Sprinting wasn’t two-year-old Undoubted Glory’s caper so trainer Neville Layt is happy to roll the dice and run him over a staying trip at Rosehill on Saturday.
Undoubted Glory will take his place in the ATC Signficant Prelude (1800m) and Layt firmly believes the gelding can fight out the finish.
Layt expected the son of Not A Single Doubt to be a speedster but in three starts over sprint distances the gelding was beaten a cumulative 30 lengths.
“Being by Not A Single Doubt I thought he would be a speed horse,” Layt said.
“But when I was putting him in the 1000-metre races he was just getting out the back and doing nothing.
“So I thought, `Oh well, he’s a half-brother to Fast Clip so let’s try him over a bit of ground’.”
The Gai Waterhouse-trained Fast Clip, a son of Snippetson, won the Tulloch Stakes (2000m) as a three-year-old and claimed the Doncaster Prelude (1600m) earlier this year.
At Undoubted Glory’s fourth start Layt stepped him up to 1600m in a race at Gosford and he produced his best performance so far with a close second.
That run has given Layt confidence heading into the Rosehill meeting.
“He’s thrived since and I honestly believe he’s a live chance on Saturday,” the Queanbeyan-based trainer said.
The Significant Prelude was due to be run last Monday at Randwick but the public holiday meeting was abandoned due to wet weather.
The race was added to the Rosehill program and is a lead-up to the Significant Stakes (1900m) for two and three-year-olds at Rosehill on June 30.
