BINDIGO Lad ate up the extra distance in Gunnedah last Saturday to make it three on the trot since the two-year-old broke his maiden just after Christmas.
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All three runs have been on the Gunnedah surface, the home track of trainer Bryan Garland, and the Lad will look to make it four today in the Kootingal Meats 1-4 wins final over the 440m.
The black dog will jump from box three, next to his full brother Black Morgan in the two box, trained by local breeder Byron Phillips.
Black Morgan ran a second last week to a screaming Along Comes Fury, who has again drawn the outside box and will be at short odds to make it three wins in a row herself for Muswellbrook trainer Kenneth Bell.
Bindigo Lass ran fourth in that race after a win the week before during Gunnedah’s three meetings in three weeks and, after drawing the outside box in race five, has been scratched.
While the Kootingal Meats final will be one of the races of the day, the GBOTA maiden final will also attract plenty of interest.
The third race of the day will be hotly contested, with Stan Stanford’s Beauty Bonus and David Howarthe’s Magic Howe both sharing the best time to date of 20.15.
Beauty Bonus might have the advantage jumping from the outside, although there are plenty of other good runners capable of breaking the 20-second mark over the 347m trip.
Melanie Mabbott’s Fire Fly Buck has a perfect record after one race and was impressive in the heat last week.
Stanford’s other runner, Retro Alley, will probably start favourite in the second last race, the Clubhouse Hotel Stakes.
Retro Alley blew the field and her trainer away, wiping half a second off her previous best time last week, and will be very tough to beat if she can find that same form, and find the rail from box four.
She will also have to beat Hanify Storm who is on fire at the moment and also showed plenty of improvement last week in the heat.
The Colin Burns-trained dog ran a blistering 19.78 last week, although will be in better company in the grade five, with Retro Alley, Lisa Silver’s Mister Blake and Glenda Bush’s Zealousness all recently busting the 20-second mark.
Mark Craig’s Abelia also ran a 20 seconds neat the start before last.
Gunnedah president Geoff Rose said the club wants to give as many dogs as it can a run and, with 36 races over the last three weeks, the organisation has done just that.
First race will be at 1.15pm today, with the twelfth on at 5pm.
