Weight Could Stop Rohatyn: Laing
- Friday, 23 August 2002 00:00
Despite a sparkling gallop between races at Seymour on Tuesday, exciting spring carnival prospect Rohatyn isn't a good thing in the listed Vain Stakes at Caulfield tomorrow.
Robbie Laing said this morning that Rohatyn impressed him by his gallop with stablemate Pantani at Seymour after what he thought was a lacklustre trial at Cranbourne a couple of weeks earlier.
"He wasn't that impressive down at Cranbourne," Laing told Sport 927. "But he did look good the other day at Seymour."
Laing's main query tomorrow will be the fact the son of Carnegie will have to carry topweight under the set weights and penalities scale.
"After he won that Group race in Adelaide
over the carnival it made sure he would have to carry a high weight on Saturday."
"You wouldn't think he would be able to beat a horse like Delago Brom at the weights," Laing predicted.
Rohatyn is being targeted toward the Victoria Derby, but has been nominated for a couple of other Group One events in between including the Cox Plate.
"He's bred to get over some ground," Laing pointed out. "Lets not forget that Carnegie himself did not win under 2000 metres so for this fellow to win at 1000 metres might just make him a bit special."
RACING PIC - Exciting colt Rohatyn beats Blur in the Group
Three Jansz in Adelaide in May (Jenny Barnes).
