Pride Targets Caulfield and Warwick Farm

Saturday 27 September 2014, 12:04pm

The prospect of training a Melbourne stakes winner won't be enough to lure Joe Pride away from a home-track meeting at Warwick Farm on Sunday.

Pride will send Target In Sight around in the Listed Testa Rossa Stakes at Caulfield and he likes the sprinter's chances.

But Target In Sight will have to do it without his trainer because Pride will saddle up four runners in Sydney as he tries to bed down second spot on the metropolitan trainers' premiership behind Chris Waller.

Target In Sight is one of the favourites for the Caulfield sprint after earning Pride's respect in defeat on a rain-affected track in the Concorde Stakes at Randwick.

"He didn't cope with the ground last time but I thought his last 100 metres was terrific," Pride said.

Pride's best chances of collecting a two-state double could rest with Diamond Oasis in the Hyland Race Colours Handicap and Winsomemore in the Declaration Of War @ Coolmore Handicap at Warwick Farm.

Like Target In Sight, they are raced under the Champion Thoroughbreds' banner.

Diamond Oasis ran up to win but couldn't at Doomben last time after winning first-up for Pride at Randwick last month.

"He loomed up at Doomben and he didn't go on," Pride said.

"He didn't finish off and he's done a bit of that in his life so I've put the blinkers on him."

Winsomemore will have his first start for Pride after winning two of his first four runs under John O'Shea's care and was beaten less than two lengths into the minor placing behind stakes sprinter Sessions in an 800-metre barrier trial at Warwick Farm.

"He's a High Chaparral horse who has trialled really well," Pride said.

Another Champion Thoroughbreds' runner, the three-year-old Dos Santos (Mossman @ Vinery Maiden Plate) and last-start Hawkesbury winner Fast Grass (Shop With The TAB App Handicap) complete Pride's Warwick Farm team.

– AAP

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