Rosehill Review: Don’t Drop Off King’s Gambit

There’s always a lot of hype around two-year-olds and they don’t necessarily deliver as King’s Gambit showed when he went under at Rosehill last Saturday.

His starting price odds of $1.28 were ridiculous in the Canonbury Stakes ut he still ran well when he finished second behind Red Resistance.

The Golden Slipper on March 18 though is still six weeks away and Peter Snowden wouldn’t have lost a lot of sleep over Saturday’s result.

His and his son Paul’s job is to get him to peak in that race and they know precisely what to do having trained the winner twice.

King’s Gambit retained favouritism for the Golden Slipper Stakes with TopSports and is a $6 chance.

Annabel Neasham’s two-year-old filly Learning To Fly ran a faster time than Red Resistance by .3 seconds with her sensational debut win in the Widden Stakes and she is now a $7 second favourite.

Neasham said after the win that she always thought Learning To Fly was ‘special’ and she was relieved she could do it on race day.

While on trainers any Melbourne based owner with a useful sprinter has to consider sending them to Joe Pride as he has a habit of taking them to another level.

Pride has taken Mariamia to a her peak career performance with her win in the Expressway Stakes.

It was simply a case of her being too fit and too fast for Golden Mile in the 1200 metres race where she carved out a time of 1:08.73 seconds.

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