Albury trainers take short trip for final day of the season

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Albury trainers take short trip for final day of the season

By Neil Evans

Albury stables are gunning for a big farewell on the final day of the 2022/23 racing season at Monday’s Corowa meeting.

Popular and evergreen trainer Ron Stubbs, renowned for getting his runners to perform fresh, takes aim with a pair of lightly raced three-year-olds, both resuming for only their third starts.

Albury trainer Ron Stubbs.

Albury trainer Ron Stubbs.Credit: Getty

Oke Moon, a daughter of somewhat unfashionable sire Odyssey Moon, returns in a maiden handicap over 1000m on a surface likely to improve back into soft 6 range.

Having shown enough improvement in two runs at Wagga in autumn, Oke Moon is expected to come to hand sharply, despite a tricky fresh draw.

But the trainer has to overcome plenty of familiar rivals, starting with debutant two-year-old Canny Hell.

A son of prolific soft-track sire Hellbent, Canny Hell looked very forward winning a recent heavy-track trial at home with plenty in hand for Albury trainer Kym Davison.

Mitchell Beer is another trainer making the short trip from Albury.

Mitchell Beer is another trainer making the short trip from Albury.Credit: Getty

The Mitch Beer stable has three runners entered in the race, including a pair of two-year-old fillies both having their first start; while another Albury trainer in Donna Scott pins her faith in four-year old Freakshake third-up and two-year-old Galah filly Teneca Reign on debut.

But most eyes in and around the Stubbs yard will centre on the third race — a class 1 handicap over 1000m — when his talented and powerful three-year-old filly Rumours Abound returns.

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The daughter of group 1 winner Press Statement hasn’t been seen since a dominant second start win at Wagga in mid-January when she blitzed her rivals by a space, clocking a very sick 32.29 seconds for her final 600m.

In his customary fashion, Stubbs brings her back without any public trials, and has seemingly found a very modest race to open her new prep.

Again, though, the main threat appears to come from a rival Albury stable in honest three-year-old Black Tahitian who drops back from a stronger class of race third-up.

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