No rest for Emma

By Adam Hamilton

BREEDERS Crown heroine Emma Stewart doesn’t have time to reflect.

After winning three of the eight Group 1 finals at Melton last Saturday night, Stewart has switched her focus to the first big Group 1 of the new season, the $200,000 Victoria Cup at Melton on October 12.

And she’s not mucking around.

“We’re setting six or seven horses for the race,” she said. “There’s the horses like Born To Rocknroll, Rocknroll Icon, Tam Major and Maraetai, who went through the Breeders Crown and then a few others we’ve got close to racing again.

“Shadow Sax is only a week away from a trial and The Storm Inside is pretty much on the same timeline as him. We’ve got some really good open-class horses to work with.

“Ride High is another, but he won’t be ready for the Victoria Cup. The good races early next year are his go.”

Stewart wasn’t as upbeat about Chariots Of Fire winner Poster Boy, who narrowly cheated death only a few months ago,

‘He got through it and he’s healthy again, but we’ve got him to the fast work stage again and we’re just not as happy as we’d like to be with him. We’ve got a few things to work through there,” she said.

Both of Stewart’s Breeders Crown 2YO final winners – Be Happy Mach and Maajida – have gone for breaks.

“Be Happy Mach is up with the best two-year-old’s we’ve ever had and I’m sure he’ll come back really well,” she said.

“And even though Maajida had some good draws in the big races, I’m sure she’s top shelf as well.”

 

Stewart joined the chorus of trainers, drivers and owners pushing for a review of what time in the season the Breeders Crown is run.

 

“Absolutely we need to move it. It’s one of the biggest meetings in this part of the world and we need in summer when more people will come to the track to watch the great horses,” she said.

 

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