Talented mare Plain Magic will need to show some of her old form before trainer Kelly Schweida raises the bar with her for the summer.Plain Magic, a Larry Cassidy mount, resumes in Saturday's Montrose Access Handicap (1110m) at Doomben following her last-start failure in the QTC Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm in June.The daughter of Magic Albert drew the outside barrier and sat off the pace until the home turn before weakening to finish last in the field of 15 in the Group Two feature won by the Mark
Talented mare Plain Magic will need to show some of her old form before trainer Kelly Schweida raises the bar with her for the summer.
Plain Magic, a Larry Cassidy mount, resumes in Saturday's Montrose Access Handicap (1110m) at Doomben following her last-start failure in the QTC Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm in June.
The daughter of Magic Albert drew the outside barrier and sat off the pace until the home turn before weakening to finish last in the field of 15 in the Group Two feature won by the Mark Kavanagh-trained Catapulted.
"I'm not sure what happened to her that day," Schweida said.
"She didn't have the best blood count after the race so we sent her to the paddock straight after the race."
Schweida has a good opinion of Plain Magic, who has won seven of her 18 starts including four consecutive victories last summer.
"She's got to find her old form before we start looking at any big races with her," Schweida said.
"She'll probably head towards the same fillies and mares race she won on Magic Millions days at the start of the year and then the same sort of races as last preparation.
"It'll probably only be a short campaign for her this time in as I'd like to think she'll go to the winter carnival if she finds her best form."
Plain Magic beat Gold Coast mare Kryptelon by three lengths in the Magic Millions Fillies and Mares race over 1300 metres on January 9.
She beat the same mare again when she won the Listed Nudgee Quality (1200m) at Eagle Farm two weeks later before downing star Toowoomba sprinter Chakvetadze at Doomben in early February.
Last campaign Plain Magic ran fourth when first-up to Graceful Anna in the Listed Silk Stocking (1200m) at the Gold Coast in May before finishing ninth in the Group Three BTC Sprint at Doomben won by Beaded before her QTC Cup failure.
Trainer Gillian Heinrich is looking forward to saddling topweight Ghetto Blaster against Plain Magic but will wait for another day with Rasmussen who will be scratched.
Ghetto Blaster has not started since finishing 15th to Black Piranha in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm in June but is progressing well after winning a recent jumpout at the Gold Coast.
Ghetto Blaster underlined his class during the winter by winning the Group Two Victory Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm in May.
"He's going good but he's a backmarker and hopefully there will be a lot of pace in this race," Heinrich said.
The Listed Goldmarket Handicap (1300m) at the Gold Coast in January will be the seven-year-old's main target during the summer.
"He ran eighth in the Goldmarket earlier this year but he had no luck and should have won," Heinrich said.
"There's a lot of races around for him but the Goldmarket is the race I want to win."