Joe Pride predicted Recorrido would measure up to black type company after she resumed with a rousing win at Rosehill on Saturday.
The trainer said Recorrido compared favourably to Sacred Choice, who he was also given as a tried horse before taking her to dual Group One winner.
“She’s in a similar position to Sacred Choice at her first preparation for me,” Pride said.
“They keep improving these mares and I think she can win a stakes race.”
Recorrido came to Pride as a maiden after 15 starts but has now won half of her eight runs for the Warwick Farm horseman.
She is another shining example of Pride’s ability to rejuvenate older horses with his success stories headed by two-time Group One winners Vision And Power and Sacred Choice.
Ridden by Christian Reith, Recorrido ($7) settled in the back half of the field and once she got to the outside in the straight she motored home to overhaul Mighty Obvious ($9) and win the Blackwoods Gearwrench Handicap (1100m) by 1-1/4 lengths.
Madibagold ($7.50) also ran on late to grab third another nose away.
Pride said Recorrido was likely to have another start in similar grade before he stepped her up to stakes company.
“On that win today, if she can’t win a Listed mares’ race I’ll give it away,” Pride said.
Meanwhile, six years to the day after Spirit Of Tara was awarded the Festival Stakes on protest, his trainer Gerald Ryan again found himself on the right side of an appeal in the stewards’ room.
The Ryan-trained Rosie’s Reward was second past the post in the Blackwoods Galmet Handicap (1200m), a short half-head behind Dystopia.
However, Rosie’s Rewards’s rider, apprentice Adam Hyeronimus, fired in a successful protest against fellow junior Chad Schofield on the winner alleging interference over the latter stages.
Ryan said he had to give Hyeronimus a quick word of advice before the hearing.
“He said to me going in, ‘I might have to have some help, I’ve only ever been in one protest before’,” Ryan said.
“I just told him to be definite and he was.”
The upheld result took Rosie’s Reward’s tally to six wins from 14 starts.
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