Whispering Brook (far right) runs third to Pounamu and Variation last start.
Expected weather: Possible morning showers and 23 degrees
Expected track rating: Good 4
Rail position: 10m
Race 4: 3.25pm – Cockburn Gateway Shopping City Trophy (2200m) - Bet with TABtouch
8 DUDEMANBRO (TABtouch opening price: $7.50)
A 4yo of Justin Warwick’s who’s only had the six starts.
He’s improved in each of his four runs this campaign.
His last two runs have been at the 2200m, so he now has the distance in the legs.
He was three wide the trip last start, felt the run, then picked up again over the last 100m.
Watch and then have a little wager.
REPLAY - DUDEMANBRO (3rd) - 7 November 2017 - Race 4 - 2200m - Ascot
Race 5: 4.00pm – RJ Peters Stakes (1400m) - Bet with TABtouch
1 MATERIAL MAN (TABtouch opening price: $4.80)
Another gelding trained by J.Warwick, and to be ridden by L.Warwick.
This bloke won’t be as ‘UTR’ as his stablemate, but I expect he won’t receive the same amount of love Royal Star and Variation will in this event.
He carries weight, but he is a big player here. He’s drawn well in gate four, unbeaten in two previous second-up runs, and did beat Miki Two Toes first-up... when Variation didn’t.
REPLAY - MATERIAL MAN (1st) - 29 October 2017 - Race 8 - 1600m - Northam
Race 6: 4.37pm – Breast Cancer Care WA - Colonel Reeves Stakes (1,100m) - Bet with TABtouch
1 WHISPERING BROOK (TABtouch opening price: $10)
I concede, she’s back to 1100m following two runs at the seven furlongs and up against some absolute flying machines here.
But for multiples, on her last run, she has to be considered.
Corporate Larrikin went a million miles an hour in the Asian Beau, and it was WB’s job to carry the field up to him before the corner. She was left a sitting duck at the top of the straight, and she still kicked gamely in a 1/2L defeat to Pounamu.
There’s a stack of speed here, and she’s drawn well in barrier three, which means she can sit just off the leaders. When they fade halfway up the straight, and the backmarkers are coming, she may just be able to kick again and finish in the placings.
REPLAY - WHISPERING BROOK (3rd) - 4 November 2017 - Race 6 - 1400m - Ascot