Handsome Future For All Concerned
- Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:00
While The Handsome One was winning at Flemington on Saturday his trainer Greg Eurell was about to walk down the aisle with his bride Dannille nee Ellett.
Eurell had nothing to worry about though, the gelding was in the safe hands of his able stable foreman John Baker.
Baker was wearing quite a grin after the race and obviously was satisfied with the performance as it was the horse’s first-up run since February.
The Handsome One has been ridden in each of his five starts by Dale Smith. Smith has quite an opinion of the gelding believing the Group 1 Emirates Stakes (1600m) on the final day of the Flemington Spring Carnival could be an option.
When Eurell returns from his honeymoon he will no doubt outline the future program for The Handsome One who shows a lot of promise.
He is by the high class racehorse Shamardal who’s clearly among the best European horses to come out here in the last decade.
His success at stud is hardly surprising as his dam Helsinki, by Machiavellian, is a full sister to Street Cry whose success as a sire is well documented.
The second dam Helen Street was a classic filly winning the Irish Oaks and she left no less than 10 winners.
Picture: Fiona Tomlin
