Grayson Square on target for four on trot

Friday 14 November 2014, 11:55am

The vastly improved Grayson Square can tick another box if he races well in his open-company debut at the Gold Coast.

Grayson Square will be looking for four wins on end when he takes on a top-quality field in Saturday's Super Starfish Handicap (1400m).

Trainer Brian Wakefield mapped out a plan when Grayson Square resumed two months ago and has been able to tick off each point as being successful so far.

"Firstly I wanted him to get back to winning form. Then I wanted him to be able to win a couple of races in a row," Wakefield said.

"The next step was to get him out to 1600 metres and see if he could handle it. He didn't just handle it but overcame a lot of bad luck to win.

"So now it is to the next step which is to win a race in open company with him."

Wakefield admits Grayson Square faces a stiff task against some classy opponents.

"It is a better than average field but at least we will know where we are at," he said.

"Travis Wolfgram rode him well at his past two starts but I have gone with Luke Tarrant this week to use a 1-1/2 kilogram claim."

"A few of the higher-weighted horses aren't claiming so we meet them well at the weights as we get in under the limit."

Grayson Square has been kept ticking over in the three weeks since his most recent start.

"He was out in the paddock and also spent a few days just on the dry walker. He couldn't be fitter," Wakefield.

If he races well Grayson Square will be set for the Listed Recognition Stakes (1600m) at Doomben on November 29.

Grayson Square, who is by 2004 Cox Plate winner Savabeel, cost $105,000 at the New Zealand Premier Sale and has already doubled that in prize money.

Among his opponents at the Gold Coast will be Group Two winner Sir Moments from the Steve O'Dea stable.

Sir Moments will carry 59kg equal topweight with Brave Ali.

All going well, Sir Moments will head to Sydney for the Villiers Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on December 13.

– 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 »