Jess Palmer (left) onboard Smokin Joey and Meredith Tuckett onboard Bel Thor at Balnarring Beach. Picture: Colleen Petch. Source: Colleen Petch / News Limited
MORNINGTON trainer Wez Hunter's confidence of winning the Railway Stakes with Smokin' Joey was boosted after his final piece of track-work at Mornington last Saturday.
"He worked sensationally. The Mornington track-clocker Les O'Briem said he hadn't seen a horse work that well for a long time," Hunter said.
Hunter said it was the manner in which Smokin' Joey worked and not so much the time which was the impressive aspect.
"It was effortless work. It was just the way he did it," he said.
Hunter said it was the best week Smokin' Joey had had in the three weeks since he had joined the stables.
In that time, Smokin' Joey has had two starts for Hunter for a win in the 1400m Group 3 Chatham Stakes and a second in the Group 1 Emirates Stakes (1600m.)
Hunter received a positive report from his partner Meredith Tuckett as to how Smokin' Joey travelled over to Perth perfectly.
"Meredith said he never turned a hair on the trip. He then went straight to the paddock and had a roll and then went and had a big brekky," he said.
The nine horses which left Melbourne early on Monday morning for the Perth carnival all travelled well.
Smokin Joey (front) gets edged out by Boban in the Emirates Stakes. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images) Source: Getty Images
Sam Pritchard-Gordon said that Mutual Trust had also travelled well and had settled in perfectly at Ross Price's Capel beach property which is two and a half hours south of Perth.
Pritchard-Gordon said he was buoyed by Mouro's win in the Eclipse Stakes last Saturday as he defeated Mutual Trust in the Sale Cup.
"The Railway Stakes is the race we've targeted and we've been lucky enough to have secured the services of Damien Oliver," Pritchard-Gordon said.
Robert Heathcote said his pair Buffering and Fire Up Fifi had also travelled well.
Heathcote said Fire Up Fifi's chances would depend on the Railway Stakes being run at a genuine tempo.
"It's going to be a tougher assignment, but she deserves her chance," the Brisbane trainer said.
"She's earned her way there and with 54 kilos she's going to be suited.
"At her last start (Myer Classic) she carried 57 kilos when third behind two classy Group 1 mares in Red Tracer and Catkins and they didn't run along.
"If it's run at genuine tempo she comes right into play. She's a top-class mare."
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