Lightly-raced mare Wickedly gets her chance to realise her potential this campaign after recovering from a back complaint which prematurely ended her spring preparation last year.Trainer John Moloney said there was good upside to the six-year-old who will having only her 14th start when she resumes in Wednesday's Betfair Handicap (1300m) at Sandown."We are certainly looking for a better go with her this time around," Moloney said."She definitely has good promise but didn't quite come up last tim
Lightly-raced mare Wickedly gets her chance to realise her potential this campaign after recovering from a back complaint which prematurely ended her spring preparation last year.
Trainer John Moloney said there was good upside to the six-year-old who will having only her 14th start when she resumes in Wednesday's Betfair Handicap (1300m) at Sandown.
"We are certainly looking for a better go with her this time around," Moloney said.
"She definitely has good promise but didn't quite come up last time after a good first-up run at Cranbourne."
Wickedly has run some of her best races when fresh, including last campaign when a fast-finishing fourth against 72-class horses at Cranbourne in October.
At her previous campaign she won first-up at Moe while at her race debut she was third at Geelong.
Her only two city runs have been at Sandown in April and May last year when she finished third over 1500 metres and fifth over 2100m respectively.
"She handled the heavy track okay at Cranbourne and she may be able to run into the money on Wednesday," Moloney said.
Wickedly at 71 is among the higher-rated runners on Wednesday along with Bubble Below (75), She's Good As Gold (74), Thrillionaire (73) and Cool Diva (72).
Meanwhile, Matt Laurie will be looking to get a city winning run going when Coolago runs in the Trevaskis Handicap (1200m).
Laurie trained his first Saturday Melbourne winner last weekend when The Big Steel scored at Caulfield.
Coolago has been consistent this campaign and has twice posted seconds at Sandown in the last two months.
The gelding chased home Tasmanian Lake Crescent on June 2 and last start led and was run down by Adaptor on July 21.
Mornington-based Laurie trains about 25 horses and had 13 winners last season.
Trainers Chris Hyland and Colin Little are both likely to avoid the heavy track at Sandown with their respective horses Miss Phromily and Poco Gusto in the Ahern's At Highways Handicap (1600m).
Hyland said Miss Phromily, a last-start Moonee Valley placegetter, was nominated for Flemington this Saturday but was most likely to run at Randwick over 1800m the same day.
Little said Poco Gusto, who has run second at his three provincial runs this campaign, was likely to run in Saturday's Natalie Short and Nicholas Ward Handicap (1800m) at Flemington.