This Saturday (February 6) Wentworth Park will host the heats for their next feature race, the Group 2 Hesa Felon @ Stud Gold Cup (720m).
In heat one three last start winners will face off – Miss Content, Fancy Mandy and Blue Lorian.
Miss Content, coming off two successive wins at Wentworth, has fared the best in the draw and will jump from box two while the Tracey Hurst-trained black and white bitch Fancy Mandy has drawn box four.
Peter Whye’s Blue Lorian is sure to start as the favourite in the final despite drawing wide with box six. The son of Surf Lorian has won his past five races in succession and eight from his last nine, also boasting the fastest time at this distance, a blistering 42.34s.
Only seven dogs are set to contest the second heat following the scratching of Premier Class. Already the warm pre-race favourite has emerged, the John Heard-trained Forty Twenty.
A dual Group 2 winner coming from a last start victory in The Maidment Memorial Final at Sandown, Forty Twenty has drawn awkwardly with box six (moves up to box five with the scratching), but if the speedy dog manages to get away well from the boxes then he will be hard to catch.
If one rival can outrace him it will be the speedy bitch Lochinvar Vogue. Trained by Robert Smith, Lochinvar Vogue has drawn ideally with box two and has the second fastest time over this distance (42.35) behind Forty Twenty (42.32).
Coming off two second placings at Wentworth including runner-up in the Group 1 Association Cup, the daughter of Bombastic Shiraz is looking to move up to winning form at Group level.
Another dog racing in the second heat with a lot to offer is Dashing Corsair. The Dwyer Lennon-trained National Sprint Champion has drawn wide with the far outside box.
The two Gold Cup heats are scheduled as races five and six on Saturday night’s great 10-race card and are due to jump at 8:57pm and 9:16pm (NSW time).
Hesa Felon @ Stud Gold Cup Heat 1 Final Field & Box Draw:
Box |
Form |
Dog |
Trainer |
Best Time (This Distance) |
| 1 | 4273 | ROYAL MIX | Robert Littlefield | 43.41 |
| 2 | 3411 | MISS CONTENT | Michael Jenner | 42.71 |
| 3 | 6812 | FREE YOUR MIND | Jeff Crawford | 43.35 |
| 4 | 6611 | FANCY MANDY | Tracey Hurst | - |
| 5 | 3122 | SO SEDUCTIVE | John Free | - |
| 6 | 1111 | BLUE LORIAN | Peter Whye | 42.34 |
| 7 | 1117 | LITTLE MISS PINK | Mark Arncliffe | 43.83 |
| 8 | 4326 | CHILLI JAM | Kenneth Burnett | 42.81 |
Hesa Felon @ Stud Gold Cup Heat 2 Final Field & Box Draw:
Box |
Form |
Dog |
Trainer |
Best Time (This Distance) |
| 1 | 7334 | CHILLI PUG | Kenneth Burnett | 42.80 |
| 2 | 5122 | LOCHINVAR VOGUE | Robert Smith | 42.35 |
| 3 | 6621 | MISS JERSEY | Glenda Dart | 43.65 |
| 4 | 1466 | ROYAL PINK | Robert Littlefield | - |
| 5 | 1431 | FORTY TWENTY | John Heard | 42.32 |
| 6 | 2346 | SIX ANGELS | Mark Arncliffe | 43.24 |
| 7 | 4615 | DASHING CORSAIR | Dwyer Lennon | 42.49 |
