A trip to Adelaide in search of an elusive Group 1 victory is on the cards for Clinton McDonald\u2019s recent acquisition, Coleman.<\/p>\n
The four-year-old entire stepped out at the Cranbourne jumpouts on Monday morning and came home nicely under his own steam to finish just behind Group 1 winner Mornington Glory.<\/p>\n
McDonald is the third trainer Coleman has had in his career, having started off with Matt Laurie before he was then transferred to Chris Waller.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was very good this morning,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was his first trial back. He ran on Oaks Day, I thought he ran well but we\u2019re still learning about the horse, so we gave him a really good spell. He\u2019s come back in great order, and everyone saw the trial this morning, I thought he trialled terrific against a really well known trialler in Mornington Glory, so he was smoking up on the outside of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking at getting him ready for The Goodwood. If we can get a Goodwood under his name, he\u2019s obviously a horse that just got beaten in a Slipper, that\u2019s going to hold him in good stead.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a beautiful stallion now, he\u2019s got a great temperament and we\u2019re just looking for that Group 1 win with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Goodwood is due to take place at Morphettville on May 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trip to Adelaide in search of an elusive Group 1 victory is on the cards for Clinton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,269528,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-543936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coleman-goodwood-handicap-clinton-mcdonald","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}