\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a lot between them. I just thought if it came down to barriers, Ruination could press forward and make his own luck, where Ohope, you\u2019d like to draw well on him otherwise you\u2019ve got to take him back too far.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey both worked together on Tuesday morning, and there was nothing between them, so it was sort of just pluck one out of the hat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason Collett takes over on Ohope ($5, gate four).<\/p>\n
In the $2 million Invitation (1400m), Manaal ($4.80) will be shooting for a hat-trick of fillies and mares features after wins in the group 2 Sheraco (1200m) then the Golden Pendant (1400m). Berry, who reunited with the four-year-old in the Golden Pendant a month ago, believed she needed to win well to warrant a one-week back-up into the $10 million Golden Eagle at Randwick.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe sets up very well from the good alley again,\u201d Berry said of the draw in five. \u201cThe two other main chances in the race have both drawn well, Miss Roumbini and Stefi Magnetica, so she\u2019s going to have to be at her best, but she\u2019s had a nice break between runs and she\u2019s been ticking along very nicely at home.<\/p>\n
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\u201c[Golden Eagle] is a tough ask, so she\u2019d have to probably win, I\u2019m tipping \u2013 and be impressive doing so \u2013 to be back up in a race like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the connection with Freedman continues, Berry reached out to top Queensland trainer Tony Gollan to snare the ride on Transatlantic in the $1 million Five Diamonds Prelude (1500m). Transatlantic, a last-start winner of the group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m), was $2.45 favourite from gate four.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually didn\u2019t really have him on the radar, but I texted Tony to say well done after he won the group 1 with it, and he said he\u2019d be a nice ride for you in the Five Diamonds, so I said, \u2018Yeah, sweet, I\u2019ll take it\u2019,\u201d Berry said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s drawn well, a lovely horse who puts himself on speed and makes his own luck.\u201d<\/p>\n
He rides Chris Waller-trained Master Of The Air ($23) in the group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) and Kovalica ($8) in the Craven Plate (1800m). He said Master Of The Air \u201cwould need a lot of luck\u201d from barrier 12 and Kovalica was \u201cgoing to need speed in the race for him to be a chance\u201d.<\/p>\n
The following Saturday, Berry heads to Flemington, where he rides Lazzura in the Empire Rose, Raging Force in the Coolmore Stud Stakes, Panova in the Carbine Club and Engine Of War in the Derby. He is set to partner More Felons in the Melbourne Cup three days later.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tough one,\u201d he said of choosing between Golden Eagle day at Randwick and the Derby program.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had some good offers in both of the main races, but they looked very strong races, and the top four, three in the market looked very strong, so I just felt the better chances were in Melbourne.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a lot between them. I just thought if it came down to barriers, Ruination…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-521622","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\/115422312797468879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521622","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=521622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}