Racing To Win 下季大計
先以首演錦標作復出戰，最終應該落香港
Just a few weeks after claiming his fifth Group One victory on the last day of the autumn carnival Racing To Win is ready to begin his spring preparation.
The All-Aged Stakes winner arrives back at John O'Shea's Randwick stable on Monday after a short break but will only be there for a few days with all horses to move off the course to accommodate work on the World Youth Day infrastructure.
O'Shea's team will be based at Warwick Farm where the horse population will be boosted to about 1,000 for around three months.
Racing To Win's Group One target will be the George Main Stakes (1600m) on September 27 with that meeting currently scheduled for Randwick as long as the track is in good order after the Papal visit.
The starting point for Racing to Win will either be the Premiere Stakes on August 16 or the Warwick Stakes a week later.
"The spring program means the Premiere fits in well and could be an option rather than the Warwick Stakes for his return," O'Shea said.
"He will then go to the Chelmsford Stakes and George Main Stakes before having another break.
"He won't go to Melbourne. When we see how he gets through the Sydney spring then we will think about Hong Kong."
The Hong Kong International meeting is held in mid-December and had been a target for Racing To Win last year before equine influenza stopped Sydney racing in its tracks.
He had five autumn starts for two wins - the Group Two Apollo Stakes in which he beat Tuesday Joy and the All-Aged where he downed Murtajill.
Prior to the All-Aged, Racing To Win started favourite in the George Ryder Stakes but was no match for star three-year-old Weekend Hussler, finishing 1-1/2 lengths second.
Racing To Win has claimed 11 victories and six second placings from 19 starts with the 2006 Cox Plate the worst run of his career.
He started favourite and beat just one runner home. O'Shea managed to get him back to peak fitness but discarded extending him to 2000 metres again
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