Sydney's weather will dictate if Gold Coast trainer Trevor Whittington encounters better fortune than he did during his last visit south.Whittington is in town with talented mare Femina Fashion as a last-ditch effort to have her in prime condition for a $200,000 race on Magic Millions day next week."It is a hit-and-run trip. We left home on Thursday afternoon and we'll be on the road again Sunday morning," Whittington said.Femina Fashion has won in slow going but Whittington says she is a wet-tr
Sydney's weather will dictate if Gold Coast trainer Trevor Whittington encounters better fortune than he did during his last visit south.
Whittington is in town with talented mare Femina Fashion as a last-ditch effort to have her in prime condition for a $200,000 race on Magic Millions day next week.
"It is a hit-and-run trip. We left home on Thursday afternoon and we'll be on the road again Sunday morning," Whittington said.
Femina Fashion has won in slow going but Whittington says she is a wet-track duffer who was well below her best in heavy conditions in the Bernborough Handicap at Doomben on Boxing Day.
"She's hopeless in the mud ... she couldn't pick her feet up in the Bernborough," Whittington said.
Randwick was rated in the dead range at acceptance time but a forecast for possible showers has the potential to dash the trainer's hopes of finding a firm racing surface.
Whittington was last in Sydney with Golden Fox, a $1000 bargain buy with two stakes wins alongside his name who was never the same racehorse after a confrontation with a Randwick stable dog during the 2005 spring carnival.
"Nothing went right when I took Golden Fox down," Whittington said.
"He got attacked by a dog as I was putting him on the float to race in the Up And Coming Stakes at Warwick Farm."
Providing clear skies prevail in Sydney, Whittington has high expectations for Femina Fashion in the ticketek.com.au Handicap (1800m).
"As long as the track is OK I think she will race very well," he said.
Femina Fashion held her own with the best three-year-old fillies during last year's Brisbane winter carnival.
Her midfield placing in the Queensland Oaks was the only blemish in a campaign which produced a black-type result with her Gold Coast Bracelet victory.
"She didn't stay the distance (2400m) in the Oaks," Whittington said.
"I'm not saying she won't get over that sort of trip one day but I've got the feeling she is going to be a very good 2000-metre horse."
Femina Fashion, a proven on-pace runner, has drawn the rails at Randwick with non-claiming apprentice Brenton Avdulla taking the ride.