Eagle out for new heights in Aurie's Star

Wednesday 6 August 2014, 3:16pm

Five-year-old mare Sino Eagle's consistency has forced trainer Peter Moody to start her in the Group Three Aurie's Star Handicap at Flemington.

Sino Eagle scored a dominant first-up win at Caulfield on July 26 with that success, the mare's fifth in town, making Moody's task of placing her even tougher.

Sino Eagle was Group Three-placed last season but Moody will attempt to boost the five-year-old's residual value with her maiden stakes win on Saturday.

"What do you do with a mare like that? You have got to chase black type," Moody said.

"She's come off her first-up run well but she's got a bit of black type so we have got to build on it.

The Aurie's Star Handicap has proven elusive for mares with the males claiming all nine runnings of the event since the race was elevated to stakes status in 2005.

Linda Meech will partner Sino Eagle again after guiding the Casino Prince mare to her first-up victory.

Sino Eagle will clash with the two previous winners of the Aurie's Star Handicap with Shanghai Warrior and Broken both among the 13 acceptors for the $150,000 race.

The Darren Weir-trained Broken has struggled to find his best form this time in and beat only one runner home last Saturday at Moonee Valley while Shanghai Warrior has produced solid placings at each of his three runs back from a lengthy injury break.

Import Crackerjack King will make his Australian debut in the race after trainers David Hayes and Tom Dabernig made a late entry for him on Tuesday.

Dabernig said Crackerjack King was set to resume at Caulfield on Saturday week but the inability to find a suitable track for an exhibition gallop prompted the Lindsay Park team to bring forward the Group One winner's Australian debut.

"He can now have an old-style preparation with a first-up run in the Aurie's Star," Dabernig said.

"Many good horses have started their campaigns in the race in the past."

– 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 »