FOUR days after the country's best sprinting filly made her return to racing, Denman, who has the strongest claims as the best sprinting male three-year-old of the season, steps out in tomorrow's Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield, reports The Age.It says: Black Caviar thrashed her older rivals first-up in last Friday night's group 2 Australia Stakes to record her fifth win but Denman's trainer, Peter Snowden, was not so upbeat about his valuable colt's chances of victory in his first start since his
FOUR days after the country's best sprinting filly made her return to racing, Denman, who has the strongest claims as the best sprinting male three-year-old of the season, steps out in tomorrow's Zeditave Stakes at Caulfield, reports The Age.
It says: Black Caviar thrashed her older rivals first-up in last Friday night's group 2 Australia Stakes to record her fifth win but Denman's trainer, Peter Snowden, was not so upbeat about his valuable colt's chances of victory in his first start since his defeat as favourite in last October's Caulfield Guineas.
''The Australian Guineas is the race we have got him aimed wholly and solely for,'' Snowden said at the weekend. ''It's not his grand final on Tuesday - his grand final is in six weeks. I'd like to see him run well on Tuesday but if [he] gets beaten it's not the end of the world.''
But Tabcorp last night ranked Denman a $1.65 chance to win the 1200-metre listed race against his own age.
Snowden said Denman, who has won six of his eight starts, was on a four-run autumn campaign before he was rested, and will follow tomorrow's run with a start in either the group 1 weight-for-age Orr Stakes at Caulfield on February 6 or a three-year-old race also over 1400 metres on the same day. He will then wait two more weeks until the group 2 1400-metre Autumn Stakes and the same gap to the group 1 Cadbury Guineas (1600 metres) at Flemington. His main threat tomorrow looks to be the consistant Carrara, who beat Denman home at their only meeting in the Caulfield Guineas.