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Impatient Star Set For Epsom Start
Owner Fred Peisah believes Impatient Star has the makings of Group One
winner and all going well, the gelding will be aimed at the Epsom
Handicap in October.
Impatient Star, who is trained by Bill Prain, has won three of his 11
starts this campaign which began in February and Peisah sees no reason
why he can't keep going.
"We will keep him up for the better races, he shows no signs of
needing a spell," Peisah said.
"Bill has a great set-up at Warwick Farm and the horse will do nothing
for the next ten days and then run again in a couple of weeks.
"I don't think a race like the Epsom is beyond him. He is a horse who
needs the pace on and it is always on in a race like that."
Impatient Star has won his past two starts over the Randwick 1600
metres on heavy tracks including Saturday's class six success.
His sire Arena stands at Peisah's Lomar Park Stud and produced his
first Group One winner in Regal Cheer who claimed the Coolmore Classic
during the autumn.
Arena won the 1998 Victoria Derby (2500m) and 1999 Canterbury Guineas
(1800m) and Prain and Peisah experimented with him over longer trips.
"Billy thinks he will get 2000 metres but I think he is better over
1600," Peisah said.
"We experimented with him over the longer distances but he just failed
to run them out."
Impatient Star's best performance over longer than 1600 metres was his
1-3/4 length second to subsequent Queensland Derby runner-up Cape
Breton over 1800m at Rosehill on May 20.
Peisah said Impatient Star had inherited his father's toughness.
"Arena has really stamped him," he said.
The association between Peisah and the popular Prain has been a long
and successful one but the two have not yet snared a Group One victory
together.
Moment's Pleasure looked to have the 1995 Coolmore in her keeping
before being nabbed by Flitter while Regal Chamber was third to
Guineas in the 1997 Golden Slipper.
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