Single Choice has another Derby option
Ballarat trainer Matt Cumani will chase another Derby with promising stayer Single Choice (Anders), who headed north on Tuesday for Saturday week’s Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm.
The gelding enters the Queensland feature off a solid effort for fourth in the Gr.1 South Australian Derby (2500m) won by former Kiwi Wigmore (NZ) (Sweynesse).
Single Choice tracked the eventual winner throughout but elected to go wide on the Soft 7 track and loop the field rounding the home turn, whilst the breaks came for Wigmore.
“We were unlucky, I think, on the day in Adelaide,” Cumani told Racenet.
“It was part of the plan to try and find better ground but, in hindsight, we probably didn’t need to.
“We had the perfect spot. Had we just held it, he probably would have gone very close to winning, I would say.”
Single Choice had previously with run out an impressive winner of the Listed Galilee Series Final (2400m) at Caulfield.
A graduate of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale, Single Choice has won four of his 11 starts, with Cumani pleased with the manner the youngster has handled the workload.
“He’s been up a while but he seems to handle it very well,” Cumani said.
“He’s looking a little bit wintery, which puts a bit of a dampener on my view of them, but he’s feeling really well.
“I think he deserves another chance at a Group One before he turns four.”
Single Choice was presented at the Ready To Run Sale by Riversley Park and secured by Cumani for $80,000.
Although he is by speedy sire Anders, a son of Not A Single Doubt, Single Choice also boasts staying influences through his dam Sebring Sally, a stakes winner who finished fourth in the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) and second in the Gr.2 Doomben Roses (2000m).
