DISTANCE THE RIGHT STEP FOR PROMISING FILLY AT ROSEHILL

JASON Attard could have run his promising filly Oui Oui Oui in a Midway Benchmark 72 Handicap over 1200m at Rosehill Gardens tomorrow.

Instead he chose to start the lightly-raced three-year-old against all comers in a 1400m Benchmark 72 Handicap for a very good reason.

“I feel she is a ‘miler’, and the 1400m in town after winning over that distance at home late last month is the logical progression,” Attard said this morning.

“Oui Oui Oui has trained on nicely since her Hawkesbury success.”

A homebred for Kate Nivison (Etak Thoroughbreds), the three-year-old daughter of 2018 The Everest winner Yes Yes Yes has won two of her four starts.

Attard raised the bar high with the filly at only her third start when she ran eighth to Media World in the Group 3 Hawkesbury Guineas (1400k) at the stand-alone Saturday metropolitan fixture on May 3.

Oui Oui Oui made good ground from 14th at the 400m, and then dropped right back in grade to take a Midway Class 1 Handicap (1400m) at Hawkesbury on May 27 as a $1.35 hotpot.

“Whilst she won on the heavy track that day, I don’t think she was all that comfortable on the ground,” Attard said.

“Her class got her home.

“The Soft 6 at Rosehill tomorrow will be more to her liking.”

Attard, who is back training in his own right and striving to put a city winner back on the board, has had to make a riding change on Oui Oui Oui.

Tom Sherry has partnered her at all three starts this preparation, but is riding at Eagle Farm tomorrow and Winona Costin takes over.

“Winona rides both trackwork and in races for me, and gave Oui Oui Oui a good gallop at home last week and was happy with her,” Attard said.

“Tomorrow’s race will tell me where I am at with the filly, and I’m expecting her to run well.

“She’s pretty versatile, having won on both good and heavy ground, and drops 3.5kg on the weight she carried in winning at Hawkesbury last time.”

Kristen Buchanan and Kris Lees were provincial winners at Gosford yesterday.

Buchanan won the Provincial Class 1/Maiden Plate (2100m) with $13 chance So You Ready (Jay Ford), and Lees took the Class 1 Handicap (1100m) with $2.05 favorite Hawker Hall (Jason Collett).

So You Think three-year-old So You Ready was a $75,000 Inglis Premier yearling sale buy in 2023 for Buchanan, whilst Russian Revolution three-year-old Hawker Hall fetched $150,000 the same year as a Magic Millions purchase.

Lees’ apprentice William Stanley made it two in a row for trainer Ciaron Maher, on Covert Thinking ($3 favorite) in the Benchmark 64 Handicap (1600m).

Story John Curtis, June 13, 2025 - Pics Bradley Photos