By Neil Evans
The prospect of a very heavy track is music to the ears of a metropolitan three-year-old, who is ready to return to winning ways at Sunday’s Goulburn meeting.
Johnny Dash, part of a strong visiting team from the Annabel Neasham stable at Warwick Farm, has had two unflattering and unplaced runs back from a spell.
Ahead of a modest Benchmark 58 Handicap over 1200m, this gelding has tackled consecutive and stronger Class 2 affairs at Muswellbrook and Canberra, both times running home only fairly from midfield.
But on a track that is likely to tumble well into heavy range, with plenty of rain forecast over the next 24 hours, Johnny Dash is primed to claim a third career win at his 10th start, with blinkers back on.
There are few better bred heavy trackers anywhere on the program than the son of prolific wet-track sire I Am Invincible and out of a Dash For Cash mare.
And adding further belief for punters, at his only previous visit to Goulburn last spring Johnny Dash cruised home from the front in a handy Class 1.
He could well be part of a big day for the Neasham yard.
Earlier, the stable is banking on improving filly Tot Of Rum snapping a run of three straight third placings in the opening Maiden Handicap over 1500m.
Trainer Annabel Neasham.Credit: Getty
She then sends out new stable arrival and US-bred filly Amnesty for her first run in nearly five months since being transferred up from Mornington in Victoria.
A daughter of The Brothers War, Amnesty has been given two quiet trials ahead of her NSW debut in a BM 58 Handicapover 1000m.
The stable also looks a major player in a Class 1 Handicap over 1300m with improving three-year-old Flashing Steel third-up before one of the more intriguing runners at the meeting, striking Lonhro colt Jamaican, makes his debut wearing blinkers in a Maiden Plate over 1300m behind two progressive trials.
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