Trainer Liam Birchley’s superb season with two-year-olds continued when Blueberry Hill burst into contention for the Brisbane juvenile double with her win at Doomben on Saturday.
Blueberry Hill ($16) finished too well to beat Wicked Intent ($6.50) by a long neck with a length to another Birchley runner in Pepperano ($15) in the Group Two Champagne Classic.
Birchley has had nine individual two-year-old winners this season of 15 races including the New Zealand’s Karaka Million with Hardline.
However, he feels he has a real chance to win more stakes races during the winter carnival with his young horses.
Birchley said he didn’t know where to exactly place Blueberry Hill with his other juveniles.
“Blueberry Hill has been an emerging horse for us,” Birchley said.
“She has kept improving all the time. There isn’t much of her but she deserves a crack at the big races.”
Blueberry Hill will now contest the Group Two BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes on May 30 and the Group One JJ Atkins Stakes on June 6.
Pepperano will also press on the Sires-Atkins double after her brave run.
“She got kicked in the enclosure before the race and got stirred up. It was a good run under the circumstances,” Birchley said.
