TRAINER Gai Waterhouse may have dominated yesterday's Randwick barrier trials in Sydney by winning more than half the program, but it was the gifted Anthony Cummings-trained three-year-old Smart Missile who emerged as the star attraction, reports The Age. It says: Waterhouse won 10 of the 17 trials, which included a win by her Caulfield Cup-winning stayer Descarado, but all the attention seemed centred on the reappearance of Smart Missile. Jockey Glen Boss was so eager to stay aboard the colt th
TRAINER Gai Waterhouse may have dominated yesterday's Randwick barrier trials in Sydney by winning more than half the program, but it was the gifted Anthony Cummings-trained three-year-old Smart Missile who emerged as the star attraction, reports The Age.
It says: Waterhouse won 10 of the 17 trials, which included a win by her Caulfield Cup-winning stayer Descarado, but all the attention seemed centred on the reappearance of Smart Missile. Jockey Glen Boss was so eager to stay aboard the colt that he flew into Sydney yesterday specifically to ride him in the 740-metre trial, in which the youngster cruised away to win by 1╝ lengths.
Much has been spoken about Smart Missile, who is the only horse to conquer the Blue Diamond-Golden Slipper hero Sepoy during the autumn, and who was a controversial late scratching from the Slipper after being sensationally backed. But the bitter disappointment of the Golden Slipper was very much in the past as Smart Missile labelled himself the rising three-old-old star of the spring.
So impressed in the colt is Boss in the sone of Fastnet Rock that he will be in Sydney to ride him first-up in the group 3 Run To The Rose (1200 metres) on August 27, forgoing the first-up ride on AJC Derby winner Shamrocker in Melbourne on the same day. ''You won't be getting me off him,'' Boss said after Smart Missile treated his rivals with contempt.