Stay With Me To Press Slipper Claims
- Wednesday, 04 March 2015 07:24
Her dam is a Golden Slipper winner and Stay With Me could be given the chance to emulate that feat pending her performance in a lead-up race at Randwick.
Trainer David Hayes captured the 2006 Golden Slipper with Miss Finland and he is hoping her daughter Stay With Me can win her way into this year's renewal of the $3.5 million feature when she runs in Saturday's Reisling Stakes (1200m).
"If she wins, for sure," Hayes said.
"If she doesn't win, there's lots of lovely races around. There's a $500,000 fillies' race (Percy Sykes Stakes) or a Sires' Produce Stakes or something like that."
Stay With Me will be racing in Sydney for the first time after finishing second in the Talindert Stakes last month.
Hayes was encouraged by the Street Cry filly's debut effort and said she had trained on well.
"If trackwork is any guide, she's made significant improvement," Hayes said.
"And that's what her mother did."
Miss Finland, who won the Talindert Stakes at her second start, was runner-up in the Blue Diamond before finishing fourth in the Reisling Stakes at her first outing in Sydney.
She came out a start later and won the Golden Slipper by 4-1/2 lengths.
Stay With Me is one of nine fillies in the Reisling and is on the fourth line of betting at $7.
The Todman Stakes for colts and geldings has attracted a small but select field of five.
Golden Slipper favourite Headwater is the $1.70 favourite for the Todman ahead of Vancouver ($3.40) and Furnaces ($4.60).
