Gold Coast trainer Alan Bailey was successful with Cornwall Park at Randwick two weeks ago and is looking for the same result with lightly-raced three-year-old Fantastic Force on Saturday.Bailey will start Fantastic Force, a son of Zabeel, in the Inghams Enterprises Handicap on the back of two straight wins in lesser company in Queensland.The colt is expected to be suited by the step up to 1600m at Randwick where he'll take on his own age including last-start winner All Legal and Darley duo Buff
Gold Coast trainer Alan Bailey was successful with Cornwall Park at Randwick two weeks ago and is looking for the same result with lightly-raced three-year-old Fantastic Force on Saturday.
Bailey will start Fantastic Force, a son of Zabeel, in the Inghams Enterprises Handicap on the back of two straight wins in lesser company in Queensland.
The colt is expected to be suited by the step up to 1600m at Randwick where he'll take on his own age including last-start winner All Legal and Darley duo Buffalo and Daytona Beach.
"I would have run him up here (in Queensland) but he hasn't got enough prizemoney and has been getting balloted out," Bailey said.
"Being smaller fields down there I decided I'd send him down and try him there.
"He's racing well and he's got a bit of ability, otherwise he wouldn't be going. I think he'll run us a nice race down there."
Fantastic Force has won three of his five starts including his past two but has never raced on anything worse than a dead track so far.
That will change on Saturday as Randwick was rated a heavy (9) on Thursday with 42mm of rain falling at the track in the past week.
Barrier trials set down for Randwick on Friday morning have also been abandoned.
Fantastic Force failed to figure first-up this preparation in a 1200m Class Two at Ipswich last month but turned that around by racing to a 5-1/2 length win second-up in a 1400m 3YO Handicap at the Gold Coast.
Bailey ventured back to Ipswich with the three-year-old at his most recent start when he took out a 1350m Class Two by almost two lengths.
"Both his wins have been good," Bailey said.
"They have been against lower class but he has beaten them quite easily.
"I took him to Ipswich last start because I was thinking of taking him back there last weekend (on Ipswich Cup day) for the three-year-old race, which I won with Rokatoko anyway, but he wouldn't have got a run."
Bailey doesn't travel horses to Sydney very often but has been successful bringing the odd horse south in recent years.
Cornwall Park took his record to eight wins from 12 starts when he won a Benchmark 90 over 1600m on a slow (6) at Randwick on June 12.
Bailey also prepared Charming Rogue, Frozone and Moulin Lady for Sydney wins in the 2008/09 racing season.