Classy filly, The Messina Nymph, is headed to the main day of the Scone carnival next month in search of more black type after an impressive, first up win at Wyong last week.
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The Tony McEvoy trained filly finished third in the Listed Chandler Macleod Crockett Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley last October, beaten less than half a length and was having her first start since that run.
McEvoy said The Messina Nymph would be aimed at the Listed $140,000 Denise’s Joy Stakes (1100m) at the stand alone Saturday meeting on May 17.
“She will not have another run before Scone,” McEvoy said.
“She is a tall, leggy filly and we will just poke along with her over the next month.”
McEvoy paid just $30,000 for The Messina Nymph as a yearling.
“It’s called stealing,” he said jokingly.
“I think this filly has a big future and will be even better as a four-year-old.
“I like her a lot.”
The Messina Nymph, ridden by McEvoy’s nephew Kerrin McEvoy, raced in second place early before clearing out in the straight to win by two and a quarter lengths from Glenbawn Dame (Hugh Bowman).
“That’s the first winner Kerrin has ridden for me for a long time,” McEvoy said.
“It was well overdue and he might have the ride at Scone as well.”
Trainer John Thompson is undecided whether to start Honourable Aussie in the Listed $200,000 Emirates Park Scone Cup (1600m) on May 16 or aim for the easier Wagga Cup next Friday.
Honourable Aussie ran second in the Canberra Cup on March 9 and fourth in the Albury Cup 19 days later.
“I would love to go to Scone because the big track and the 1600 metres will really suit him,” Thompson said.
“The trouble is the cup always attracts a really strong field.
“I have a few horses that have come back into work and are trialling shortly and there might be something amongst them that I can take up for some of the other races.”
This may be a little belated but Scone Race Club would like to congratulate the Hunter Valley studs whose stallions sired every runner in the Golden Slipper.
And it would especially like to congratulate its major sponsor, Emirates Park, which races the Gold Slipper winner Mossfun.
“The fact that every runner in the slipper was bred in the Hunter Valley highlights the importance of this area to the racing industry Australia wide,” the club’s CEO, Sarah Wills, said.
“It especially gratifying that Emirates Park, for so long the sponsor of our cup, has enjoyed such an important win.”
