Bathurst will be represented by four trainers at Dubbo’s racing meeting on Saturday at the Dubbo Turf Club.
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Recent jockey turned trainer Roy L McCabe will have jusst one sole horse racing on the weekend, with his five-year-old chestnut mare Fantasy Gaze racing.
Fantasy Gaze won in her last start, winning from barrier six in a maiden race at Wellington on October 8.
McCabe is confident she can get the job down again at Dubbo, in the Aqua West Class 1 Handicap (1,200 metres) race.
“We were very happy with the result [at Wellington] and she’s trained on well as expected,” McCabe said.
“We are confident of a good performance and if she wins at Dubbo, we will put her in the TAB Highway race at Rose Hill.
“If not, we will try and space her runs, as she has a few leg problems and play it by ear when it comes to her next start.”
Being new to the training game, McCabe only has two horses in work – Fantasy Gaze and Dark Diamond – with the latter to race at Towac Park on Melbourne Cup Day.
Dark Diamond will be looking for her first win and place, after two recent disappointing showings in Wellington and Cowra this month.
McCabe has enjoyed his experience in the training world so far and has had ten starts and a “couple” on wins in his three months in the job.
Peter Stanley has three horses racing during the meeting, with John D’Non the inform horse of the three, having finished second and first in his last start and third last start respectively.
The six-year-old bay gelding will start from barrier two in the eight field Western Star Hotel Benchmark 59 Handicap race (1,600 metres).
Stanley’s Destiny Fields will race in the Myer Fashions On The Field Handicap maiden race (1,000 metres), as the four-year-old bay mare will be looking for her first win.
Elsewhere, the Dean Mirfin trained Super Pig in the Western Star Hotel Benchmark 59 Handicap (1,600 metres) will be jockeyed by Jean Van Overmeire and will certainly be the favourite, as Super Pig looks to win his fourth race in six starts.
Don Ryan will have two horses racing – Annecy in the Kings Hall Jewellers Maiden Plate (1,400 metres) and Somebody in the benchmark 60 handicap race (1,000 metres), with Eleanor Webster-Hawes to jockey both.
