Trial Review: Horses That Caught The Eye At The Trials This Week 2/9

Tuesday’s Randwick trials saw more potential spring stars roll out. Our analyst has picked out a Slipper place getter that looks to be tracking nicely and a trio of runners that look ready to perform early in their campaigns.

Tempted 

After an unlucky 3rd in this year’s Slipper, Godolphin filly Tempted looks to have furnished nicely as a 3yo after a hard-held 0.07L 2nd in her Randwick trial. She was 3-4L off them on the turn and showed nice acceleration to pick them up quickly without being asked to do much by J Mac. She looks on track to be a major player in the big 3yo races this season.

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Miss Freelove

The Snowden filly looks to have returned in improved order after settling behind a fast leader and closing with some strong sectionals. She put a big gap on the 3rd horse and chewed into the big lead of Champagne Hero to finish 2.5L 2nd. 

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Strait Acer

The Headwater 6yo looks to be going as well as ever for his new O’Shea & Charlton team after an impressive 0.4L trial win. He sat back off the leader and rounded it up under a lot less pressure with big gaps back through a quality field.

Getafix

The O’Shea & Charlton 4yo has always shown above average ability but finally looks to be switching on between the ears after a big 5L win at Kensington back in June before beating Cool Jakey and It’s a Knockout in a strong winter BM88. His return trial was a real eye-catcher settling well back in the field and trucking to the line under a strong hold to finish 0.6L 2nd to G3 Newcastle Stakes winner Sandpaper. He will bring great residual fitness into this spring campaign and looks like being a great lightweight chance in whatever feature races they set him for.