Rekindling

Reports are his return to Ireland is deferred and he’ll be running here in Aust over the autumn.

Either Aust Cup or Tancred Stks, followed by the Sydney Cup. Great news !!

Read somewhere the other day , will try find it.

Rekindling and Johannes Vermeer will probably have a one run prep most likely the Blamey

LLOYD Williams will target Saturday’s Group 1 Australian Cup with a band of high-class stayers but the Melbourne Cup-winning owner is mulling a more distant and less prestigious objective for his stable stars.

While the Macedon Lodge supremo covets his first Australian Cup victory since Zipping (2010) with Almandin, Taj Mahal and Homesman, Saturday’s week’s Group 2 Blamey Stakes (1600m) is a possible target for Rekindling and Johannes Vermeer.

The Melbourne Cup quinella last spring, Rekindling and Johannes Vermeer have steadily built fitness under trainer Liam Howley.

Chasing a record seventh Cup, Williams said he had yet to decide when to resume with the pair.

“Rekindling, I can’t make my mind,” he said. “Also with Johannes Vermeer.

“Last year and previous years I have given my best prospects a very light autumn or no runs, for example Almandin.

“This year I will nominate them maybe for a race or two, for example the Blamey.”

Williams won the Blamey Stakes in 2012 with Green Moon, the same year the import advanced to Melbourne Cup success.

Depending how 2016 Cup winner Almandin, Zipping Stakes victor Taj Mahal and last start Caulfield winner Homesman fare in the $1.5 million Australian Cup, Williams could send all three north for next month’s Sydney Cup.

Herald SUN 6/3

I can't see the point of giving stayers one-run campaigns at 1600m. What is the point? They can prepare horses to win first up at 2500m so could easily get Rekindling fit without running him at all. Is the Blamey something Williams particularly wants to win?

Metrop

I really like Rekindling to go back to back wins in the Melbourne Cup.

I thought its win was under-rated, if thats even possible.

Spanked a good field in my opinion, and might get better.

Could be a genuine star this one.

And you know Lloyd is obsessed with the Melbourne Cup, so long range forecast.

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Seems the whole of the autumn has been ruled out for Rekindling.

What an absolute f**king waste.

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I was hoping the BMW than back to Ireland.

That was the original plan.

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What is the BMW worth ?

Just seems a complete and utter waste and would not add a Kilo to the weight he would get next Spring.

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Why run his MC bound stayers at all in the autumn, if the plan is not to win?

Tlazolteotl wrote:

If Williams owned Makybe Diva what races would she have not won that she did win?

Not racing her in the autumn might well have switched off her competitive spirit, we will never ever know.

It seems to me that Williams is failing in his duty in not trying to develop a National Hunt stallion by not running in the BMW and Sydney Cup.

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All 3 are worth winning ever for a multi millionaire.

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Wasting time in a paddock.

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Not sure where you would have got that from ?

I wish he'd gone back to Joseph.

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