It’s been a while coming, but Skirt The Law, the Tony Gollan trained 2023 Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic winner, will be back in action for the first time in seven months at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
When the Better Than Ready filly won the Magic Millions it was a win which maintained her unbeaten record at the time … pushing her to three wins from three starts.
While she failed to add to her list of victories in four subsequent starts, all of those outings came in races away from home … one in New South Wales and three in Victoria … and all but one of those starts was in Group company, where her results included a second place in the Group 3 Quezette Stakes.
Skirt The Law’s proposed summer schedule hit a roadblock when she was found to have suffered bone chips in her knee, and the treatment and recovery period that followed that setback accounts for her time away from racing.
Gollan certainly isn’t shirking any opposition as Skirt The Law will step out, first-up, in the Listed Mick Dittman Plate over 1000m where the nominations include, amongst others, the likes of Abounding (the last start Magic Millions Three-Year-Old Guineas winner), Cifrado (the Champagne Classic and Sires Produce winner – both Group 2 races), Party For Two (the Three-Year-Old Jewel winner) and Facile (the Group 3 P J Bell winner at Randwick in her last start).
Skirt The Law will have a new rider on Saturday, due to circumstance, not design.
Ryan Maloney, who has partnered Skirt The Law in all of her starts to date, cannot ride at Skirt The Law’s allotted weight of 55kg, so Vlad Duric will take over reins … making it pretty much a like-for-change in rider, both in terms of ability and experience.
Maloney is expected to reunite with Skirt The Law later in her preparation with a Stradbroke run pencilled in as her preferred grand final.
