By Ray Hickson
Her half-sister has already been to the Big Dance but three-year-old filly Two Aye will be out to do something her elder sibling One Aye couldn’t do and that’s win on debut at Wagga on Sunday.
The daughter of Deep Field lacks a little experience given she has only trialled once, but co-trainer Matt Jones said it was important that she kicked off with the Wagga Cup carnival two weeks away. Jones, who revealed the Joseph Jones team will be sending horses to this year’s Coffs Harbour Cup carnival, said Two Aye was raw but was showing some talent.
Racing returns to Wagga today with an eight-race card.Credit: Jenny Evans
“She’s a lovely animal but you never know what you’re going to get,” he said. “Her jump-out was disgraceful; her trial was fantastic. ’That’s just her, she’s a bit of an enigma. Even her sister was like that early on. She looks a lot better type than her sister.
“We’d like to have another trial but we wanted to give her race experience and it’s a small field.”
Two Aye was runner-up to multiple city winner Distillate in her Canberra trial on April 14 and, while beaten five lengths, she did more than enough.
There are two races for Two Aye on Wagga Cup Day depending on how she performs in the John Clark Handicap (1000m) today – a 1200m maiden and a 1200m class 1.
“We opted for the 1000m race over the 1200m because her main goal is over the Wagga carnival,” he said. “We’re giving her the experience on Sunday and it wouldn’t surprise me if she won it.“
As for One Aye, Jones said the mare was being aimed at the Coffs Harbour Cup (1600m) in August to qualify for a second shot at the $2million Big Dance having run a respectable seventh in the inaugural running of the race.
“She’s going really well and she’s not far off at all,” Jones said.
“We wanted to take a team up there this year. Try somewhere else. We go to Mudgee, Wagga obviously, Albury, Gundagai, and we thought we’d give Coffs Harbour a try.”
