Heavenly Hand Could Scale The Heights
- Sunday, 14 December 2014 07:06
There is a sense of deja vu and an element of hope following Heavenly Hand's debut win at Kembla Grange.
A year ago, Believe Yourself won the same provincial maiden as Heavenly Hand did on Saturday for trainer Gerald Ryan and owner Tommy Sekiguchi, a Japanese Singapore-based businessman.
After a spell, Believe Yourself came back in the autumn to win the Sweet Embrace Stakes and earn a start in the Golden Slipper in which she ran a gallant fourth.
Heavenly Hand will follow a similar path.
"She will go out for a couple of weeks now," Ryan said.
"We chose to run her at Kembla rather than the Inglis Nursery at Randwick because she had only had one trial and I thought it might be too much for her.
"She is an good, honest filly. I'm not sure how far she can go but we will do the same with her as we did with Believe Yourself."
Ryan enjoyed a stellar season in 2013/14 with two-year-olds and is hoping to snare some big prizes again.
Triple Charged and Perignon are his likely runners in Thursday's Wyong Magic Millions Classic, a forerunner to the $2 million sales-related race at the Gold Coast next month.
"They can both earn their way to the Gold Coast if they go well on Thursday," Ryan said.
The two fillies will be making their debuts in the Wyong race.
The Magic Millions meeting is also a possibility for Dothraki who once again found himself second in a Listed race to Our Boy Malachi on Saturday.
Our Boy Malachi beat Dothraki in the Starlight Stakes and again in the Razor Sharp.
With Our Boy Malachi now likely to be rested, Dothraki will get his chance in the Listed Canterbury Classic (1200m) on December 27.
"He'll run in the Canterbury Classic and then we will make the decision whether to go to the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions Cup or the Sprint," Ryan said.
"The other option is to give him a short break with the autumn in mind."
