Ipswich set for bumper two-year-old clash

Thursday 16 June 2016, 11:31am

The clash of promising two-year-olds Sir Donald and Lauderdale threatens to steal the limelight from the older stakes race horses at Ipswich on Saturday.

Sir Donald and Lauderdale will both be having their second race starts when they clash in the Bundamba Plate (1100m).

The pair were the headline acts when they won heats of a two-year-old maiden over 1000m at Ipswich on May 25.

The Michael Nolan-trained Sir Donald, who is by top two-year-old sire I'm Invincible, ran faster time at 58.65secs with a final last 600m in a quick 33.43secs.

Nolan expects Sir Donald to have improved with the race experience.

"We have an opinion of him and he had won only an unofficial jump out before his win. He will have to take the next step now," he said.

The Matt Dunn-trained Lauderdale, a Rothesay gelding, ran a slower time of 59.53secs with his final sectional leader timed at 34.5 secs.

However, he was just as impressive as he had to race four and five deep and came from back in the field on a track which favoured leaders.

Dunn said Lauderdale was much better drawn for Saturday's race and could race closer.

"The barrier was always going to be a problem at his first race start and he had to go back but it was a good effort. He is still learning but I think he can win a better race," Dunn said.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »