Rhythm To Spare makes it back-to-back wins

Saturday 19 August 2017, 3:00pm

Mike Moroney plans to press on into spring with eight-year-old gelding Rhythm To Spare, who erased his trainer's pre-race concerns at Caulfield by winning again.

Rhythm To Spare won over 1600m at Flemington two weeks ago and Moroney admitted he started to panic before Saturday's Ramlegh Springs On Clyde Handicap (1600m) that he had been too easy on the gelding in the lead-up.

But apprentice Brandon Stockdale settled $4.40 favourite Rhythm To Spare midfield and then was able to get a nice run between horses in the first half of the straight before edging past leader Foundry ($12) to win by a short neck.

Moonovermanhattan ($13) was another short-half head away third with another short head to Jacquinot Bay in fourth.

Saturday's race was Rhythm To Spare's seventh of this preparation and his third win of the campaign.

"To keep him going to where we'd like to get him, I've just kept him fresh," Moroney said.

"I thought he might have been a bit fresh and I was starting to panic that I'd done the wrong thing, but it worked out well.

"I think there's another similar race for him coming up at Flemington.

"But at some stage during the spring, at a mile, we'll throw him in the deep end and just see where he ends up."

Another crack at the Toorak Handicap is a possibility.

Rhythm To Spare finished fifth in the race in 2014 and was among the tailenders in the Group One handicap a year later.

– 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 »