Young iron horse Lucky Elmo will not only back up at Randwick on Saturday just three days after his gallant second at the same venue, he is also likely to go around the following week at Rosehill.Trainer Bindi Cheers confirmed the two-year-old would be lining up in Saturday's Sir Dapper Handicap (1600m) for what will be his 20th career start and his fifth this month.The Mull Of Kintyre youngster from Taree on the NSW north coast came within a short neck of the Peter Snowden-trained Lonhro debuta
Young iron horse Lucky Elmo will not only back up at Randwick on Saturday just three days after his gallant second at the same venue, he is also likely to go around the following week at Rosehill.
Trainer Bindi Cheers confirmed the two-year-old would be lining up in Saturday's Sir Dapper Handicap (1600m) for what will be his 20th career start and his fifth this month.
The Mull Of Kintyre youngster from Taree on the NSW north coast came within a short neck of the Peter Snowden-trained Lonhro debutant Heraklion in the North Bondi Handicap (1300m) on Wednesday.
"He'll be going around again Saturday," Cheers said.
"I think he enjoys racing ... I hope he does because I keep putting him in.
"As soon as he runs a bad race I'll freshen him up. He's already nominated for Rosehill in a 1400-metre race the week after and that's where he'll go.
"I was very proud of him on Wednesday but he was so unlucky, he just keeps striking one better."
Lucky Elmo is known for three things - being a rig, winning the first juvenile race of the season in September last year and being just about the most experienced two-year-old in the world.
The bay has provided a more than decent return on his purchase price of $400, having won three races and being placed eight times for just over $90,000 in prizemoney.
"He tries the best he possibly can with the ability he was born with and we love him for that," Cheers said.
The horsewoman said Lucky Elmo had done well since making the four-hour trip back from Randwick up the Pacific Highway to Taree.
"I just let him eat his dinner and breakfast and left well alone, and said goodbye and left him to his own devices in the paddock," Cheers said.
"We've got four or five in work and it's more of a fun thing for us than a business and we're certainly having fun with this horse and if everything goes well he'll have more starts as a three-year-old than he will as a two-year-old.
"Every horse is day-to-day and at this stage there is no reason to change anything, he's going along nicely."
After winning the first two-year-old race of the season at Tamworth on September 26, a sample showed an elevated level of the male hormone in Lucky Elmo.
Cheers provided documentation showing treatments given to Lucky Elmo and further tests were taken.
That was supported by Racing NSW senior veterinarian Dr Craig Suann who examined the horse and the results of pathology tests.
Stewards then directed Lucky Elmo be classed as a rig - a horse with an undescended testicle.