Tommy Berry, who will get his best chance yet at Group One success on Saturday, continued his recent good form with a winning treble at Gosford on Wednesday.
Berry will partner favourite Manawanui in Saturday’s $500,000 Randwick Guineas and is arguably in the best form of his career heading into the feature meeting.
He demonstrated that with his second treble in eight days at the Australian Turf Club’s meeting at Gosford after also bagging three winners at Wyong’s ATC meeting last Wednesday.
The 21-year-old was also successful in the $200,000 Listed Canberra Cup on Sunday.
Berry was quick out of the blocks at Gosford with three-year-old Landing impressive in the opening event, the Australian Turf Club Handicap (1200m), before Urania Crown took out the second race.
The jockey then had to wait until race six to bring up his treble aboard the Kim Waugh-trained Censor in the Tooheys New Handicap (1600m).
Landing looks destined for better races after keeping his unbeaten record intact, powering away in the straight to score by 2-1/4 lengths over Leviosa at his second start.
The More Than Ready gelding jumped a little awkwardly and after sitting wide early in a small field, Berry made the decision to press forward which proved the right move.
“He’s never brilliant out of the gates. He wasn’t when he won on debut and he wasn’t in his trial either,” Berry told TVN.
“So once he jumped out a bit awkwardly I let everyone else find their position first and then decided to press on after that.
“He’s a very nice horse.”
Mark Newnham, stable representative for trainer Gai Waterhouse, said Landing was a horse with plenty of potential.
“He’s a very promising horse and I would have been disappointed if we didn’t see that today,” he said.