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Foxton gelding He’s A Battler may be viewed as just that ahead of Saturday’s Gr.1 Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa, but anything can happen in horse racing and trainer Suzy Gordon is daring to dream of an upset in the $700,000 feature.

“We’re obviously learning about him, he’s been very good and is probably not the soundest horse, so we’ll be careful with him.” 

“She’d been working well. I thought she’d probably go a good race today, but I thought she might need to get up to 2000m.”

“He switched off a little bit, but when I asked him, he really sprinted and put on a pretty impressive last 350m.”

“He’s led in a couple of his wins, he’s pretty adaptable but he does enjoy rolling along in front."

An online purchase of $4700 has turned into more than $63,000 in stakes with synthetic specialist Doubtful Sound, who played another starring role in Friday’s $32,000 Red Nose Raceday 26 July Rating 65 (1600m) at Riccarton.