Trainer Scott Brunton will walk onto the track for the Tasmanian Racing Club meeting in Hobart today in the sure knowledge that he will train the winner in the $125,000 Tasmanian Stakes … even though the race is only due to go off at 4.47pm local time.
In an extraordinary turn of events Brunton will saddle all four runners in the Listed event with his charge for victory likely to be headed by the aptly named The Inevitable, a seven-year-old son of Dundeel who has won no less than half of his twenty-six starts, including winning his last three races in a row.
Two of those last three wins came in Listed company … in the Newmarket Handicap over 1200m at Launceston and the Conquering Stakes over 1400m at the same venue. Today, The Inevitable steps up to 1600m … a distance over which he has already won on three occasions.
David Pires, The Inevitable’s regular pilot will be in the saddle as the horse bids to make it four in a row.
Incredibly, Bond Street Beau will be looking to stretch his own winning sequence to even more than that after having won his last four starts.
Those wins came over distances ranging from 1600m to 2200m … and he comes back in distance here from 2200m in his last start to the 1600m trip, in what is a first-up run following a seven week layoff.
Mandela Effect, who has a third place in the Easter Cup at Caulfield to his credit, and the ultra-consistent place-getter First Accused are Brunton’s … and the fields … only other runners.
What are the chances of a Brunton dead-heat?
Now that would really take a unique situation to a new level!
