By Neil Evans
A promising four-year-old staying type from the Gold Coast is out to steal some of the limelight from the leading home track stable at Tuesday’s feature Murwillumbah meeting.
Tough-as-teak Star Witness four-year-old Bay Street has been banging on the door since a tidy first-up maiden win at Ipswich back in late October. Three consecutive seconds either side of the border has left trainer and part-owner Marcus Wilson full of frustration as he heads towards the New Year.
But Bay Street looms as one of the best bets on a card stepping up sharply in trip to a class 1 and maiden over 2020m that will shape many summer campaigns for bigger races ahead.
The Matthew Dunn stable has a strong hand at Murwillumbah today.Credit:Getty
In what looks a race of few chances, Hypertension is gunning to win only his second race at the 37th attempt. Hypertension has been placed 14 times for two stables in a career that promised so much more when it began in 2020.
The Matthew Dunn runner is not expected to do much, but the trainer has a very strong hand that could result in him carrying off half the card. Tough seven-year-old Dorset Coast is the one to beat coming back significantly in grade in a benchmark 58 over 1550m to open the program.
The Dunn camp then unleashes progressive Foxwedge five-year-old Sagacious in a weakened Ballina Cup Prelude (1550m).
The stable then saddles up one of the more promising three-year-olds in the region in Desert Mist, which reloads in a maiden over 1550m after flashing home to miss by a whisker when resuming at Ballina.
Improving fillies Lady Falvelon and Playgirl are both strong each-way hopes in a good benchmark 58 over 1200m, before talented filly Street Smart attempts to make it two from two this campaign in a class 1 over the same journey.
