GROUP one-winning Sydney trainer Joseph Pride has set his sights on a tilt at next month’s $150,000 Wagga Gold Cup (2000m).
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Pride is the first of the metropolitan trainers to publicly declare the Wagga Gold Cup on his radar and will bring lightly-raced mare My Psychiatrist for the listed race.
My Psychiatrist has won three of her nine starts and highlighted her ability with a huge win in a $100,000 Benchmark 77 Handicap over 2000m at Rosehill last December.
Pride has a big opinion of the four-year-old Excellent Art mare and believes Wagga is the perfect place to chase black type.
“I would like to get a few down there (to Wagga) but at this stage she’s probably the only one,” Pride said.
“I’m chasing some black type with her and at that time of year, if you’re not going to Brisbane, then Wagga is the next best option.
“She ran some really strong races when she got up to 2000 metres last time. Her runs over 2000 and 2100 were super...her win at Rosehill was something else.”
Pride won the group one Lightning Stakes in February with Terravista and has been entrenched in the top 10 of the Sydney trainer’s premiership for the past decade.
Pride had his first runner at the Wagga Gold Cup carnival last year when Gamblestown ran 10th in the Town Plate.
Pride has a lot of time for My Psychiatrist.
“I like her. She’s a lightly-raced mare and she’s got that something about her,” he said.
“She’s a dour sort of mare, nothing spectacular but she keeps grinding and I think the big track at Wagga will probably help her.
“The 2000 metres, third up, will be about spot on.”
Corey Brown rode My Psychiatrist in her first-up third placing at Warwick Farm this preparation and is likely to get first crack at the Gold Cup ride.
My Psychiatrist is set to run at Randwick on Saturday week over a mile in her final lead-up run before Wagga.
Nominations for this year’s Cup close on Friday, April 28.