TAKEOVER Target may have run his last race but Kembla Grange trainer Paul Murray is intent on continuing his remarkable story this spring with the great sprinter's half-brother Predatory Pricer, reports Andrew Eddy in The Age.His report adds: The rising four-year-old, whose dam Shady Stream is also the mother of Takeover Target, arrives in Ballarat next week to begin a long spring preparation that will begin with next month's Liston Stakes at Caulfield and end, hopefully, with a run in either th

TAKEOVER Target may have run his last race but Kembla Grange trainer Paul Murray is intent on continuing his remarkable story this spring with the great sprinter's half-brother Predatory Pricer, reports Andrew Eddy in The Age.

His report adds: The rising four-year-old, whose dam Shady Stream is also the mother of Takeover Target, arrives in Ballarat next week to begin a long spring preparation that will begin with next month's Liston Stakes at Caulfield and end, hopefully, with a run in either the Caulfield Cup or the following week in the Cox Plate in late October.

But while Takeover Target, who has been retired, won group sprint races in three countries, his half-brother, by Whobegotyou's sire Street Cry, could not be more dissimilar, according to Murray. "They are absolutely nothing alike, not in looks or the way they race," Murray said yesterday. "But the good thing is that both can gallop. It's just that my horse likes it a lot longer."

Predatory Pricer ran third in the AJC Derby and fourth in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes against the older horses before going for a spell and Murray said he had thrived in the few weeks he had been in the paddock. "I can see a lot of improvement in this horse," he said.