MUDGEE horseman Tracey Bartley is changing course with great money-spinner Sniper's Bullet after the gelding's dashing victory in Saturday's $1 million Railway Stakes in Perth, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: The victory was the first for Sniper's Bullet since he won the $1 million Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm in 2007. In that time, the home-bred Sniper's Bullet has been to the races 19 times and picked up $463,975 in prizemoney.The Railway Stakes win made up for his second in th

MUDGEE horseman Tracey Bartley is changing course with great money-spinner Sniper's Bullet after the gelding's dashing victory in Saturday's $1 million Railway Stakes in Perth, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

It says: The victory was the first for Sniper's Bullet since he won the $1 million Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm in 2007. In that time, the home-bred Sniper's Bullet has been to the races 19 times and picked up $463,975 in prizemoney.

The Railway Stakes win made up for his second in the group 1 last year but this time around Bartley isn't heading to the Kingston Town Classic in a fortnight.

Sniper's Bullet finished third in the Kingston Town (1800 metres) last year but Bartley is eyeing off the AJ Scahill Stakes on December 12. ''He has pulled up good and I prefer the Scahill over the 1400 metres,'' Bartley told The West Australian.

Bartley and jockey Nash Rawiller hatched an aggressive riding plan, with the jockey carrying it out to perfection on Sniper's Bullet, which left a tale of woe in his trail.

The $4 favourite Gold Salute beat home only two runners under Damien Oliver, with the galloper ripping a shoe off his right front foot along with a section of his hoof.

The second favourite, Emirates Stakes winner All American, finished 11th after being escorted to the start by the clerk of the course, with trainer David Hayes ruing that decision. ''He fell in love with the clerk of the course,'' Hayes said in regard to the stallion's poor effort. ''He didn't want to leave it, he got agitated.''

Hayes said All American would be returning home with an autumn campaign in mind, while stablemate Largo Lad, which finished 12th, would stick around for the Kingston Town Stakes.