Southerly Buster ready to upset favourites at Newcastle

A talented four-year-old is set to return with a bang and upset more fancied market rivals at Monday’s Newcastle meeting on the Beaumont track.

Southerly Buster is a lightly raced son of Group 1-winning French sire Vadamoss, and could cap a big day for the Scone-based Scott Singleton stable in a Benchmark 66 Hcp over 1350m to close the program.

Racing returns to Newcastle’s Beaumont track on Monday.Credit: Jenny Evans

The gelding hasn’t raced since early June when winning the second of two straight races in a Class 1 at Warren to cap an encouraging initial campaign.

Given plenty of time, he finished off nicely in a competitive Scone trial a fortnight ago after drifting well back and covering plenty of ground for much of the journey.

It was the effort of a galloper well-fitted to run this distance out fresh, and ultimately get over far more ground.

Southerly Buster opened on the third line of betting around $5.50 – behind Scone rivals Ready And Lucky $3.80 and Trapeze Legend $5.00 – and drew to get plenty of cover early in the race.

The Singleton camp accepted for two other starters, Zoomorphic ($7.50) who is second-up off an even return at Muswellbrook, and at much longer odds six-year-old Zahdi who is deep into the current campaign.

A win for Southerly Buster could well bookend the meeting for the Singleton yard.

In the opening Maiden Hcp over 1350m, progressive filly Rainbow Blessing looks hard to beat third-up, again from a low draw with Christian Reith in the saddle.

Rainbow Blessing has been narrowly beaten in two runs back at Tamworth and Scone after a one-off debut run in May.

Loading

But the biggest cheers around the Beaumont track will be saved for local hope and well-named three-year-old Newy who resumes for only his third start for the Kris Lees stable in a Maiden Plate over 1150m.

Given two easy trials, Newy is by Group 1-winning sprinter Flying Artie, and has a massive ownership group of well over 100.

Supplied by Racing NSW
Full form and race replays available at racingnsw.com.au

Most Viewed in Sport

Loading