By Glenn Davis<\/p>\n
Mareeba trainer Alex Malliff begins his quest to gain two spots in the $200,000 Country Cups Challenge Final in December with a two-pronged attack at Atherton on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Malliff will launch his bold bid for the 1600-metre final at Doomben with Love On Sunday and Devil Kick in the Atherton Cup which is a qualifying leg for the Country Cups Challenge Final on December 6.<\/p>\n
Malliff can\u2019t separate his pair but is confident one of them can give him his first Atherton Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t separate them and I\u2019ll be scratching my head right up to start time trying to choose between them,\u201d Malliff said.<\/p>\n
Eight-year-old Love On Sunday has been a goldmine for the former plumber winning more than $156,000 in prizemoney.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been a great buy after I got him for $5,000 at an Inglis online auction and he\u2019s now won 10 races for us,\u201d Malliff said.<\/p>\n
Love On Sunday almost gave Malliff his first Atherton Cup three years ago when he finished second to the Janel Ryan-trained Fast Train.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was his first time over 2000 metres that year,\u201d Malliff said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s older and a lot stronger now and he\u2019s more of a Cups horse these days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Glenn Davis Mareeba trainer Alex Malliff begins his quest to gain two spots in the $200,000 Country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-160599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}