Valley start not confirmed for Mawahibb

Thursday 18 June 2015, 10:52am

Lightly raced Sydney two-year-old Mawahibb is no certainty to make his Melbourne debut at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Mawahibb is the $3 favourite for the Silver Thomas Hanley (1200m) in early betting for Saturday's race.

Co-trainer Wayne Hawkes confirmed the half-brother to the 2014 Golden Slipper winner Mossfun was still in Sydney but had a booking to travel to Melbourne on Thursday night.

"He's still in Sydney and I haven't talked to (co-trainers) my father or Michael as yet," Hawkes said.

"He's pencilled in to come but he's drawn 10 of 11 which doesn't impress me a lot."

Mawahibb has raced twice finishing fourth on debut to Golden Slipper winner Vancouver at Rosehill in January before resuming with a narrow second to Brigadoon Rise at Canterbury on June 10.

Hawkes says Mawahibb is being considered for a Melbourne trip to escape the wet weather in Sydney and he is expecting a few more stablemates to follow.

"There's a few coming or booked to come that are getting out of that wet weather," Hawkes said.

"I had two come on Tuesday, another two or three are pencilled in for Thursday night that will be running in the next week or two."

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »