TOORAK Toff has taken a significant step towards his comeback race in Sunday week's Group 1 Goodwood in Adelaide, reports the Courier-Mail in Brisbane.It says: Toorak Toff demolished his rivals in a jumpout at Caulfield, but the most telling aspect for trainer Rick Hore-Lacy was that the three-year-old didn't make a sound. While race-day pressure is much more intense, Hore-Lacy said Toorak Toff's throat operation late last year had been successful.Hore-Lacy was forced to abandon Australian Guine
TOORAK Toff has taken a significant step towards his comeback race in Sunday week's Group 1 Goodwood in Adelaide, reports the Courier-Mail in Brisbane.
It says: Toorak Toff demolished his rivals in a jumpout at Caulfield, but the most telling aspect for trainer Rick Hore-Lacy was that the three-year-old didn't make a sound. While race-day pressure is much more intense, Hore-Lacy said Toorak Toff's throat operation late last year had been successful.
Hore-Lacy was forced to abandon Australian Guineas hopes when the colt was diagnosed with a respiratory condition - making him a "roarer" - after his first-up December run at Flemington. All the indications are that Toorak Toff, winner of the Group 1 Golden Rose at Rosehill in August and favourite when fourth in the Caulfield Guineas, has made a complete recovery.
"We think he's going at least as well, if not better, than when he won the Golden Rose," Hore-Lacy said. "He's not making the slightest bit of noise and hasn't at any time this preparation. We think that breathing problem could have been affecting him, even in the Golden Rose."