Connections are hoping patience pays off when Dream All Day makes her return to racing at Flemington on Saturday.
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Dream All Day, a younger sister to star Savabeel mare Atishu, is entered for a fillies and mares benchmark 78 grade race over 1400m.
Atishu sold for $2.7 million on the Gold Coast last week having won 11 of her 51 starts and just shy of $6 million in prize money, having been originally purchased as a yearling at Karaka for $260,000 by Go Racing.
Dream All Day still has a long way to go to match the deeds of Atishu who was a three-time winner at Group One level, but as a rising five-year-old Dream All Day has a good record having raced on seven occasions for two wins and five minor placings.
The mare has not raced since finishing third over 1800m at Flemington in January and sports the colours of breeders Waikato Stud.
“She’s prepped up well,” Kent Jnr said.
“She’s been working at our beach stable which she really enjoys, and she trialled well. She was on the heels of Zloties in a jump-out last week.
“That mare was race fit and is a Group Two winner and pulled away from her late, but Blake Shinn thought her work through the line was good.
“She will probably be vulnerable fresh, 1400m, in better grade this prep, but she has a big finish, and I think we learned a bit from her last prep.
“I don’t think she enjoyed being ridden too close to the speed. She got away with it when she won at Flemington as that race was devoid of any pace at all and at her next one, we rode her the same way and she didn’t have the same finish.
“I think when she is conserved early, she can be dynamic late.”
In form apprentice Luke Cartwright, who rode a treble at a recent Sandown Saturday meeting, will ride Dream All Day taking 3kg off her 56kg impost.
“I think it will be a nice kick-off, and I think we’ll then look to go out in trip,” Kent Jnr said.
“She’s a sister to Atishu so 2000m should eventually suit.
“She’s not dour, she’s got a turn of foot.
“Do we think we want to get her out quickly, or do we keep her fresh for a turn of foot. If she could take her turn of foot to 2000m, she would be very effective.”