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SYDNEY colt Midnight City, from the in-form Tim
Martin stable, is the early favourite for tomorrow’s
Group 1 Borelli Hand-Made Clothing QTC Sires Produce
at Eagle Farm.
The QTIS qualified son of the ill-fated Lion Hunter
burst onto the Queensland racing scene with a runaway
four length win in the Listed Ken Russell Memorial
Classic at the Gold Coast on May 15.
In winning at the Gold Coast, Midnight City set
a new race record for the Ken Russell of 1:14.4,
which was 1.5 seconds faster than the previous best
in the five years that the race has been run over
1300 metres.
Midnight City had been placed at his first two starts
late last year, before resuming with an impressive
win at Canterbury on May 3 before heading north.
“The horse has done terrific since winning
at the Coast. He is fit and well and will have no
problems with the 1400m. He lost a bit of weight
on the truck coming up from Sydney, but has put that
back on and more,” stable foreman, Blake Ryan,
said.
Ryan agrees with rival trainer, Steve Englebrecht
(Genius And Evil), that the field that Midnight City
beat at the Gold Coast was not overly strong.
“I think that the horses he beat at the Gold
Coast were a fairly ordinary bunch, but having said
that the form from the race has held up,” Ryan
said.
Serenote, which was third in the race, and Birthday
Bash, (fifth), came out and ran the quinella in the
Listed Doomben Slipper last Saturday.
Ryan rates boom Gold Coast gelding, Golden Fox,
the horse to beat, with Genius And Evil and the Robert
Smerdon-trained Lords A Leaping, which has blinkers
added tomorrow, the main dangers to Midnight City.
The other QTIS runners in the Sires Produce are
the Toowoomba filly Star Shiraz, which should be
better suited by the big Eagle Farm straight, along
with Birthday Bash and the Gerald Ryan-trained The
Spit.
Star Shiraz, which has recorded two wins and four
seconds from her six starts, has reportedly worked
well this week in Toowoomba.
The filly’s trainer Rex Lipp has rated Golden
Fox, which has beaten the filly home at her last
two runs and Midnight City as the horses to beat
in the Sires.
QUEENSLAND Racing carnival news: Ray See – June
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