\u201cShe is handling it all well and we think she is a pretty good filly,\u201d says O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has a wide-ish draw but that isn\u2019t my problem these days, our job is to get them fit and ready and I think she is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ellis Classic will be by far the best form guide to the Oaks as it brings together almost all the serious contenders and it is hard to imagine a filly that races poorly on Saturday will win the Oaks in a fortnight.<\/p>\n
But the race has rare depth and any one of Ohope Wins, Tajana, Chilling Out, Fairy Dream or Single Red, if she starts in this instead of the Guineas, could win without surprising.<\/p>\n
The stable has Yamoto Satona (R4, No 5) in the Guineas and he seems ideally suited to the longer trips in the colours of harness racing legend Barry Purdon.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is developing into a real Derby horse and he has to be a good chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stablemate Grail Seeker will miss the BCD Sprint tomorrow, but O\u2019Sullivan and Scott still have Tomodachi in what could be the highlight of the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wasn\u2019t at her best in the Telegraph last start but we are confident she will race better this week,\u201d says O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has barrier two and I think that gives her the opportunity to not get as far back. But it is a strong field.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan suggests Crackercol (R3, No 3) is racing well and has to be a good chance earlier in the card.<\/p>\n
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShe is handling it all well and we think she is a pretty good filly,\u201d says O\u2019Sullivan. \u201cShe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28210,23602,3013,198,12070,4915,4596,56136,30950,78,17470,25449,2686,111,43,139,69,152862,69828,36062,15412,3057,701,8489,810,6923,6027,6202],"class_list":["post-269317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-3yearold","tag-amounts","tag-but","tag-can","tag-certain","tag-classic","tag-competition","tag-ellis","tag-fillies","tag-in","tag-lance","tag-level","tag-moving","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ohope","tag-osullivan","tag-rapa","tag-spot","tag-steps","tag-tomorrow","tag-trainer","tag-up","tag-what","tag-win","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}