Been following this horse from his first start.
He’s certainly going places, looking forward to watching him progress.

Edited by Gay3 - 08 Sep 2022 at 10:00am

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Begood's ballot torment

Begood Toya Mother’s chances of making Saturday’s field for the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes have been improved sharply by Caulfield’s moveable rail.

Last year, the Melbourne Racing Club’s moved the rail out to the nine-metre mark for the pivotal meeting thereby forcing the field limit for the 1400-metre starts to be reduced by one to 15.

It was shaping as though that could be the case again this year until mid-Monday morning when the MRC confirmed the rail this Saturday would be out just three metres, which permits officials to run 16 horses from the 1400-metre start.

The rail movement came as some encouraging news for the connections of Begood Toya Mother, but he remains in a perilous position as regards to gaining a start.

As a consequence, Begood Toya Mother might be forced to Sydney to race this Saturday with trainer Daniel Bowman’s setting his sights on the G3 Bill Ritchie Handicap at Randwick as a potential back-up for the emerging galloper, who simply has to run this weekend, according to Bowman.

"The horse is ready to go," Bowman declared on Monday morning. "I’ve prepared him to be peaking third up. He’s ready to go. Where ever he goes, he’s going to run well.

"He had a good strong gallop at Casterton (Monday morning) over 1000 and we’re ready to go now."

If he decides against a hit-and-run trip to Sydney, Bowman has one more option with the horse so as to give him a shot at a Group 1 handicap.

"We either go a couple of more weeks – which will make it five weeks between runs  - into the Weekend Hussler or the Paris Lane and then into the Toorak."

Field sizes for the 1400-metre start at Caulfield were reduced initially from 18 to 16 following an incident in the 2016 Orr Stakes when runner Mourinho was kicked behind the start where horses had limited space to move.

In the 2017 running of the Sir Rupert Clarke, the rail was in the true position as it was the Underwood Stakes card in October. The rail being true allowed a full field of 16, but when the race reverted back to this date last year, the rail was out nine metres last year, forcing the field size to be narrowed to 15.

Bowman said connections face an anxious wait until Wednesday morning’s acceptances for the $500,000 race to see if he sneaks into the line-up at Caulfield.

"It really depends on what they do with Scales Of Justice and with a couple of horses that might back-up," Bowman said. "We might end up being first emergency and that will compact the weights a lot.

"There are a few that could run and that means we’re right on that 15^th, 16^th or 17^th spot."

Bowman purposefully aimed at improving his horse’s rating during his off-season six-start winning streak and he was surprised to find he still might not have enough rating points in the bank to make the Group 1 this Saturday.

"I’ve done all I can to get his rating up," Bowman said. "At the time, after he won the Regal Roller he only got eight (rating points) and I didn’t think much of it, but maybe they were a bit lenient on him there.

"Age Of Chivalry went up 13 (points) off winning an open handicap and we went from a benchmark 84 to a listed race and only went up eight.

"I should have probably argued that at the time."

Bowman and connections will not be the only ones disappointed if their spring end-game is not met as former Irish rider Declan Bates has been working hard to make the 52 kilograms it is estimated Begood Toya Mother will be allocated when weights are released on Tuesday.

"He rode him (at 54kg) in the Regal Roller with a big saddle and good packing and we’ve known this will be about our weight for a good couple of months so he’ll be right to go."

Bloody champ!!!!!

So happy for owners 👏👏
How he got his name goes something like this -
Two brothers and a sister, one brother a trainer, other brother keeps calling him all the time asking for tips. His answer was always “Be good to your mother”
They end up getting a horse and call it.....................

It’s been a couple of days now... How come this thread hasn’t descended into another ‘anyone who has ever breathed the same air as Weiry is a cheat’ thread?

Thankfully he went with a vet and his people around him.  Sad for them all. R I P mate