Warwick Farm preview: Trainer Tracey Bartley is hoping Mabel can bow out on a winning note
A $5,000 weanling buy from Inglis Digital in 2019, Mabel has been a wonderful member of Bartley's team with six wins, nine placings and over $400,000 in prizemoney.
A two-time city winner, Mabel last won was at Kembla's stand-alone meeting on The Gong Day in November 2023 when she won a Benchmark 78 Handicap but she has run some terrific races since.
She was runner-up to Angel Fund in a Randwick Midway in January
fourth to Wallenda on the Kensington in March.
This time in, the six-year-old was a three length seventh to Storm The Ramparts and fourth behind Bundeena both in a Benchmark 78 races at Randwick.
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'She is racing well and deserves to win another race in her last couple of runs,' said Bartley.
'She went well the other day. She just got held up a little bit.'
The daughter of Dream Ahead lines up in the Headwater @ Vinery Stud Handicap (1000m) where she has drawn barrier 1.
'She looks bang on again,' Bartley said.
'From barrier 1, she won't have to be right out the back. She should settle midfield. I imagine her settling fifth or sixth and hopefully they can get into the clear at the right time.
'She is dropping back in grade and if she has any luck from the alley, I think she will be hard to beat.
Joining Mabel on the trip to Warwick Farm is last start winner Magicon to tackle TAB Handicap (2200m).
The son of Prized icon has his first try over 2200m at Grafton on July 16 and led all-the-way to beat Peter Snowden's imported gelding Behtar.
'It was nice to see him win the other day because he's had a few issues,' Bartley said.
'He has kissing spine to we've had his back and hocks injected.
'It's nice to finally have had a preparation where everything has gone right.
'That was the first time we have been able to get him up to a distance we've always wanted to see him run over.
'I was rapt to see him to the job and I think he will really go on with it now.
'I don't know how strong this race is but I'm sure he will run a really nice race.'
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