By RUSSELL BENNETT
CRANBOURNE trainer Ken Keys will be out in search of a unique double this weekend with Rich Enuff lining up in Saturday’s Caulfield Guineas and First Course set for Sunday’s Cranbourne Cup.
Keys won his home cup in 2011 with Boom ‘N’ Zoom and has set his six-year-old gelding First Course for this year’s race.
With Jackie Beriman on board he finished fourth in the Caulfield RSL Welfare Fund Plate in his last start late last month after a three-week freshen up.
Rich Enuff, a three-year-old colt, will line up in Saturday’s $1 million Guineas.
At the time of going to print, the nominations list for the $200,000 Cranbourne Cup (held over 2025 metres) includes local trainer Mick Kent’s You Think So, Epingle and Pyrrolic. You Think So is returning after a 42-week spell.
Fellow Cranbourne trainer Robbie Laing has nominated All Vital, Rowland and Tristram’s Sun while locally born and raised superstar Craig Williams is set to ride Mr O’Ceirin.
The Jamie Edwards-trained seven-year-old gelding Sertorius, which finished third in this year’s $1 million Sydney Cup, fourth in the $1.5 million BWM Handicap and second in the $500,000 Futurity Stakes is also among the list of nominations – as is David Hayes’ Stipulate and Extra Zero.
Stipulate finished fifth in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington and seventh in the Underwood at Caulfield over recent weeks.
Champion hoop Glen Boss piloted German import Pakal to a massive victory in last year’s Cranbourne Cup. Pakal passed the post more than two lengths ahead of Sertorius and Mourinho, which is also among this year’s nominations.
A bumper weekend of racing for the Cranbourne Turf Club will be kick-started on Friday night with the $100,000 Pinker Pinker Plate, named in memory of Greg Eurell’s 2011 Cox Plate winner.
The Stephen Brown-trained Canali will be out to defend his 1000-metre Apache Cat Classic title in Race 9 on Sunday’s card.
