Sydney Morning Herald
April 18th 2010
GAI WATERHOUSE is already thinking about the Melbourne Cup with exciting stayer Herculian Prince after he dominated the Japan Racing Association Plate at Randwick yesterday.
The four-year-old has won four races in the past month, rising from a midweek race at Canterbury to claim his second listed win.
''What a horse and a half he is,'' Waterhouse proclaimed. ''He has just done everything we have asked of him and does it so easily.
''He is going to make a very good stayer and a race like the Melbourne Cup would be nice for him.''
Herculian Prince took his record to seven wins from 11 starts, leading all the way and scoring by 1¼ lengths from imported stayer Above Average with Booming getting home well for third a long neck away.
Glyn Schofield was also bullish about the future with Herculian Prince, which is likely to have one more run this preparation, though not in next week's Sydney Cup.
''That was a proper race out there,'' he said. ''It was a race of good tempo on testing ground and he was just too good for them.
''He has done nothing wrong this time and he has got a big future as a stayer.''
The runner-up, Above Average, seems a typical grinding English stayer and he will be tipped out with a view towards the Melbourne spring.
''At 2000 metres he just could not pick the other one up,'' part-owner Chris Lawler said. ''It might be different at 2400m but you will have to wait for the spring to see that. The good thing is he's already qualified for the Melbourne Cup.''
While the first two home will not be back at Randwick next week for the Sydney Cup, Kiwi stayer Booming will. He did his best work at the end in his first run since being runner-up to Zavite in the Auckland Cup last month.
''It was a good run. He is in the Sydney Cup and we will see how he has come through the race,'' Booming's trainer Jeff Lynds said.
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