Support from Sydney’s newest stable has convinced Josh Parr he can work to a timetable and travel schedule that could easily deliver winning results at two racetracks on Saturday.
Parr has taken important mounts at Rosehill and Kembla Grange as he bids to continue a purple patch that has coincided with ex-Darley trainer Peter Snowden opening for business at Randwick.
He will ride the Winter Cup favourite Destiny’s Kiss for Joe Pride but before heading to Rosehill he will partner highly rated three-year-old Cluster for the Snowden stable in a race at Kembla Grange.
“A lot of things had to fall into place to make it happen and now it is a matter of making the most of it,” Parr said.
Parr rode 200 winners for Darley when Snowden was in charge and the young jockey now spends his mornings riding trackwork at Randwick after the trainer opened a stable with his son Paul less than two months ago.
Coinciding with the Snowdens impressive start to their operation has been Parr’s improved ranking on the Sydney jockeys’ premiership table.
“We’ve had a good association and Peter assured me there would be rides there for me if I was riding work there so I took hold of that opportunity,” Parr said.
In Cluster, Parr will be hoping to bed down a ride that could take him a long way towards the thick of the spring carnival action.
Cluster is still a maiden after six starts but he makes his debut for the Snowdens after running in last year’s Golden Rose, Stutt Stakes and the Caulfield Guineas.
“He has shown Group One ability in the past and it will be nice for him to go down to Kembla Grange tomorrow and show his true class,” Parr said.
Parr reckons last-start Stayers Cup winner Destiny’s Kiss is more a horse for the moment.
Destiny’s Kiss is going for back-to-back Winter Cups as well as successive victories after winning the Stayers Cup at Randwick two weeks ago.
“It’s the perfect time of year for him because he is racing at a level where he can really compete at and he doesn’t mind a bit of sting out of the track as well,” Parr said.
