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It’s not often a promising galloper bypasses a group 3 race on Saturday to tackle a Class 1 Handicap at the provincials on Monday.
Yet that’s the 48-hour detour for promising three-year-old Southern Prince, which is primed to land consecutive wins at Monday’s delayed Kembla Grange meeting.
Trainers Annabel and Rob Archibald.Credit: Getty Images
The program on a firm surface with the rail out a long way was transferred from Saturday after a section of the track in the straight was deemed unsafe.
It looms as another stepping stone for this son of multiple Group 1 winner Trapeze Artist from the Annabel and Rob Archibald stable at Warwick Farm.
Fresh from a first-up flashing maiden win at Kembla over 1400m where he beat home Waerea, which is considered a big chance in an earlier race, Southern Prince was scratched from Saturday’s feature Group 3 Gloaming Stakes (1800m) at Rosehill.
Instead, she will tackle a far more modest line-up over a mile and is the only runner in the field on the limit weight after jockey Mollie Fitzgerald’s 1.5kg claim.
Meanwhile, progressive four-year-old mare Missie Lee will also be out to notch consecutive wins when she tackles a Class 1 Handicap over 1000m.
And victory would be a real soother for Hawkesbury-based trainer Blake Ryan, which had to watch his smart mare Strawberry Impact charge home into a luckless fourth place in Saturday’s Midway Handicap over 1400m.
Missie Lee has been given 25 days since finishing best to claim her maiden here, clocking a slick 57.30 seconds, and 33.40 seconds for her last 600m, only fractionally slower than the times by the winner of the BM 64 over 1000m that day.
Certainly, the form behind her from that race has been rock solid since.
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