Rick Hore-Lacy will run Pinnacles in Saturday's Listed Anniversary Vase at Caulfield as a lead-up to another tilt at the $2 million Doncaster Mile.The five-year-old has returned to form at the right time for the Randwick Group One, a race he finished third in on a heavy track last year behind Triple Honour and Casino Prince after being a clear last of 20 runners on settling.The gelding ran a pleasing third behind Rockpecker and Doncaster $6.50 second favourite Whobegotyou after being disappointe
Rick Hore-Lacy will run Pinnacles in Saturday's Listed Anniversary Vase at Caulfield as a lead-up to another tilt at the $2 million Doncaster Mile.
The five-year-old has returned to form at the right time for the Randwick Group One, a race he finished third in on a heavy track last year behind Triple Honour and Casino Prince after being a clear last of 20 runners on settling.
The gelding ran a pleasing third behind Rockpecker and Doncaster $6.50 second favourite Whobegotyou after being disappointed for a run in the straight in the Listed Melbourne Food and Wine Plate (1400m) at Flemington on March 7.
A week later he scored a solid win over Sound Offer over the same track and distance prompting Hore-Lacy to aim for the Doncaster again.
He went into last year's Doncaster off a 1400m win at Caulfield but had two additional lead-up runs.
Weighted on 51kg as he was last year, Pinnacles is 27th in the order of entry and likely to gain a start.
There were 26 nominations for the $100,000 Anniversary Vase (1400m), the highest rated being Cox Plate runner-up Zipping (114), Caulfield Stakes winner Douro Valley (112), Queensland Oaks and Derby winner Riva San (106), smart Western Australian galloper Tarzi (105), Falaise (104), Reggie (104) and Pinnacles (103).
Tarzi, prepared by Neville Parnham, defeated Marasco by a half-length when he won last Saturday's Group Three weight-for-age Hyperion Stakes (1400m) at Ascot.
The Desert Prince six-year-old won three metropolitan races in Victoria as a two and three-year-old for the John Hawkes stable before being sold.
The gelding has won eight races in the west including two at Group Three level and two Listed races.
He chased home Takeover Target when a 2-3/4 length runner-up to the star sprinter in the Group Three A J Scahill Stakes (1400m) at Ascot in December, a race he won in 2007.
Others included eight-year-old Our Smoking Joe, now prepared at Mornington by Ray Coombes, and seven-year-old Molotov who is back with original trainer Jim Conlan after a stint with David Hayes.
The John Sadler-trained Zipping was also entered for the Ajax Hcp (1700m) as was stablemate C'est La Guerre.