Well-fancied All Silent may miss Sat's Doomben 10,000. Connections are not keen to run him on a badly rain-affected track, and that's how it's likely to be unless Brisbane's current rainy weather suddenly dries up. On Tuesday night, it was still pouring. Trainer Grahame Begg says: 'The rain has thrown our plans into chaos...We were unable to work him this morning and he really needed the gallop because he hasn't done a great deal since working on the course proper at Randwick last Wednesday...Ho
Well-fancied All Silent may miss Sat's Doomben 10,000. Connections are not keen to run him on a badly rain-affected track, and that's how it's likely to be unless Brisbane's current rainy weather suddenly dries up. On Tuesday night, it was still pouring. Trainer Grahame Begg says: 'The rain has thrown our plans into chaos...We were unable to work him this morning and he really needed the gallop because he hasn't done a great deal since working on the course proper at Randwick last Wednesday...Hopefully we may get the chance to work him at Eagle Farm tomorrow but they are forecasting more rain tonight and a thunderstorm so it could go either way.' The options? All Silent can line up in Saturday week's Grp 2 QTC Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm before backing up seven days later in the Grp 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m).
Brisbane's heavy rain -- still pelting down at 11pm on Tuesday -- is also likely to put an early end to trainer Tony Noonan's hopes of running exciting Victorian filly Ortensia in the Doomben 10,000.