Leading trainer Peter Moody will try to resurrect the career of 2009 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort, starting in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield this month.The rising four-year-old hasn't raced since finishing seventh to Phelan Ready in the 2009 Golden Slipper Stakes in heavy going at Rosehill 15 months ago.The Exceed And Excel colt was in work for last year's spring carnival but had to be turned out after suffering a suspensory ligament injury.Reward For Effort had stem ce
Leading trainer Peter Moody will try to resurrect the career of 2009 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort, starting in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield this month.
The rising four-year-old hasn't raced since finishing seventh to Phelan Ready in the 2009 Golden Slipper Stakes in heavy going at Rosehill 15 months ago.
The Exceed And Excel colt was in work for last year's spring carnival but had to be turned out after suffering a suspensory ligament injury.
Reward For Effort had stem cell treatment and Moody has given him plenty of time to recover.
The colt has done a lot of time in the water walker and has been in work since early May.
"He's had a jump-out at Caulfield and he will have one more to tidy him up," said Moody's stable manager Jeff O'Connor.
"He seems to have come back as good as ever but racing will tell us that."
Reward For Effort, who has raced only four times for two wins and a second placing, will be the first of a wave of Moody's stars to appear leading up to the spring carnival.
These include horse-of-the-year candidate Typhoon Tracy, Headway, the unbeaten Black Caviar, Tickets, Set For Fame, Hanks and Willow Creek.
Imported mare Ghostmilk is likely to be tried in better class races during the spring after she completed a hat-trick of city wins in the thinkbigstud.com.au Hcp (1500m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday.