Multizone another winner for James Cumings
Having been successful with a quick back-up into a Group One race with Prized Icon, trainer James Cummings has pulled off an even shorter race-to-race gap with Multizone.
Prized Icon won Saturday’s Champagne Stakes a week after he won the Listed Fernhill Handicap.
On Wednesday, Multizone came to Canterbury where he broke his maiden just four days after running third at Kembla Grange.
“He’s fit and had just been to the beach for the last couple of days,” Cummings said.
“He paraded very well before the race.”
Sent out at $6, Multizone had a half neck to spare on Hogmanay ($6.50) with $2.80 favourite Arancini another length third in the tab.com.au Plate (1200m).
The win was the first of a treble for Sam Clipperton who rode his second Group One winner aboard the Gai Waterhouse-trained English in Saturday’s All Aged Stakes.
Clipperton went on to ride the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Maraam to win a 1200m race for three-year-olds and Daisy Doom to win an 1100m race for fillies and mares for his old boss Ron Quinton.
Like many Sydney trainers at this time of year, the Snowden team is looking to the Brisbane winter carnival and Maraam could make her way there.
“Brisbane could be on the cards,” Paul Snowden said.
“We’ll just see how she comes through this first. Until now she has been restricted to just a couple of starts each preparation but she is really starting to blossom.”
Another coming good at the right time ahead of the rich winter racing is the Waterhouse-trained two-year-old Purrari, winner of the All Too Hard Handicap (1100m) at her second start.
After setting the pace, the filly stuck to her task to hold off Legerity by a long neck with the assistance of James Innes jnr’s 3kg claim.
“She was a bit tired towards the end there and looked to be a bit lost late in the piece out in the middle of the track but she stuck on well,” Waterhouse’s racing manager Adrian Bott said.
“Early on we always thought she would be a nice filly to take up to Queensland for the winter carnival up there so I’d say that would be the way we look to go after we see how she comes through this race.”