Inexperienced filly Fabulous Dream is set to emerge from the shadow of her illustrious elder full-sister Amazing Dream and is on the path to make her own headlines.
After 19 wins in New Zealand and five in Australia Amazing Dream was quick to make her mark in the United States where she has won another five times, boosting her earnings to $1,967,140.
“Amazing Dream is the fastest mare in the world,” said Fabulous Dream’s trainer Mike Reed, who is looking forward to the three-year-old winning the $21,000 Skyracing Pace at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
Fabulous Dream, driven by Shannon Suvaljko, notched her fourth win from seven starts when she began from out wide at barrier No. 7 and raced in eighth position before finishing strongly to win by a head from the fast-finishing Delulu, rating 1.57.8 over 2130m on Tuesday evening. The final 400m sections, off the front, were run in 27.9sec. and 28.7sec.
Fabulous Dream is favourably drawn at barrier one in Friday night’s 1730m event, with Reed saying: “She has gate speed, but we have never chased her out (from the start). I’ll leave the tactics up to Shannon, but I’d say we will definitely be trying to lead over the short trip. She is pretty tough and should be able to handle two runs in a week.”
It is unlikely to prove a cake walk for Fabulous Dream, who is expected to receive stiff opposition from the Greg and Sky Bond-trained pair of Delulu and Captainshavtime as well as Coolup trainer Frank Nafranec’s smart filly Reinette.
Deni Roberts has given punters a good lead by choosing to drive Captainshavtime from out wide at barrier seven in preference to Delulu, who will begin from barrier two with Tom Nally in the sulky.
“I’ll drive Captainshavtime because she is a better horse than Delulu, and she has got really good gate speed,” said Roberts.
Captainshavtime has won eight times from 20 starts, and Reinette notched her ninth win from 24 starts with her easy success in the 2100m South-West Derby at Bunbury last Saturday.
Reinette will start from the outside barrier in the field of eight, with her driver Trent Wheeler saying: “She is not impossible, and over the sprint I’ll be looking at going forward.”
