IBLE’S GOOD SET-UP FOR ROSEHILL “GOAL”

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JOE Ible believes Common Goal will get a better set-up tomorrow as the Kembla Grange trainer chases another Midway Benchmark 72 Handicap.

Whilst stable star Barrengarry (who won two of these races on end at Royal Randwick in September) is enjoying a well-earned spell, Common Goal will have his second start this preparation in the 1300m event.

Ible was pleased with the five-year-old gelding’s first-up fourth to fellow Kembla Grange trainer Kerry Parker’s Let’s go Again in a 1200m Midway Benchmark 72 a5 Randwick on October 24.

And he is glad Parker’s mare won’t be a rival again tomorrow, going to the 1200m Benchmark 78 Handicap instead.

“Thanks Kerry,” Ible said this morning.

“With Let’s Go Again missing from the Midway, tomorrow’s race looks a really good set-up for Common Goal.

“The 1300m will suit him better, and I feel he can get control.

“Common Goal’s best win was in a Conditional Benchmark 68 Handicap at 1300m at Kembla Grange in April when he led throughout.

“His first-up performance was excellent, and he as trained on well since.”

Apprentice Coriah Keatings rode Common Goal on resumption, and partners him again at Rosehill.

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Her 3kg city claim means he will carry 53kg, and he has drawn nicely.

A lightly-raced gelding, Common Goal has faced the starter only 12 times so far for three wins and two seconds.

His 1300m record stands at two wins and a second from five starts.

The Midways are generally open races, and tomorrow’s affair looks to be no different.

Clarry Conners’ Maidoff (Nash Rawiller) is the early $3.50 favorite, with Common Goal at a generous $16.

Whilst Let’s Go Again is a Midway absentee, Parker will still be represented by Wild Thoughts.

Andrew Adkins, who rides Let’s Go Again, also has the Wild Thoughts mount.

Kembla Grange will be strongly represented in the Midway as Donna Grisedale has a trio of runners.

Zac Lloyd rides Powder Man, husband Jon partners Bow and Winona Costin takes the mount on Super Jane.

Hawkesbury trainer Jason Attard takes on the Midway with $41 chance Cryptonic (Tom Sherry).

He had hoped to get a start in last Saturday’s $500,000 Four Pillars Midway (1500m) at Randwick – won by Hawkesbury trainer Marc Chevalier’s Stand My Ground – but Cryptonic was an emergency and didn’t make the “cut”.

Cryptonic showed he is on the cusp of another success with a fast finishing third over 1500m at his home track on October 15.

STORY JOHN CURTIS, NOVEMBER 6, 2026 - PICS BRADLEY PHOTOS