Life To The Full to back up in Golden Mile

By LRN Staff

Trainer Dave Brunton will back up Life To The Full in Saturday's $125,000 Golden Mile at Bendigo but stablemate Lady Lynette will be reserved for the Group Two $200,000 Sunline Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday week.Brunton and his co-trainer son Scott, the leading trainers in Tasmania, have set up a base at Ballarat where they have leased part of a training property for three months and quickly got a result with Los Skybo who won at Moonee Valley on Monday.Life To The Full ran third at $71 to a

Brunton and his co-trainer son Scott, the leading trainers in Tasmania, have set up a base at Ballarat where they have leased part of a training property for three months and quickly got a result with Los Skybo who won at Moonee Valley on Monday.

Life To The Full ran third at $71 to another Golden Mile entry, Smokin' Joey, in the Listed Super Saturday Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on the weekend while Lady Lynette finished sixth to Spirit Song in the Group Three Matron Stakes (1600m).

"I just thought it was a nice race for him (Life To The Full) and it would clean him up for the Bendigo race on Saturday if he backs up alright as he has got issues," Brunton said.

"We're pretty happy with him, he just rolled up the hill this morning, he's going well."

The Flemington placing followed successive Listed placings by the Savoire Vivre seven-year-old to Youthful Jack when third in the Thomas Lyons Stakes (1400m) at Hobart and second in the George Adams Plate (1600m) at Launceston, both last month.

The gelding has won 11 of his 47 starts, including four Listed races, and more then $500,000 in stakemoney.

Brunton said the Sunline Stakes, a race Lady Lynette was runner-up in last year, could be the swansong for the seven-year-old daughter of Ladoni who has won 14 of her 48 starts and earned just under $1.1 million in prize money,

Lady Lynette was runner-up to Typhoon Tracy in the 2009 Group One VRC Myer Classic (1600m) and landed her best win in the Group Two VRC Rose Of Kingston Stakes (1400m) last spring.

Stablemate Sorrell Miss will run in the $90,000 Bendigo Gold Bracelet (1400m) having won over 1200m and run second to Rave Night over 1400m, both at Launceston.

Sorrell Miss was to fly out from Hobart on Tuesday night with Launceston Cup winner Prevailing and Buzzing Along who will run at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

"We've got a team of 60 horses in work at home at Seven Mile Beach with some pretty nice three and four-year-olds but we have run out of races for a few of them so we will put our foot in the water (in Victoria) and see how we go," Brunton said.

"If it works out well we'll stay on for six months or hopefully beyond that."

Also among the 36 entries for the Golden Mile (1600m) are Group Two winner Domesky, Dao Dao, Red Colossus, My Bentley, Speediness and Testascana.