Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr will feature prominently in Brisbane’s upcoming Winter Carnival, with several key runners in feature races.
Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) runner-up Warmonger has come through his run behind Coco Sun in great order and will head north for the G1 Queensland Derby (2400m).
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“We’ll put him on the plane and send him up for the Derby,” Price said.
“I was in two minds … he’ll be a nice staying four-year-old but just having a good look at him over the last few days he looks beautiful, so off he goes to have a crack at Eagle Farm.”
Price said Jamie Kah will likely jump aboard Warmonger for her first race-day sit on the three-year-old War Decree gelding.
“I think J. Kah will ride him … mile-and-a-half, that’s him,” Price said.
“He’s settling now without the blinkers, I just need to draw a barrier and get someone on him who might give him a rub out of the gates and if he’s travelling midfield or no further back, he can win a mile-and-a-half Derby no problem.”
The above is an excerpt from Tim Yeatman’s Racing.com article and can be read in full here.