Former jockey Craig Carmody has been searching long and hard for bargains since making the transition to the training ranks and he believes he has found one in No Respite.The two-year-old Bel Esprit gelding was a $45,000 purchase at the Inglis Classic Sale and has been nominated for three races this week, including a maiden at Warwick Farm on Friday and the 1200 metre The Rosebud at Rosehill on Saturday.Carmody, an 11-time Group One winning jockey who started training in late 2005, said he would

Former jockey Craig Carmody has been searching long and hard for bargains since making the transition to the training ranks and he believes he has found one in No Respite.

The two-year-old Bel Esprit gelding was a $45,000 purchase at the Inglis Classic Sale and has been nominated for three races this week, including a maiden at Warwick Farm on Friday and the 1200 metre The Rosebud at Rosehill on Saturday.

Carmody, an 11-time Group One winning jockey who started training in late 2005, said he would most likely bypass The Rosebud in favour of a 1400 metre race on the same program.

"I think they might be a bit sharp for him in the Rosebud and he'll appreciate the extra distance in the Rating 75 race, that's what I'm leaning to at this stage," Carmody said.

No Respite is yet to win from four starts but has been placed three times including a long neck second to the promising Knot Out at Randwick on July 8 over 1150 metres.

The pair was so dominant that the third placed Flaming Rock was another five lengths away.

"He got held up slightly but he had his chance and the winner was too good on the day," Carmody said.

The Randwick trainer has five horses in work and is hoping No Respite can help lure prospective owners.

"Our budget has been pretty low since I've been training and I've been searching hard for bargains," Carmody said.

"But if you search long and hard enough you can find them and I think this horse has a future, hopefully he can put my name out there."

No Respite came from last on the turn at Randwick and made up plenty of ground in the heavy going and Carmody is hoping for plenty of early speed in Saturday's 1400 metre assignment.

"He's got a pattern of being a backmarker and has a great turn of foot, so that's the way we'll continue to ride him," Carmody said.

"He hasn't matured mentally yet and hasn't quite worked out how to start his race yet.

"Until he does he'll continue to be ridden cold."

As a jockey, Carmody was best known for his association with elite gallopers Intergaze and Angst.

Intergaze, who was trained by Carmody's former master Rod Craig, won eight Group One races, seven with Carmody aboard.

The Noel Mayfield-Smith trained Angst made a clean sweep of the four-race Princess series in 1993 before she tragically died after a throat operation.

The now retired Samantha Miss became the only filly to match the feat of Angst when she won all four legs of the 2008 Princess series.