Boom Adelaide youngster Great Glen is the star attraction
at the local meeting at Morphettville on Saturday as he attempts to extend his unbeaten
run to three.
A member of the powerful Morphettville based Leon Macdonald
stable, Great Glen is a last start winner of the Group Two Breeders' Stakes when he held
out the John Hawkes trained Yell.
The runner-up from that race went on to edge out the
previously unbeaten boom Melbourne filly Innovation Girl before thrashing a stakes field
in Brisbane.
Great Glen's win in the Breeders' came just five days after
he thrashed a field of Maidens at the provincial track of Murray Bridge.
The just turned three-year-old is part owned by Des Pope, a
man who's runners are firing through the deeds of Rubitano and Innovation Girl, just to
name two.
Pope is not surprisingly excited about the upcoming spring
carnival and he is hoping the third member of the fabulous three resumes a winner in
Adelaide.
"It's going to be interesting on Saturday," Pope
said. "Great Glen is having his first start this preparation and hopefully he can
continue in the same way that he went out (for a spell)."
Connections of Great Glen are planning on aiming the
gelding at one of early feature races of the Melbourne Spring Carnival.
"All going well after his run in Adelaide, then he
will be sent here for the (Group Two) Ascot Vale Stakes," Macdonald's Melbourne
foreman Andrew Noblet said recently.
The Macdonald stable is looking forward to another
lucrative spring carnival with other stable representatives Li Lo Lill and Eagle Rhythm
being targeted at the feature staying events, while many feel the bonny mare Shaye Spice
is well up to some of the feature sprints.
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