RECENT Muswellbrook (NSW) Gold Cup winner Pitt Street will kick start his Tasmanian campaign in the $100,000 Newmarket handicap in Launceston next month.
The gelding was very impressive in winning the Gold Cup over 1500 metres and while the Newmarket is run over 1200 metres, the race is often won by a horse that excels at 1400-1600 metres.
Pitt Street is owned by a Prime Thoroughbreds syndicate managed by Joe O’Neill who confirmed today that the well-travelled seven-year-old gelding has arrived at the Runnymede stables of Charlie Goggin and Luella Meaburn for a campaign that will include a couple of the weight-for-age races during the Betfair Tasmanian Summer Racing Carnival.
Pitt Street was accompanied by Awasita, a four-year-old mare that is being aimed at the Group 3 Bow Mistress and five-year-old mare Princess Royale that connections hope can improve her rating to get into the Group 3 Vamos Stakes (1400m) in Launceston in February.
Pitt Street comes out of the Kris Lees stable while Awasita has been prepared by Mark Kavanagh and Tony McEvoy has been training Princess Royale.
Awasita comes off a very creditable fifth of 11, beaten three lengths, in the Alinghi Stales for fillies and mares over 1100 metres at Caulfield four weeks ago.
Princess Royale has won only once and been placed three times from seven starts but O’Neill has high hopes that she will measure up in fillies and mares races over the Tasmanian carnival.
All three will be prepared in Tasmania by team Goggin-Meaburn.
Photograph courtesy of Prime Thoroughbreds website.