HE MAY be worth $20 million according to trainer Gai Waterhouse, but don't bank on the regally bred Manhattan Rain winning at Flemington on Saturday, reports The Age.Its report adds: Waterhouse said she would add blinkers to the horse's gear for the group 2 Danehill Stakes after a lacklustre trial at Flemington yesterday. The colt showed little dash and appeared to lose focus under jockey Nash Rawiller in a four-horse 800-metre jump-out down the straight course.He was easily held by fellow Daneh

HE MAY be worth $20 million according to trainer Gai Waterhouse, but don't bank on the regally bred Manhattan Rain winning at Flemington on Saturday, reports The Age.

Its report adds: Waterhouse said she would add blinkers to the horse's gear for the group 2 Danehill Stakes after a lacklustre trial at Flemington yesterday. The colt showed little dash and appeared to lose focus under jockey Nash Rawiller in a four-horse 800-metre jump-out down the straight course.

He was easily held by fellow Danehill Stakes candidate Grand Harmony and the filly Rostova in an effort Waterhouse said lacked spark. ''We would have loved to see him jump and dash up the straight but it wasn't like that. It was a bit like 'well, here I am','' she said.

''Back in Sydney he probably would have worked more brilliantly but he's in an area he's not sure of. He's certainly a lovely colt to do anything with and I'm confident he'll run very well down here over the spring. But I don't know whether he'll take a race or two to do that.''

Manhattan Rain had six runs as a two-year-old and won the AJC Sires' Produce Stakes, as well as being placed in the other two legs of the triple crown - the Golden Slipper and Champagne Stakes. The three-year-old half-brother to super stallion Redoute's Choice is by two-time champion sire Encosta De Lago. ''He's the most valuable horse in Australia. There is no more valuable colt anywhere in the southern hemisphere,'' Waterhouse said.