Consistent mare Red Flair will be looking to top up her CV in the Group Two Sunline Stakes with her retirement only weeks away.Co-trained by Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra, the Testa Rossa mare has a handful of runs, at best, left in what is her last campaign before going to stud next season.Zahra said Friday night's Sunline Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley and the Group Three Victoria Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on April 23 would be among her last race appearances.Two starts ago Red Flair took
Consistent mare Red Flair will be looking to top up her CV in the Group Two Sunline Stakes with her retirement only weeks away.
Co-trained by Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra, the Testa Rossa mare has a handful of runs, at best, left in what is her last campaign before going to stud next season.
Zahra said Friday night's Sunline Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley and the Group Three Victoria Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on April 23 would be among her last race appearances.
Two starts ago Red Flair took the pressure off the stable when she landed the most important win of her career in the Group Three Mannerism Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
She has also been Group Three-placed twice and placed in Listed races twice in a career that has so far featured six wins and 13 placings from 34 starts for $440,000 in prizemoney.
"She's been a terrific mare," Zahra said. "We would love to have 20 like her."
Zahra said connections were treating any success she has from this point on as a bonus.
"Now that she has that Group win at Caulfield we will try anything with her," Zahra said.
"If it doesn't come off, it doesn't matter."
He said Red Flair was best suited on firm ground and that once the tracks soften up she would be retired.
"As soon as the wet tracks come she is finished," Zahra said.
Last start Red Flair was a brave second to Orbit Express when she took on the boys in the Listed TAB First Four Jackpot Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.
She is better suited against her sex in the Sunline but despite her consistency is on the sixth line of TAB Sportsbet's market at $12.
Adelaide-trained mare Majestic Music, who was a last-start fourth in the Listed CS Hayes Memorial Cup (1600m), is the $5.50 favourite.
Dual Moonee Valley winner Lady Lynette ($6.50) is rated the danger after two Tasmanian stakes wins this campaign and a last-start fifth to Pinker Pinker in the Group Three Schweppervescence Trophy (1600m) at Flemington.