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“We’ll just keep her shorter, around 1400 for a bit and go from there.”

“It was the perfect run for her. When they straightened up, she got a lovely run through, and she has come through her run fine."

“He is a long way off, but he is a really nice horse with a really good turn of foot for a big fella.” 

The connections of The Grey Goose had a healthy payday when the daughter of Reliable Man took out the $200,000 ODT Southern Mile Final (1600m) at Wingatui earlier this month, and they are hoping she is on target for another.

“We did get a long way off them at one stage, but I could feel I had plenty of horse under me and when I asked her she kept coming."

Trainer Jo-Ann Gordon is prepared to give Sutherland the benefit of the doubt for his last start defeat and hoping home track advantage and testing underfoot conditions on Sunday can see the mercurial character back to his best.