{"id":16895,"date":"2017-03-23T06:28:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16895"},"modified":"2017-03-23T06:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:28:29","slug":"sheidel-on-target-for-g1-william-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2017\/03\/23\/sheidel-on-target-for-g1-william-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheidel on target for G1 William Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amarina born and raised Sheidel<\/strong> (Holy Roman Emperor x Laventour)\u00a0already has an Oakleigh Plate win this campaign and her co-trainer Tom Dabernig believes she is in the right form to challenge for another Group One victory in the William Reid Stakes.<\/p>\n

“She seems to be absolutely flying,” Dabernig said.<\/p>\n

Sheidel ran in the Oakleigh Plate first-up at Caulfield last month and snared her first elite-level win, leading under champion rider Joao Moreira and holding off a challenge from stablemate Faatinah.<\/p>\n

The mare then went to the Newmarket Handicap down the Flemington 1200m straight and, after taking a trail behind the leader Star Turn, Sheidel finished fourth in the race won in dominant fashion by stablemate Redkirk Warrior.<\/p>\n

Sheidel gets another crack at a Group One win in Friday night’s William Reid (1200m) at Moonee Valley and is on the second line of betting at $4.80 behind Star Turn who narrowly beat her home last start.<\/p>\n

Dabernig felt Damien Oliver restrained the mare too much early in the Newmarket which he thought cost her a closer finish.<\/p>\n

“If he would have let her flow I reckon she would have run a place for sure. She probably would have finished second,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think she’s going really well.<\/p>\n

“She has had a couple of goes at Moonee Valley which haven’t been her best efforts but I think she was poorly ridden so I’m not sure it was entirely the Valley.”<\/p>\n

The former West Australian mare finished third in a 955m handicap in her first start for Lindsay Park at the corresponding Moonee Valley meeting last year while her only other start at the track was a fourth in the Group Two McEwen Stakes (1000m) in September last year.<\/p>\n

The five-year-old, to be ridden by Blake Shinn, has barrier nine in the field which has been reduced to 12 after the scratching of Kuro.<\/p>\n

“I think she’ll just put herself on the speed, hopefully sit outside the leader and be hard to beat,” Dabernig said.<\/p>\n

“She’s one of those horses that can sit on the pace and maintain a good strong gallop. She can get some of the horses who need to build into their races under pressure and that’s definitely her advantage.<\/p>\n

“She would want to begin well, but if she jumps cleanly I think she’ll be in it for a long way and be hard to get past.”<\/p>\n

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