NEWCASTLE trainer Jason Deamer will consider a black-type debut for Our Renaissance in Brisbane if she can repeat her city form of last preparation at Rosehill on Saturday.
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The six-year-old mare will back up from an impressive first-up victory over 1000 metres at Muswellbrook on November 25 in race five, a 1100m benchmark 85 handicap, at Rosehill.
The win, in which she burst to the lead in the closing stages after sitting third in running, was her seventh in 18 starts and continued a strong return from a bleeding episode after a third place at Warwick Farm in October 2015.
Our Renaissance, a winner of $161,255 in stakes, had two victories, at Wyong and Rosehill, in four starts last time in and finished powerfully to hold out Dal Cielo, trained by fellow Novocastrian Kris Lees, in her first run back.
She is set to again meet Dal Cielo as well another Lees runner, Awasita, and Newcastle trainer Paul Perry’s Last Witness.
Deamer said the race would be a step up in class for Our Renaissance but all indications pointed to her producing another top effort.
“It looks a winnable race,” Deamer said. “With the scratchings, she’ll come into barrier six of 11, which is not too bad.
“She’s pulled up really well and she went into that last race very fit, so we’ve just kept her ticking over and kept her happy.
“She likes a firm track, so it should be perfect with a good 4 and no rain predicted.
“It’s a competitive race but she’ll hold her own against them.”
Our Renaissance is yet to reach black-type level but Deamer said connections were eyeing a listed race in Brisbane on New Year’s Eve and “we’d definitely look at it” if successful on Saturday.
“We’ll try to find a listed race for her,” he said. “That would add some more value to her as a broodmare later on, but we’re just taking it race by race, because she has bled before, so we want to look after her.”
Deamer has 11 horses in work and said Our Renaissance was “probably the best I have there at the moment”. Kathy O’Hara, who steered Our Renaissance to victory at Muswellbrook in her first race with the mare, has retained the ride.
Our Renaissance was a $9.50 chance with TAB Fixed Odds on Friday.
Perry, meanwhile, has Der Meister racing over 2000m and Petrossian over 1200m on the Rosehill program.
Like Our Renaissance, Petrossian is a last-start winner at Muswellbrook on November 25. He meets another Newcastle-trained last-start winner in What Could Be, for Alan Scorse.
Lees’ Onemorezeta and Muswellbrook trainer Jan Bowen’s Eminent Duke will contest the 1400m benchmark 91 handicap.
In the highway handicap (1400m), Darryl Roberts’ Bills A Goodie and Larry Fairhall’s Mr Bonjove will carry Hunter hopes.
At Eagle Farm, Lees’ Game Pie and Invitations race with Kerrin McEvoy aboard. Aaron Bullock will ride Just Dreaming and Blazing Steel for Lees at Hawkesbury.
