Trainer Gary Colvin hopes Saturday's $35,000 Corowa Cup (1600m) proves a step towards a potential Wagga Gold Cup start for his galloper Noble Descent.
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The six-year-old gelding has won five of 22 starts, three times as a three-year-old (over 1200m, 1600m and 1800m) and twice late last year (over 1300m and 1600m).
Noble Descent was then third in the Ted Ryder Cup (1600m) just before Christmas, behind Spunlago and fellow Corowa Cup runner Class Clown, before a fourth at Wagga in February in the Rodney Parsons Handicap (1400m) after a seven-week break between races.
"He's on his way up. It's a nice race for him and I expect him to run well," Colvin said.
"This is probably his first serious hit out over a mile. He probably wasn't wound-up ready to go last start.
"(In the Ted Ryder Cup) he just got back a little bit. It was a pretty good run but he'd been up for a while.
"We'll just see how we go and take it one step at a time but we might have a crack at the Murrumbidgee Cup and maybe even the Wagga Cup.
"We'll see if he's up to it. The Murrumbidgee Cup is 1800m. If he can win that then we'll give him a crack."
The winner of the Murrumbidgee Cup in mid-April gets a start in the Wagga Gold Cup (2000m) on the first Friday in May.
Apprentice Blaike MacDougall has the ride on Noble Descent who will carry 57.5kg.
Fellow Wagga galloper, Chris Heywood's Class Clown, which beat Noble Descent home in the Ted Ryder Cup and was also second in the Carrathool Cup last week will carry the same weight after apprentice Josh Richards' claim.
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