Trainer confident of another big run from marvelous Milamoo

Trainer Rob Potter describes Milamoo as “an old marvel” and he is quietly confident that the mare can mark her 50th race start with a big performance today in the $36,000 XXXX Gold Gundagai Cup (1800m).

Most eight-year-old mares have had a foal or two by this stage but Potter said owner and former trainer Mick Miladinovic had no immediate plans to retire Milamoo – especially as she is chasing her third win from her past four starts.

Milamoo has had 10 starts for Potter since she resumed in November after being plucked out of her paddock, and the Canberra trainer said she was in career-best touch.

“She’s a wonderful old mare, probably racing the best she ever has and as consistent as she ever has,” he said.

“She was out in the paddock and we brought her in.

“She was in beautiful order when she came out of the paddock and she just blossomed each run.

Mick’s looked after her throughout her career and, for an eight-year-old having 50 starts, it’s not a lot a lot of racing. I’ve had a few by Zariz and the older they get the better they get.”

A feature of Milamoo’s two recent wins, which were split by a third at Hawkesbury, has been her sweeping winning run from the second half of the field. Potter said that style should suit Gundagai.

She has been there before, earlier in her career, for a couple of placings over shorter trips in 2019, and she drops half a kilo on her last start Sapphire Coast win.