WITH a tricky barrier draw and a field full of quality rivals, driver Emma Turnbull knows her chance Walk On Kimmy is not likely to rank amongst the favourites for Monday’s $30,600 Group 3 Canola Cup.
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However, Turnbull has defied the odds in the Eugowra feature in the past and is hoping to do so again with Walk On Kimmy.
In 2015 Turnbull had the job on Peter Bullock’s Swaggie Shannon and given the final of the annual feature had drawn one of the best fields in its history, he was a rank $112.80 outsider.
While the win belonged to Amanda Turnbull’s Oh I Am The One, Emma Turnbull managed to snare third with her underdog.
Come this Monday afternoon as she drives for her mother, The Lagoon trainer Wendy Turnbull, Emma Turnbull is hoping for something similar from a tough barrier nine draw.
“She just can’t get a draw at the moment the poor little girl,” Turnbull said ahead of the 2,100 metres decider.
“It’s going to be very tough for her with the bad draw, if she drew well I thought, not that she’d win it, but I thought she’d be there in the money. The bad draw makes it pretty hard for her.
“There’s some great horses in it. That Victorian horse [Three Summas], I think he’ll be very hard to beat with the draw. Ominous Warning, he’s beaten her a few times and she’s never beaten it.
“But I ran third in it a few years ago, it was like 100-1, so you never know, Kimmy might do the same.”
An Aces N Sevens mare, Walk On Kimmy was a handy 4.9m winner in her Canola Cup heat on September 23. That came from barrier six.
But past Canola Cup winner Amanda Turnbull won a heat with the handy Now I See, Peter Trevor-Jones’ Ominous Warning was impressive in his qualifier and Russell Jack’s Three Summas booked a spot with an all-the-way win.
All three will be hard to beat and on top of that, Walk On Kimmy will be backing up after running in a Where Horses Fly final at Menangle on Saturday night. She copped a tough draw for that too – barrier 11 – and placed seventh.
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“Backing up won’t trouble her, but she’ll have a couple of easy days after, a couple of days off for sure. It won’t worry her one little bit, but it is one side of the state to the other,” Turnbull said.
“At Eugowra the other day most of the winners were coming from the front of the field, so that makes it very hard from nine. I think I’ve just got to drive her for luck and see how she goes.
“She’s a beautiful pacer, she can handle any track, it doesn’t matter one little bit. She is tough and she does have a bit of speed.”
The Canola Cup Final is set to go at 3.58pm on Monday at Eugowra.
