Golden Slipper winner Mossfun will be kept purely to sprinting races when she returns as a three-year-old.
John Hawkes, who co-trains Mossfun with sons Michael and Wayne, ruled out this daughter of Mossman running in Saturday’s $1 million ATC Sires Produce Stakes (1400 m) at Randwick.
“That’s it, she finished until the spring, she’s going to the paddock now,” Hawkes said.
“There’s plenty of races for sprinters, we don’t have to get too far ahead of ourselves.”
Asked if Mossfun, a winner of four or her five starts and $2,494,000 in prizemoney, could stretch out to be a Thousand Guineas contender, Hawkes replied: “No, she is a sprinter.
“Next season is a long way away, she’s going to have a nice break. This is her first preparation, she hasn’t really had a good spell.”
Hawkes believes Mossfun, a $80,000 yearling, is as effective on top of the ground as she is in the wet as she displayed on yesterday’s Heavy 8 track.
“She is as good on the dry as she is in the wet,” Hawkes declared.
“When it is wet she handles it and some of the others don’t handle it as well. That’s not her fault, that’s just the way it is.”
But, Hawkes said tracks rated Good were a thing of the past with them being prepared, especially in Victoria, with ‘give in them’.
“They makes them Dead every week now so you really want something that can handle soft ground,” Hawkes said.
Hawkes said the stable would not have a ATC Sires runner, but London Lolly or Kaepernick, an unraced son of Fastnet Rock could run in the $200,000 Kindergarten Stakes (1100m) at Randwick on Saturday.
– Racing Network
