WANGARATTA-based horse trainer Andrew Dale may have unearthed his next stable star at Friday’s Wodonga Gold Cup meeting.
Four-year-old mare Brenlyn’s Daisy continues to go from strength to strength and won the highest quality race of her career, saluting in race eight’s benchmark 64 (1100m) by nearly two lengths.
The win takes the daughter of Boulder City to four wins from 11 starts, along with three placings as she continues to go from strength to strength.
Dale was stoked with the win but said there’s still plenty to improve.
“She’s a progressive young horse and everything she’s done so far would suggest there’s more in store,” he said.
“She’s still getting her pre-race behaviours in order and if she can do that it’ll allow her to not expend as much energy.
“She was pretty good pre-race on Friday and I think we saw that on course with her turn of foot late.
“It’s something we’re working on though because she’s quite an anxious horse.”
The rising star got the perfect ride from Cory Parish, settling just off the pace before putting her rivals to the sword down the short Wodonga straight and was eased down on the line.
“Cory (Parish) got in the box seat early and only had one back to come off on the turn so it was a nice professional ride,” Dale said.
“We’ve got a good relationship with Cory and he has a great relationship with Brenlyn’s Daisy which she needs because of her little quirks.
“If a new jockey that didn’t know her rode her things could potentially go pear shaped pretty quickly.”
Brenlyn’s Daisy is the half sister to stable mate Brenlyn’s Trooper, while Dale also has Brenlyn’s Trooper’s full two-year-old brother in his stable as well.
“She comes from the same family as Brenlyn’s Trooper who we’ve had some success with and we’ve also got the full brother to (Brenlyn’s) Trooper who hasn’t raced yet,” he said.
“It’s a family that seems to be very competitive which is great because their breeder is a great supporter of our stable.”\
With Brenlyn’s Daisy’s rating climbing to 72, one more country win could force Dale to find a race in Melbourne for his rising star.
“She pulled up well but we’ll give her a couple of easy weeks and try and find a race for her before Christmas,” he said.
“If she continues to improve though we may look at a Friday night race at Moonee Valley if we can get those pre-race behaviours in check.”
PHOTO: Brenlyn’s Daisy puts her rivals away at Wodonga.
