Globe will chase a fourth straight win when he heads to Sandown for the King's Coronation Cup
The King’s Coronation Cup at Sandown has a ring to it of a race of importance which it may be in the career of the unbeaten Globe.
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained four-year-old will look to extend his winning sequence to four when he lines up in 1800m benchmark 100 company on Saturday.
Globe has gone from a 1400m Pakenham maiden win on debut to another victory at Pakenham before leading throughout over 1800m in a benchmark 64 race on April 19.
Price and Kent do not their older horses through the grades so quickly, but there is something about Globe that makes plenty of appeal.
“Very rarely would we put an older horse up in grade so sharply from a benchmark 64 to a benchmark 100, he’s effectively jumping five grades,” Kent Jnr said.
“But when Mick and I have a good feeling about a horse, we like to get optimistic, and we don’t want to waste too many runs with him.
“We want to get his rating up and we think this will be the last run of the preparation, so if we can lift his rating ahead of the Spring Carnival, that would be fantastic.”
Globe carried 58.5kg after Celine Gaudrey’s 3kg claim when last successful and he will drop to 51kg on Saturday with Gaudrey retaining the ride.
Kent Jnr said Globe would not know himself with that weight.
He said a preparation at their Warrnambool stable, without racing, had been the making of Globe.
“He was mentally immature,” Kent Jnr said.
“We sent him down to the ‘bool for a whole preparation without racing him, just so he could get behind a rowing boat, go over some hurdles, jump on the truck and go to the beach, see different things.
“At Cranbourne he would stop and buck riders off and spook at everything. He was a real big baby mentally, but going to Warrnambool has been the making of him.
“Not many win three in a row and by a bigger margin each time they go up in grade.
“He’s got the best racing style. He jumps clean, lobs his head on his chest, bowls along at a nice tempo and then finds under pressure.
“How much he finds under a different type of pressure this weekend will be interesting.”
