Gavin Bedggood is hopeful Behaviour can give him another metropolitan winner for the 2024-25 season and move him one step closer to a top ten position.
The Cranbourne-based horseman has 45 horses in work and has 19 Victorian city winners for the season, one behind Phillip Stokes and two behind Robbie Griffiths and Patrick and Michelle Payne who are on 21 victories.
Behaviour, a former member of the Chris Waller stable, runs in the Sportsbet Race Previews Handicap (1000m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
“He’s in great order and probably is working as good as anything I’ve got in the stable,” Bedggood told RSN.
“Blinkers have really turned him around, I think.
“He drew low at Mornington last time and got that smother and didn’t get exposed until late and was good through the line.
“I envisage he will get a similar sort of run on Saturday on the back of a decent enough tempo.
“He’s at bolter’s odds, and he shouldn’t be.”
A son of I Am Invincible from Spright, Behaviour was a $1.6 million yearling purchase and after four runs in Sydney for Waller, the three-year-old went through an on-line sale in January where he was picked up for $65,000 by Flying Start Syndications and transferred to Bedggood.
After running third in a maiden at Ballarat, Behaviour scored his maiden win at Cranbourne over 1000m before running third at Mornington on heavy ground on June 9.
Bedggood said Saturday’s race was an even contest with no standout amongst the opposition.
“Manolo Bling is the benchmark and Trembles has shown good ability to date,” Bedggood said.
“But with even luck I thought he should have won at Mornington the other day.
“Always Enuff comes through that race, it was the winner, and I would be surprised if he (Behaviour) wasn’t figuring somewhere in the finish.”
