There is a single telling statistic in Invinciano’s seven career wins – all of them have been scored on firm tracks.
“She is very one-dimensional in that way. Anything worse than a (soft) five and she just doesn’t go on it,” her trainer Joe Pride said.
“She has had to have starts on the wet tracks and that has diminished her record from what it should be.
“But if you look at her record without those wet track runs in there, she’s not unbeatable on dry tracks, but she is very, very good.”
After two unplaced runs on rain-affected ground, Invinciano bounced back into the winner’s stall on a good surface last start, showing her customary pace to dictate throughout and score comfortably.
She will chase successive wins in Saturday’s Billy Camer Handicap (1500m) at Randwick on Saturday and with the mare now race fit, Pride again expects Invinciano to give her rivals something to chase.
“She does it at both ends. She’s eye-balling from the front and those horses need to be fitter than those horses that sit out the back and have a bludge,” Pride said.
“She is very consistent. You take any of those wet track runs out of there and she never runs a bad race.”
Invinciano is a $3.80 second favourite behind the Chris Waller-trained Loveplanet, who makes his Sydney debut after winning three of his four starts in Melbourne.
Pride confirmed Invinciano would head towards the Listed Rowley Mile (1600m) at Hawkesbury on August 19 provided she came through Saturday’s race well.
