Williams gets another sit on Admire Deus

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 12:43pm

Every trip Craig Williams makes to Werribee to partner his Caulfield and Melbourne mount Admire Deus the better understanding he gets of the stayer.

Williams rode the Darren Weir-trained Japanese import at the Werribee quarantine centre on Tuesday, the fourth time he's been aboard Admire Deus since his arrival in Australia.

The champion jockey first got to ride Admire Deus in Japan before he entered quarantine for his trip to Melbourne.

The Australian Bloodstock-owned Admire Deus has been at Werribee for almost two weeks and finishes his stay on Saturday before heading to Weir's stable for the week leading up to the $3 million Caulfield Cup (2400m) on October 21.

Williams said Amire Deus, an $11 chance in the Caulfield Cup and equal second favourite at $13 for the Melbourne Cup, was a strong and determined stayer.

"He's got amazing capacity, a great motor and I think Darren's going to be very happy with where he's at," Williams said.

"He'll decide on what's going to happen when he comes out of quarantine on Saturday but I'm looking forward to hopefully partnering him again."

Williams said the stable had been tinkering with Admire Deus' gear ahead of the Caulfield Cup.

Admire Deus has been working with ear muffs, without ear muffs and a different thickness of ear muff.

"If we use Formula One terminology he's got a great motor and they're just tinkering with a couple of things," Williams said.

"He's lived his whole life with ear muffs on.

"I'm confident they've got the right tools and the right machine and it's just tinkering with getting what will work on race day right."

– 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 »