The Robert and Luke Price-trained Our Bellagio Miss is looking to go back-to-back at Royal Randwick this Saturday.
She was backed in from $101 to $61 when saluting at Randwick a fortnight ago and the Robert and Luke Price -prepared Our Bellagio Miss will be looking to repeat the dose when she lines up in the TAB Handicap over 1100m back there this weekend.
The victory brought up the first metropolitan win in quite some time for comeback jockey Jenny Duggan and she will reunite with the Casino Prince mare on Saturday.
Co-trainer Luke Price was ecstatic with the last-start effort, and believes there is even more improvement to come third-up from the spell.
“I was very happy with the horse, I think she’s going even better going into this run on Saturday,” Price told Sky Sports Radio on Thursday morning.
“Her work on the course proper on Tuesday was super. She’s really going good the old mare.
“She obviously likes a little bit of sting out of the track as well, so it would be nice to get a storm over the next 48 hours at Randwick. But if not, she just proved the other day that she can beat those horses without the cut in the ground.
“I was going to save her another week for another race, but then I worked her on Tuesday and just told me that she’s in the zone and ready to go.”
Earlier in the program Price lines up his All Too Hard gelding Mr Rock It, who is aiming to bounce back from a somewhat last lustre effort in a Midway contest two weeks ago. Price has made a few adjustments to try and switch his three-year-old on, and may have even bigger fish to fry if things go his way.
“He was probably a touch disappointing the other day, but he was 1400m back to 1200m five weeks in between runs. We had freshened him up,” Price said.
“We’ve just had a bit of a gear change taken the blinkers off, put a nose roll on and we’re just going to try something a little bit different with him.
“He has that tendency to get the head up and do things wrong still, but the horse is loaded with ability and if he puts it all together I’m sure he’ll be thereabouts.
“He’s in the three-year-old Magic Millions, probably looking unlikely but he’d have to win on Saturday.”
“(He was) really good here on Gong day and then we just had a little hiccup so we’ve had to back off him,” Price said.
“He had a private jump out here last Wednesday and it just showed that the horse is going well.
“It’s one of those races that I think you could run ten times and get ten different winners. But they’ll know he’s there when it’s time to rock and roll, because he’s certainly going good the old boy.”