Trainer Mike Moroney is looking ahead to the Brisbane carnival with lightly-raced three-year-old Noble Park who has emerged as a Queensland Derby candidate after scoring at Sandown.The Pins gelding took time to make it to the track with his rangy physique but has now won two of his three starts and is set to improve as his races get longer.Part-owned by Rohan Aujard, Noble Park sports the same aqua, white and lime silks as stablemates Brazilian Pulse and King Pulse who will run on Saturday in Sy
Trainer Mike Moroney is looking ahead to the Brisbane carnival with lightly-raced three-year-old Noble Park who has emerged as a Queensland Derby candidate after scoring at Sandown.
The Pins gelding took time to make it to the track with his rangy physique but has now won two of his three starts and is set to improve as his races get longer.
Part-owned by Rohan Aujard, Noble Park sports the same aqua, white and lime silks as stablemates Brazilian Pulse and King Pulse who will run on Saturday in Sydney's AJC Australian Oaks and The Galaxy respectively.
"Hopefully this a very good omen," Moroney's racing manager Anthony Feroce said.
"We've always a had a good opinion of this horse and we think he has a very bright future.
"Mike's looking at taking him to Queensland for the Derby if he comes through this run okay."
Noble Park won a 1208-metre maiden at his Sale race debut on February 25 and was an eye-catching fifth when he got back too far in a slowly-run race over 1300 metres at Sandown on March 23.
Craig Williams took the initiative in Wednesday's Schweppes Hcp (1600m) when he adopted a frontrunning role on Noble Park who held on to score a three-quarter length win over Quadrant and Stroemsky.
Feroce said Noble Park, who is from winning Danehill mare Sheza Gem, was bought for $70,000 as a stayer.
The Queensland Derby (2400m) is at Eagle Farm on June 11.
"It is going to be a rushed preparation to get him there but that is our plan," Feroce said.
Williams said he rode Noble Park before his first race start and earmarked him then as a horse to follow.
"He's still big and rangy but the way Mike is bringing him along he will develop into a really nice horse," Williams said.
Trainer Robert Hickmott was fined $600 for bringing Devised to the races wearing work shoes and stewards ordered the gelding's scratching.
Meanwhile, Quadrant's second place denied his sire Lonhro and the Peter Snowden stable a winning treble at Sandown.
The stable and sire won the New Litho Hcp (1200m) with two-year-old first starter Euryale and completed a double when Shelters landed The Cove Hotel Hcp (1200m).
Paul Snowden said both fillies were exciting prospects.
Ridden by Mark Zahra, Euryale scored a three-quarter length win over Choisir debutante Manhattan Maid and Bendigo winner Hex.
Zahra also rode Shelters who made it two wins in a row from three starts when she scored by a barely detectable margin from the fast-finishing Peter Moody-trained Volanda.
Snowden said inexperience nearly cost Shelters the race when she appeared to get lost when she hit the front.
"She wanted to pull up and her ears were going everywhere like the hands of a clock," Snowden said.
"She is definitely stakes grade, and maybe even little bit better."
Shelters' dam, Hut, was Group Two-placed three times while Euryale's dam, Meduesa, was city-placed and her grand-dam Group One Flight Stakes winner Danglissa.