Morphettville trainer Paula Trenwith is aiming to build on her most successful racing season to date, with up to four runners expected at her home track.
Trenwith currently has a small team of only six horses in work at Morphettville, and Saturday could see two-thirds of her stable competing.
Six of Trenwith’s eight victories this year have come at metropolitan meetings, her most significant haul since records began on the Racing and Sports database.
The trainer has prepared 12 winners in a season twice before, but those wins were predominantly on the country circuit with a few provincial placings.
Savatoff, who contests the Sportsbet Get On Extra Handicap (2500m), will be chasing his third city win of the season.
The gelding scored at Morphettville Parks last August, and his most recent triumph was in the Onkaparinga Cup (2150m) at Oakbank in April.
Savatoff is set to make his ninth start of a campaign that commenced in February, and Trenwith mentioned that he will remain in work as long as the tracks are wet.
“He really does like the wet tracks, so he’s in at the right time of the year,” Trenwith said. “When you look at him, there’s still plenty of him. He holds his condition really well in the stable and he’s always really enthusiastic about his work. I don’t work him too hard on the track, or gallop him too much, so hopefully he can be in for a good winter campaign. I took to him Casterton last time chasing a wet track and I had him nominated for the 2500-metre race at Flemington on Saturday as well, but that was a very strong race. If it dries up here, I would be more than happy to go over the border with him, especially if the tracks remain wet.”
Aysgarth, a recent addition to the stable, runs in the Polywave – your partners in poly Handicap (1100m).
A former member of the Anthony and Sam Freedman stable, Aysgarth is a UK-bred galloper who finished second on debut for Trenwith on June 6.
“Sometimes with these horses that come from England, they can take a long time to acclimatise,” Trenwith explained. “His feet were terrible when I got him. I tried to get him going, but I couldn’t get him sound, so I tipped him out and he had the whole summer out. His feet are fantastic now. I’ve got a wonderful farrier. He needed that time to acclimatise, and where he went, it was a hot summer, and if he didn’t get used to Australia after that, he never would. He’s a portly little thing and he was underdone going into his last start, so he’s definitely got improvement in him.”
Ginger Sinner, similar to Savatoff, will be aiming for his third win of the season when he lines up in the SAJC Membership Available June 27 Handicap (1200m).
“He likes a wet track and is well into his campaign and is lovely and fit,” Trenwith commented.
A start for Babayka in the Sportsbet Race Replays Handicap (1050m) is uncertain, with the gelding drawing barrier 14 in a 15-horse field.
“He needs a good draw to show his best,” Trenwith concluded.
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