hopes she can be there to pounce if group 1 Flight Stakes (1600m) favourite Apocalyptic falters on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Trapeze Artist filly came from last, following winner Apocalyptic through, to finish second in the group 2 1400m Tea Rose Stakes last start after breaking her maiden three weeks earlier. Artistic Venture finished top five in her four two-year-old runs, all at stakes level.<\/p>\n

She was a $13 chance from gate one to cause an upset in the Princess Series finale, where Apocalyptic was the $1.75 favourite.<\/p>\n

\"Tommy<\/p>\n

Tommy Berry and Apocalyptic win the Tea Rose Stakes.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWe probably never thought she was a natural two-year-old,\u201d said Charlton, who trains in partnership with John O\u2019Shea.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s quite a big, lengthy filly, and it always felt like her three-year-old season was going to be her best year. And once she broke her maiden, it probably did her the world of good.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was excellent the other day, and probably couldn\u2019t do much more really. She was beaten by a very dominant winner, who probably has it all in her grasp. She looks to have trained on really well and if there are any chinks in her favourite\u2019s armour, then hopefully she might be able to pick them out.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer pedigree suggests a mile should be within her reach, and we\u2019ve always felt that this was her type of race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher\u2019s star ready to rise<\/p>\n

Leading trainer Ciaron Maher expects Jimmysstar to relish taking on a small field over the 1200m of the Premiere Stakes on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Jimmysstar was finishing well for fifth in his first-up run in the 1000m Concorde Stakes on September 6 and has been seen just once since, sitting outside the leader before easily winning a 1050m Rosehill trial two weeks later. He has the outside gate in a seven-horse field on Saturday in his final Everest warm-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gets back, so I asked him to get away and hold a position in the trial, and he did that no problem, albeit there wasn\u2019t a lot of speed,\u201d Maher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he should be just on the back of them, and we know he\u2019s got good late figures.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was very good over the 1000 first up. This has been his plan all the way along, a similar path as he took with [Everest winner] Bella [Nipotina] last year, and so far so good.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack to Randwick up to the six furlongs would be much more to his liking. The small field, yeah, I think he\u2019ll hit the line pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher also has New Zealand Derby winner Willydoit ($9.50) in the Epsom Handicap and five runners in the Metropolitan. He found it hard to split Royal Supremacy ($10), Piggyback ($23) and Juja Kibo ($20) as his best in the 2400m group 1.<\/p>\n

Royal Supremacy was second in the Newcastle Cup last start, while Piggyback edged out Juja Kibo in the Colin Stephen Quality last week to guarantee a Metropolitan spot. Juja Kibo then snuck into the field.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe probably wasn\u2019t aided by the slow tempo in the Newcastle Cup. I was very confident of his chances there, and this has always been his plan,\u201d Maher said of Royal Supremacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith our runners, it\u2019s probably Royal Supremacy, Piggyback and Juja Kibo. There\u2019s not much between them.<\/p>\n

\u201cPiggyback ran a peak at her last two runs. I thought Juja might have ran below what I expected, but Piggyback just improved, so both of them have got no weight, both of them are in really good order, both should back up OK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat run will bring him on, and then I think he will come on again after Saturday,\u201d he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-470521","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\/115309055141476840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470521","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=470521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}