ONE year ago on Saturday, Flemington trainer Danny O'Brien left Caulfield confident that he was a real chance of winning a Caulfield or Melbourne Cup after an impressive first-up run from Vigor, reports The Age.It says: Vigor won the Craiglee Stakes at his next run but a wide gate in the Caulfield Cup and failure to gain a run in the Melbourne Cup meant O'Brien's hopes were dashed. Since then, O'Brien's plan has been to try to right the wrongs of last year with Vigor.After a light two-run autumn
ONE year ago on Saturday, Flemington trainer Danny O'Brien left Caulfield confident that he was a real chance of winning a Caulfield or Melbourne Cup after an impressive first-up run from Vigor, reports The Age.
It says: Vigor won the Craiglee Stakes at his next run but a wide gate in the Caulfield Cup and failure to gain a run in the Melbourne Cup meant O'Brien's hopes were dashed. Since then, O'Brien's plan has been to try to right the wrongs of last year with Vigor.
After a light two-run autumn campaign, the six-year-old, who will be ridden by James Winks, resumes in Saturday's Memsie Stakes at Caulfield, in what looks a major preliminary for the spring.
''We had no luck last year, first with the wide gate at Caulfield and then missing a run in the Melbourne Cup but I'm very pleased with him and he's going every bit as well as what he was last year,'' O'Brien said yesterday.
The group 2 Memsie Stakes over 1400 metres has attracted 19 nominations, including last year's Melbourne Cup winner Shocking, Cox Plate winner So You Think and boom Queenslander Shoot Out, who has a fitness edge on many of his rivals after winning first-up in the Bletchingly Stakes.