PREMIER Tasmanian trainer Scott Brunton has longed to prepare a winner of the time honoured Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool and he gets his chance today to realise the dream.
Tougher Than Ever will represent the stable in the Wangoom today at what will be his first start for the stable.
Tougher Than Ever was sent to Brunton by his Western Australia-based owner Keith Loxton of Ferrari Racing and Breeding last month.
And from what the five-year-old stallion showed in a trial at Tattersall’s Park in Hobart last week suggests he will be competitive today.
Tougher Than Ever won his trial over 900 metres and ran home his last 600 metres in 34.4 seconds with David Pires aboard and he did it laying out all the way up the home straight and without being fully extended.
The Wangoom Hcp is race seven on today’s card at Warrnambool.