Happy Event stakes claim for Melbourne

Saturday 27 February 2016, 2:59pm

Trainer John Zielke is already talking about the Melbourne spring carnival for Happy Event after the filly continued the stable's great run with two-year-olds.

Happy Event ($3) proved too strong for first starter Oink ($16) scoring by a short neck in the Winning Edge Handicap at Doomben on Saturday.

Zielke has had four individual two-year-old winners this season and all have been for his biggest client, the Dovedeen syndicate headed by Evan Hartley.

He said Happy Event would join stablemate Spot the Diff in the $100,000 QTIS Plate at the Gold Coast on March 12 but he had even better races in mind for the filly.

"We will put her through some of the feature two-year-old races in the winter and then she will join a couple of my other horses heading to Melbourne for the spring carnival," Zielke said.

He knows what it takes to win in Melbourne having a Listed race with Worthy Cause last year.

Trainer Kelly Schweida predicted a bright future for Oink who was having his first race start.

"He was probably one run short and he will go on from here," Schweida said.

– AAP

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