Best Bets – Wednesday 11th December

You’ve just gotta like a natural-born front-runner competing in a low-key race at a front-runners course. So, I’m on the very fit MORE MISCHIEF in this. did win this trip at Nowra 3 runs back leading all the way and this field isn’t strong. Perhaps Happy Saturday can plod into 2nd.

I’m going for a bit of a smokey here in the Pete Snowden galloper BROADFIELD. He isn’t much good but this field is pretty weak and he at least is very fit. Is also coming back in class where he was 4th last start. Drawn to sit in the box seat with cover and that might just be enough to get him home.

Now that he has finally found form I think THE NOVELIST can go on with it this campaign. He led all the way to win over this trip in extremely fast time at Kembla last start. He is now 4th up going into this and he should ping from the outside gate and charge across to lead. Queen Of The Mile won well when resuming last start so she can go forward, and chase him home into 2nd.

Tough little field this with a few emerging stars and some unknowns. I think TEMPESTUOUS, however, is a bona fide star juvenile and as such sits off what should be a cracking tempo and finish too hard. He was 2nd on debut in a strong Breeders’ Plate. Saying that it will be interesting to see how fast this unraced bush youngster Swedish Glitter is. She’s only tiny but scorched away with a huge lead in a recent trial. She won it by 4 lengths and her daisy-cutter stride of super fast turnover was impressive. Can she keep it going against top-grade opposition though? Zac Lloyd has been engaged so stable must rate her and she is $61!

There is a bit of a boom about and because of it a lot of overnight money came in for this unraced daughter of young stallion Unite and Conquer called QUEENSTAR. She trialled very well and is expected to go forward from this wide gate. Has firmed from $3.60 into $2.50 so the rumours are rumbling.