WILL FOWNES & PREBBLE BE IN THE GREEN ZONE ON THURSDAY?
- The FastTracker
- Oct 5, 2011
- 1 min read
Whenever trainer Caspar Fownes and jockey Brett Prebble team up, well, one has to take notice.
Plus, after more hard luck in their unhappy hunting grounds on the weekend – Japan – they’d be looking to erase those memories of the door shutting abruptly and rudely on Lucky Nine.
On the special Thursday meeting at Happy Valley, they team up three times – on Peppermint, Many Gains and Green Zone.
As followers of the Fownes stable would know by now, the trainer has turned Many Gains into a real race horse.
Can it keep winning?
We doubt it, but who knows.
Peppermint carries top weight in a tough-looking race, but Fownes would not be legging Prebble aboard it for it to just go around and drop a few pounds.
It’s there to win.
However, the horse which this combination rides in Race 7 – Green Zone – is what made our eyes pop.
The last run of Green Zone last Wednesday was a real black-booker.
From Barrier 10 and over 1000 metes, it zoomed home to come third.
Known as Sparkle in Sydney, it was a regular ride for the now-suspended Tye Angland.
Angland knew and knows this horse inside-out.
Finally drawn a decent barrier for his short career till now in Hong Kong and going over 1200 metres – which it has always needed – one simply cannot leave it out.
With Prebble on board and with many having seen the last run, it might start at shorter odds than it should – but will go close to the money.
However, just for value, we wish Angland was on its back.
He would have made the horse – and the odds – Sparkle just that little bit more.
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