After the devastating loss of Dontbreakmyheart last weekend, Peter and Jessica Brosnan are hoping to get another of their talented jumpers back on track for major missions with a flat run today.
The Matamata trainers have four starters at the Tauranga meeting, including That's How It Goes in the Rating65 Boys Get Paid Get Out Stakes 2100 with the mount going to stable apprentice Tui Miles.
That's How It Goes will be using the rating event to fit him for future jumps assignments, possibly culminating in starts in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup (4800m) at Te Rapa on August 25 and the Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) on the same track on September 9.
Raced by the Brosnans, the son of Istidaad has a win apiece on the flat, over hurdles and over steeplechase fences. He recorded his steeplechase win at Hastings in May and was then runner-up at Te Aroha before being pulled up in the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase and tailing the field home at Te Aroha last start.
"He was a bit underdone at Te Aroha last time as we'd freshened him after Hastings," Brosnan said. "This flat run will bring him on for the other chases and I would be disappointed if he didn't weigh in."
The Brosnans are hoping to have a couple of starters in both the Pakuranga Hunt Cup and Great Northern Steeplechase as Old Countess is also being set for the double.
The Brosnans' other three runners today are first-starter Jazdancer, one-race winner Bewitched and the maiden Pavlichenko. "Jazdancer won a trial well at Waipa then the inside track at Te Rapa wasn't her go in her trial there," Brosnan said. "She's green, but she seems to handle the wet and has got ability.
"As for Bewitched, she's got the ability but doesn't always show it and Pavlichenko ran on well at Matamata last week and I give her a chance."
