HE MIGHT not yet have the aura of celebrated stablemates, but unbeaten Darley three-year-old Pied A Terre is likely to take another step up in class when he takes on the older horses in the Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, reports The Age. It says: Pied A Terre is also entered against his own age in the Elms Handicap over the same distance where he is topweight with 60 kilograms. But trainer Peter Snowden's son and Melbourne foreman, Paul, said that taking on the older horses w
HE MIGHT not yet have the aura of celebrated stablemates, but unbeaten Darley three-year-old Pied A Terre is likely to take another step up in class when he takes on the older horses in the Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, reports The Age.
It says: Pied A Terre is also entered against his own age in the Elms Handicap over the same distance where he is topweight with 60 kilograms. But trainer Peter Snowden's son and Melbourne foreman, Paul, said that taking on the older horses was the likely option.
''If he hadn't won first-up, we would have kept him to his own age. But once he won it was always likely that we would step him up again,'' Snowden said. ''We'll have a good look at the fields and the weights, but I'd say, at this stage he's 70 per cent sure to run in the Manifold.''
Heading the weights of the 15 nominations for the Manifold is the Robbie Griffiths-trained Danzylum (60 kilograms), who is aiming for an unprecedented third straight win in the race but will contend with a 5 kilogram weight rise from last year.