Gosford, Quirindi previews: Tracey Bartley is aiming high with his latest promising filly

If Sniper’s Bullet has taught us anything, it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish that counts.

It has just gone 15 years since the son of Bite The Bullet won on debut – by almost six lengths too, in a maiden at Dubbo.

Not long after, the Tracey Bartley-trained gelding was in Group 1’s, retiring with three in the bag.

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Tracey Bartley’s former stable star Sniper’s Bullet.Source:News Corp Australia

No one is saying Gosford-bound filly Sebrenco is going to win $2.5 million, least of all Bartley himself, but that’s not to say the former jockey isn’t drawing up some ambitious plans for the soon to be three-year-old in 2021/22 season.

Sebrenco, like Sniper’s Bullet before her, burst onto the scene with a memorable bush win.

In her case, it was at Quirindi on February 19 where she charged past her rivals to win her 1000m two-year-old handicap in a time that an open class galloper would have been proud of – 56.81 seconds, home in a tick above 32.

“Sebrenco is a very impressive filly,” Bartley said. “She’s a half-sister to Miss Redouble and has got a better attitude than her.”

Miss Redoble was a beaten $2.70 favourite at her first start in a maiden at Coffs Harbour, not so Sebrenco who managed to topple an odds-on favourite when she got her own career to a booming, or more correctly, barnstorming beginning.

“She trialled well before she went to the races but we rode her cautionary there at Quirindi,” Bartley explained. “We let the speed go and she got into a beautiful spot and peeled off their backs and she let rip good.”

Bartley’s reasons for not pushing on with Sebrenco were essentially two-fold; physical and timing.

“She is only a light filly and she’d had enough; it was job done so we gave her the break,” he said.

Sebrenco is a half-sister to handy mare Miss Redoble (Purple and Yellow). Photo: AAP ImageSource:AAP

“She is coming back at a nice time to start stepping her up and see where her class level gets too. We have got a pretty good opinion of her.”

Bartley concedes that the configuration of the Gosford track is a ‘disadvantage’ but provided Sebrenco gets a suitable tempo and an uninterrupted passage in the straight, she could return home to nearby Wyong with her unbeaten record intact.

“She has drawn a little bit sticky but she is a bit of a backmarker so she will be midfield and we’ve just got to come with one run with her,” he said.

Another hugely exciting young horse and potential spring feature aspirant on show at Gosford on Tuesday is Tocomah who sports the famous Geoff and Beryl White colours worn by the likes of Marscay, Triscay, Filante and Eremein among others.

Those ‘others’ include Tocomah’s dam, the stakes-placed Mine Two and her half-sister Spright, both of whom, like Tocomah, were trained by Garry Frazer.

Tocomah is guaranteed admirers off his incredibly impressive trial win at home at Hawkesbury on June 15 where he blazed his way across the 800m in 46.16 seconds with a widening four-length margin between himself and the runner-up.

SNITZEL DESCENDANTS TO SERVE UP A DOUBLE FOR OSLAND

Stirling Osland, Ashley Morgan and Hollymount Stud’s Matthew Sandblom – the man who bred reigning Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside – are in line for a double at Tuesday’s west of the divide meeting.

The trio can strike early at Quirindi with the chestnut three-year-old Desmos lining up in the TAB Class 1 & Maiden Plate (2000m).

Desmos is a daughter of Sandblom’s own Snitzel son Salade who won the 2011 ATC Pago Pago Stakes on debut.

Salade boasts a phenomenally high winners-to-runners of more than 72 per cent.

As for Desmos, her strike-rate is much less impressive with just one win from 16 starts so far.

That said, she has placed six times, four of them are seconds, including a brave effort behind the winner Paste Tense in a Coffs Harbour 2000m Class 1 on June 18.

“She probably a little bit keen there at Coffs the other day but she was tough, that’s for sure,” Osland said.

Stirling Osland (left) has a couple of good chances at Quirindi in Desmos and Lovely Spirit. Photo: AAP ImageSource:AAP

“She is a mare that wants to over-race in stages but if you can get her out nice and quiet and can get a bit of cover, that would be ideal. But she is obviously tough enough to do it the other way (lead) if we have to.

“I think she looks pretty well placed there and her record at 2000m is not too shabby,” said Osland.

Osland, meanwhile, has found the perfect race at the perfect time for Sandblom’s home-bred filly Lovely Spirit to bag her first win.

Like her stablemate Desmos, Lovely Spirit is also a granddaughter of Snitzel, in her case as a product of Australian Guineas winner, Wandjina.

Lovely Spirit goes into Tuesday’s TAB Maiden (1450m) ready and able to peak at what will be only her third run for Osland having raced five times previously under the John Sargent banner.

“I think stepping up in trip is going to help her considerably too,” Osland commented.

“Her first-up run at Armidale was a very good run and she was maybe a touch flat second-up.

“She definitely looks like a filly who could pick up a race or two for sure.”

Lovely Spirit is a well related horse, her dam Lovely Lonny is a daughter of Lonhro and a half-sister to stakes-winners Liesele and Loved Up.

Originally published asGosford, Quirindi previews: Classy filly to keep unbeaten tag

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