TRAINER Mick Price was yesterday making arrangements for his star filly Samaready to go to the spelling paddock, but his disappointment at her premature exit from a spring carnival that promised so much has been soothed by the form of stable favourite Heart Of Dreams, reports The Age. The seven-year-old dual group 1 winner has, for many seasons, given Price reasons to look forward no matter what the setback and so it was yesterday when the trainer revealed that Samaready was ''99 per cent'' cert
TRAINER Mick Price was yesterday making arrangements for his star filly Samaready to go to the spelling paddock, but his disappointment at her premature exit from a spring carnival that promised so much has been soothed by the form of stable favourite Heart Of Dreams, reports The Age.
The seven-year-old dual group 1 winner has, for many seasons, given Price reasons to look forward no matter what the setback and so it was yesterday when the trainer revealed that Samaready was ''99 per cent'' certain to be spelled for the spring after discussions with her owner and breeder Peter Orton from Vinery Stud.
''He [Orton] was of the opinion that she's struggled to come up for the spring, as happens with some fillies,'' Price said of last season's Blue Diamond Stakes winner. ''We've given her time for her to bloom and it hasn't happened and she's got a bug and things just aren't working out for her so the autumn's a good time for fillies and that's most probably when you'll see her next.''
Price today saddles the durable Heart Of Dreams in the Memsie Stakes, the race the horse lost narrowly last year to Peter Moody's mare King's Rose. Despite his age, Heart Of Dreams is lightly raced with today being just his 30th start. Price said yesterday that the winner of $1.65 million in stakes was showing no signs of slowing down.