Brothers Rightfully Yours and Heart Of Dreams will be looking to pull off a feature race double for the second time when they contest the Group Two Blamey Stakes and Group One Australian Cup respectively at Flemington.They face a similar scenario on Saturday to last September when on the same day Rightfully Yours won first-up in the Listed South Yarra Stakes (1200m) and Heart Of Dreams took out the Group One Underwood Stakes (1800m).Both horses are by Show A Heart from Royal Academy mare Academy
Brothers Rightfully Yours and Heart Of Dreams will be looking to pull off a feature race double for the second time when they contest the Group Two Blamey Stakes and Group One Australian Cup respectively at Flemington.
They face a similar scenario on Saturday to last September when on the same day Rightfully Yours won first-up in the Listed South Yarra Stakes (1200m) and Heart Of Dreams took out the Group One Underwood Stakes (1800m).
Both horses are by Show A Heart from Royal Academy mare Academy Of Dreams with five-year-old Rightfully Yours a year older than Heart Of Dreams.
While Rightfully Yours is yet to win a Group One race he has proved a more than useful performer winning nine of his 22 starts.
A last-start Group Three winner of the Carlyon Cup (1400m) when resuming at Caulfield, the gelding is chasing his most important success in the Blamey and will be on trial for a crack at similar races in Sydney later this autumn.
Price said Rightfully Yours was in the best shape of his career and said that potentially this would be his best campaign yet.
"He is bigger and stronger this preparation after benefiting from a good spell late last year," Price said.
Rightfully Yours raced only four times in the spring for a win and two seconds after illness hindered his training.
He was spelled after finishing eighth to All American in the Group One Emirates Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.
"Last time in he had a cold for a while and wasn't as strong and robust, but he is in really good order now," Price said.
Price worked overtime to get Rightfully Yours to win first-up in the Carlyon Cup after his connections gave two weeks notice that it was the preferred option to the Listed Hareeba Stakes (1200m) at Mornington.
After racing second most of the way, Rightfully Yours held on by a short head to beat Road To Rock.
"That run will have improved him for sure and we just have to keep him in the right races and keep him winning," Price said.
Rightfully Yours is $4.40 with TAB Sportsbet to win the Blamey behind Futurity Stakes runner-up Dao Dao ($2.50).
Heart Of Dreams, who is looking to win his third Group One race, is favourite for the Australian Cup at $5.50.