When it comes to The Kosciuszko, winning is the best advertisement for a low-profile horse, and Bathurst trainer Dean Mirfin is looking to put I Am Capitan and Worldly Pleasure in the shop window at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Unfortunately for Mirfin, the stablemates are rivals in the TAB Handicap (1200m).
At this stage, the trainer rates I Am Capitan as the stables main hope of having a Kosciuszko runner, but he has a few in the wings waiting to step up.
All Heart: Wordly Pleasure wins at Canterbury last start, giving Eleanor Webster-Hawes her first city success. Credit:AAP
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“Either of those horses, I Am Capitan or Worldly Pleasure, if they were to win would put themselves in the picture, Mirfin said.
“I Am Capitan is probably the stables main prospect. I Am Magnificent ran really well first-up at Hawkesbury and is up there amongst them as well.
“Press Box will be back and ready to go soon. Theres a couple around the mark, they probably just need to take that next step.
I Am Capitan will be sporting concussion plates in front as he suffered a foot abscess after his first-up second to Gumshoe in a Highway at Randwick last month.
The abscess resulted in him being scratched from a Highway on July 6, but Mirfin said the plates were just a precaution and the six-year-old has been working well with them on.
“Hes recovered really well and hes ready to go, he said.
“We took the shoes off for a few days and when we put the plates back on him we made the decision to put concussion plates on to cushion between the shoe and the foot.
I Am Capitans form has some Kosciuszko flavour, including a third to Noble Boy (Kosciuszko second favourite) and a second to I Am A Cool Kid (fourth favourite).
Mirfin has engaged Hugh Bowman to ride the gelding at Warwick Farm Read More – Source
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