$1.4m yearling out to maintain unbeaten run with new trainer.
Jack Bruce didn’t expect what he has got from Everybody Rise early in his time with him, but that hasn’t stopped him wanting more with the revitalised gelding.
The brother to Russian Revolution will be out to maintain his perfect record since joining Bruce’s Deagon stable in Thursday’s Barrier Reef Pools Class 4 Handicap at Ipswich.
The Snitzel four-year-old, who cost $1.4 million as a yearling and started life with Peter Snowden before joining Matt Vella after being purchased by Blueblood Thoroughbreds for $75,000, has been with Bruce since early this year.
He logged back-to-back wins on the Sunshine Coast poly track at his first two starts for Bruce before victory at Thursday’s venue last time out.
“Sometimes horses have the talent but just need to win one and they can string a couple together,” he said.
“He won a modest maiden fresh up, but has gained confidence from that and has improved at each subsequent start.
“He is a happy horse in a good headspace at the minute and is really finding the line in his races.”
Everybody Rise broke his maiden over 1000m on May 1, following up with victory in an 1100m 0-62 four weeks later before another 0-62 win over 1100m at Ipswich on June 25.
He tackles Class 4 company in Thursday’s 1100m event, in which he will carry 59kg and has the outside barrier to contend with in the field of 11.
“That is certainly the challenge,” Bruce said of barrier, which Group 1 jockey Taylor Marshall will be in charge of overcoming.
“We got away with it last start, but it gets harder up in grade to burn the candle at both ends. We need to get across comfortably to still be a winning chance.”
Bruce’s other acceptor, Missile One, fared better, drawing barrier seven, but Bruce would like to see her drawn even closer to the inside and is considering scratching and heading to a lesser race at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday.
