Adebisi won’t be given the chance to attempt a clean sweep of the Doomben summer series if successful in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes.
Trainer Desleigh Forster conferred with the gelding’s owners before deciding not to step him up in distance to 1615 metres in the Listed Bernborough Handicap, just a week after Saturday’s 1350-metre feature.
“We’ve decided he’s not going to the Bernborough next week. We don’t want to extend him to 1615 metres just yet,” Forster said.
“More than likely he’ll have his next run in the Goldmarket Handicap and there’s a chance he could even go to Melbourne.
“We haven’t looked at anything down there but the way he jumps out of the barriers you could imagine how he’d go around Moonee Valley.”
The Listed Goldmarket Handicap (1300m) will be run at the Gold Coast on January 2.
The Gordon Yorke-trained Natural Destiny is the only sprinter to win all three legs of the Doomben summer series when he was successful in 2006-07.
Forster was on a high after Adebisi gave her a career-best win in the Group Three George Moore Stakes (1200m), the first leg of the Doomben summer series, on December 10.
However, her excitement was shortlived when Easy Running lost the Listed Gold Edition Plate on protest to Biggles at Eagle Farm last week.
“As far as I’m concerned I won that race but the protest went the way it should have,” Forster said.
Forster is confident Adebisi can repeat his George Moore Stakes victory and has warned the four-year-old doesn’t have to lead as he did in that race.
“If they go stupid up front I’ll be happy to see him take a sit,” Forster said.
“He’s normally very fast out of the barriers but I won’t be tying down Paul Hammersley to any set instructions and I’ll leave it to him to decide.”
Forster can’t fault Adebisi’s work following his George Moore Stakes triumph and rates Sydney visitor My Destiny as the main danger.
“Adebisi’s work has been very good and I can’t find any negatives with him,” she said.
“The Sydney horse (My Destiny) has big wraps on him and has a very high rating but he’s still got to travel here.”
My Destiny was an emergency but didn’t secure a start and was scratched from last week’s Group Two Villiers Stakes (1600m) at Warwick Farm.
The son of Stratum has been one of Sydney’s in-form sprinters since stepping out for the first time as a four-year-old in October.
A stakes placegetter when third in the Darby Munro Quality during this year’s autumn carnival, My Destiny started his winning run at Randwick on Melbourne Cup day.
He has since added successive Rosehill wins to his record.
Jay Ford has ridden My Destiny in his recent wins and will make the trip north to continue his association with the gelding.
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