By Brittany Graham\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marketplace has already managed to take a very promising step forward in his maiden Australian campaign.<\/p>\n
Arriving in Sydney a week ago, trainer Regan Todd has wasted no time in getting his stable star acquainted with Australia\u2019s speed capital.<\/p>\n
Taking the opportunity to give last year\u2019s New Zealand three-year-old of the year a trip to Menangle for a piece of trackwork on Saturday, he then stepped out under trial conditions today.<\/p>\n
And there was no mucking around.<\/p>\n
Lining up against proven open class types like Captains Knock and Ubetcha Tigerpie, Marketplace recorded a 1.50.1second mile rate, while delivering dazzling closing splits of 27.5 and 26.0 seconds on the way home to win the workout.<\/p>\n
It was a perfect kick-off point and one that Todd was more than happy with.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did it nicely and the driver (Luke McCarthy) was happy, so we are right on track\u201d.<\/p>\n
The plan is now to race at Menangle next Saturday, June 13 in a Free For All pace over 2300 metres where he will draw widely due to the preferential nature of the draw.<\/p>\n
That will be three weeks out from his major target of the $300,000 Rising Sun at Albion Park where the gelded son of Bettors Delight is $4 second favourite behind flying mare Captains Mistress.<\/p>\n
Dependent on next Saturday’s run, a decision will be made whether he has another start in lead up to the rich three- and four-year-old feature.<\/p>\n
While consideration was given to bringing stablemate and in-form three-year-old Stumblin In across to contest Derby features, he will stay at home with a strong group of locals likely to prove a significant challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brittany Graham\u00a0 Marketplace has already managed to take a very promising step forward in his maiden Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-458424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458424","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=458424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}