A HEAVY autumn fog may have prevented Jason Warren from running the stopwatch over Bel Sprinter's track gallop at Sandown yesterday, but the trainer only needed to see the smile on jockey Ben Melham's face after the workout to realise that his stable star was back on track, reports The Age. It says: Forced to scratch Bel Sprinter from the Newmarket Stakes three weeks ago, after the horse kicked a post and took skin off a hind leg, Warren is confident of a good performance when he sends the four-
A HEAVY autumn fog may have prevented Jason Warren from running the stopwatch over Bel Sprinter's track gallop at Sandown yesterday, but the trainer only needed to see the smile on jockey Ben Melham's face after the workout to realise that his stable star was back on track, reports The Age.
It says: Forced to scratch Bel Sprinter from the Newmarket Stakes three weeks ago, after the horse kicked a post and took skin off a hind leg, Warren is confident of a good performance when he sends the four-year-old to Sydney this weekend for the group 2 Challenge Stakes as he seeks to get Bel Sprinter's autumn campaign back in motion.
''I'm pretty confident that he is back to where he was before he won first-up at Caulfield, I'm looking forward to taking him to Sydney and I'm sure he'll run well,'' said Warren. (www.theage.com.au)