Mount Nebo earns Weetwood Handicap start

Saturday 18 April 2015, 4:33pm

Wyong galloper Mount Nebo will be given his chance in stakes company after maintaining an unbeaten Queensland record at Doomben on Saturday.

Starting favourite, Mount Nebo ($2.70) was given the run of the race by jockey Damian Browne before scoring a regulation win in the Canadian Club Handicap (1200m).

Mount Nebo won his only previous Queensland start at the Sunshine Coast two weeks ago and the five-year-old was helped by an overnight shower which left the Doomben track in the slow range.

Trained by Allan Denham, Mount Nebo has won only one of his 16 starts on good tracks but has never been out of the place on soft and heavy going.

Denham wasn't trackside but stable spokesman Len Wheeler said Mount Nebo would be set for the Listed Weetwood Handicap (1200m) at Toowoomba on May 2.

"He is a nice horse and he can take up a position so he should be suited in a race like the Weetwood," Wheeler said.

Trainer Tony Gollan is still deciding whether to start Trakstar in the Listed Toowoomba Cup (2150m) on the same day.

Trakstar ($3.30) responded to a brilliant ride from jockey Jim Byrne to win the Coke Zero Handicap (1630m).

Gollan said Byrne's decision to press forward after being caught deep in the early stages had proved a winning one.

"I could run Trakstar in the Toowoomba Cup but I have to make up my mind whether he is a 2000-metre horse or a 1600-metre horse," Gollan said.

Byrne brought up a winning double when the Clarry Conners-trained mare Magic Jewel ($5.50) won the Jim Beam Handicap.

"The moment I saw her in the parade ring I knew she would be hard to beat. She looked beautiful," Byrne said.

"I go back a long way with Clarry and I can't begin to estimate how many winners I have ridden for him."

– AAP

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