The first step in trainer Peter Snowden’s Group One plan for Bounding this spring has been executed to perfection at Caulfield.
The New Zealand Group One winner was having her first start for Snowden and his son Paul in Saturday’s Group Three The Heath (1100m) and the mare made it a one-act affair over the final 200m as she sprinted clear of Rich Enuff to win by four lengths.
Bounding
Bounding, previously trained by Ken Kelso, took her record to eight wins and six seconds from 15 starts which includes her Group One Railway Stakes win in New Zealand last year.
Snowden has pinpointed next month’s Group One Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield as a race he believes is tailor-made for the five-year-old.
“I’ve got a long range plan ahead, and I don’t know whether it will come off but the reason for coming here today was for that plan,” Snowden said.
“So hopefully she can keep going on.”
Bounding will run in Sydney at her next start with the Rupert Clarke not for four weeks, and Snowden said weights would also be a factor.
Bounding had support to start the $3 favourite and enjoyed a good run under Kerrin McEvoy before looming strongly three wide.
She powered clear of leader Rich Enuff from the 200m while Rich Enuff battled on in his first start since last spring to hold second, a long neck ahead of Miss Promiscuity.
“That was just what we wanted to see, but in saying that she had a great record before I got her,” Snowden said.
Rich Enuff missed the autumn because of a ligament issue in a back hock and his trainer Ken Keys said he was happy with the four-year-old’s return.
