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Territory won for the first time in three years last month but there is even more incentive for the sprinter to do it again at Randwick on Saturday.

That’s because for trainers like Jarrod Austin who operate small stables, there is added significance to a metropolitan win at this time of the racing season.

Australia’s annual round of thoroughbred yearling sales start next month and winning races is a young trainer’s best advertisement in attracting new owners.

As such, the timing of Territory’s return to winning form hasn’t been lost on Austin.

And if the six-year-old’s first-up success was a triumph for planning, another win in the International Animal Health Handicap (1150m) could do wonders for Austin’s wish to add to his Warwick Farm string.

“If we could get another win out of Territory on Saturday it would really be good for the upcoming sales,” Austin said.

“It would be nice to have a couple of big owners behind us to back us with a few more yearlings but we haven’t had that luxury so far.”

Territory resumed with a fast-finishing Kensington track win on November 23, his first since he claimed a Listed race during the 2010 Melbourne spring carnival when trained by Lee Freedman.

It confirmed Austin as a trainer to be reckoned with when it comes to placing his horses in the right races.

“We decided to put him away and bring him back at the end of the carnival so the races would be a little bit easier and so far it’s so good,” Austin said.

In an open betting race, Territory is a $7 chance with the Chris Waller-trained Field Marshall holding favouritism at $3.60.

Unusually, there hasn’t been a Waller-trained winner in Sydney for the past two meetings but he has a tremendous amount of firepower at his disposal for Saturday.

Waller has accepted with 21 horses which account for more than 25 per cent of total entries for the meeting.

Early betting has Waller-trained horses at the top of betting in five races.

 
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