DARLEY is hoping to send Mental, Ambidexter and Free Wheeling off as group 1 winners after the final carnival day at Flemington on Saturday, reports The Age. ''We're locked and loaded and we just need a bit of luck,'' Darley's Melbourne foreman Paul Snowden said. ''We have chances in the group 1s and four in the three-year-olds' race [the Hilton Hotels Stakes], so we should come away with something.'' The trio is part of a dispatch of horses that will head north to join Godolphin after the carni
DARLEY is hoping to send Mental, Ambidexter and Free Wheeling off as group 1 winners after the final carnival day at Flemington on Saturday, reports The Age.
''We're locked and loaded and we just need a bit of luck,'' Darley's Melbourne foreman Paul Snowden said. ''We have chances in the group 1s and four in the three-year-olds' race [the Hilton Hotels Stakes], so we should come away with something.''
The trio is part of a dispatch of horses that will head north to join Godolphin after the carnival.
Mental contests the Patinack Farm Classic but it is the Emirates Stakes where Darley could have a two-pronged attack if Free Wheeling, the first emergency, can get a run. Free Wheeling was beaten by Emirates favourite Fawkner in the final race on Derby day and Darley is disappointed he did not make the field for the $1 million group 1 mile.
''It would be great if Free Wheeling got in because he had no real chance the way the race was run last week,'' Snowden said. ''He gave the other horse [Fawkner] the suck into the race and was left a sitting duck. I think if you change the position in the run you change the result. The mile will really suit him.''
Ambidexter will wear blinkers for the first time in the Emirates in search of an edge that could turn him into a group 1 winner. He was runner-up in the Epsom two starts back. (www.theage.com.au)