Renowned horse breaker Rick Worthington could not have Rosehill hopeful Biloxi travelling better – he just wishes he had more of him in the small stable he looks after. "The actual horses I have are racing well," said Worthington, who has had three surgeries for a cancerous melanoma recently. "It's frustrating when you don't have the numbers and I've got empty boxes I'd love to have horses in. The ones that I have are racing well, but I need to get more horses." Biloxi can push his cause when he lines up in a hot sprint race, the sixth event, at Rosehill on Saturday. Despite a history of throat problems, he has returned with a couple of smart second placings this campaign, including one on Wyong Gold Cup day. "He had a week down at Bowral and the spring grass down at Bowral is as good as you get at this time of year," Worthington said. "It's like Cambridge in New Zealand. The horse has taught me to keep him fresh and keep it minimalistic. I do very little with him on the track and he enjoys that. He doesn't have an amazingly strong constitution so you've got to work with what we've got. Win, lose or draw, all I can say is I can do no more for him at the moment and it won't be an easy race at all."
Road To Summer thriving for Melissa Harrison
Taree trainer Melissa Harrison is thanking her lucky stars iron horse Road To Summer, a winner of his last four straight during a marathon 13-start campaign, landed in her country stable earlier this year. Harrison retains a 50 per cent share in the horse alongside her uncle Bruce Badcock after Road To Summer headed north in April. "This is his first preparation with me and I'd never had him before," Harrison said. "He came up from Victoria and has just thrived. He's just really enjoyed not living in a box 24/7 and I think he just enjoys the laidback lifestyle." Road To Summer lowered a 14-year-old track record in winning the Denman Cup at Muswellbrook last start, just 10 days after a Bowraville Cup romp. Harrison has enlisted noted frontrunning specialist Winona Costin to take the ride in the seventh at Randwick. "We're struggling to find races [for him]," Harrison said. "You can run him in those open cups, but you've got to find the right distance, too, so I guess we have to have a crack now. I'm really excited to take him to town because I know they're going to have to run me down."
Furnaces' trial form impresses Tye Angland
Tye Angland admitted he knows little about Godolphin's star two-year-old-in-waiting Furnaces, but was impressed with what he saw at a trial. "It was really good," Angland said. "He's drawn a good barrier and should run well." Bookmakers have taken no risks with the Exceed And Excel colt, Ladbrokes opening him as a skinny $1.60 favourite on debut in the second race at Rosehill. Furnaces won a Warwick Farm trial by three lengths in slick time in his only public appearance to date. Angland is a little better versed regarding Chris Waller's I'm Imposing, which resumes off a freshen-up after Hawkesbury's Rowley Mile in the feature Filante Handicap, the fourth event at Rosehill. "He had a trial at Warwick Farm where he was ran off his feet, but he made up ground from the 50 [metres] to the winning post," Angland said. "Barrier one is going to help him and he should go really well." I'm Imposing, now a nine-year-old, found a new lease of life at trips over a mile or shorter last preparation and chased home subsequent Epsom Handicap winner He's Your Man in the Winter Challenge in August.
