A former Victorian who was good enough to beat a smart maiden field at his second start more than 15 months ago is set to go back-to-back at Thursday’s feature Wyong meeting – and prove that a change is as good as a holiday.
Four-year-old Bak Da Man lines up for his third start in NSW in a benchmark 64 handicap over 1600m, four weeks after he charged home to easily claim a country benchmark 66 at Port Macquarie on a heavy 8 surface.
Bak Da Man ridden by Jye McNeil wins his maiden at Sale on August 30, 2020.Credit:Getty
That was Bak Da Man’s second run for the Nathan Doyle stable at Newcastle since switching from the Mick Price-Michael Kent jnr yard in Melbourne where, after showing early promise in that dominant maiden win, he quickly tackled Saturday metropolitan class in the spring of 2020.
But setbacks and a loss of form resulted in a move to the Hunter Valley, where wet tracks might just have reignited his career.
That won’t be any surprise to breeding buffs. Bak Da Man is by renowned UK wet-track sire Reliable Man, who won the group 1 Queen Elizabeth at Randwick in 2013. His Kiwi dam Bak Da Princess also has strong wet-track bloodlines.
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Meanwhile, Rosehill-based trainer David Payne will be looking for the one-two punch in a maiden over 1600m for metropolitan and provincial gallopers.
He saddles up two of the better fancied three-year-olds in So You Think gelding Caboteur and the well-named Chappelli, by Adelaide.
The stablemates have drawn alongside each other, and both come out of that same night race at Canterbury on a bottomless heavy 10.
Bak Da Man poised for back-to-back wins in the wet
Source: Philippines Alive
