An ultra-competitive sprint, with most returning off lengthy breaks, is set to prove a dynamic form reference at Monday’s holiday Warwick Farm meeting. In fact, this Benchmark 100 Hcp over 1000m wouldn’t be out of place on a Saturday, with three of the resuming runners already winners at Listed level. Racing returns to Warwick Farm on Monday.
Credit: Getty Heading that charge is talented four-year-old I Am Unstoppable who resumes off a 27-week break in his first outing for the new home track Ciaron Maher stable. The well-bred stallion hasn’t started since being unplaced in a Listed race at Flemington in late March, but signalled he’s ready to hit the ground running in Sydney with two eye-catching and improving open class trials. Yet despite being posted a short-priced favourite across early betting, the fresh rivals cannot be ignored.
Tough Newcastle-based Hard To Say resumes from the inside draw for the Jason Deamer stable behind two improving trials, and shooting for an eighth career win from only 23 starts. Godolphin’s talented Renosu is also back from the autumn via two trials, winning the latest and beating Hezdarnhottoo who then won first-up at Wyong, and high-class Airman who subsequently shocked the feature Group 2 Premiere Stakes field at Randwick second-up on Saturday. While both Renosu (five wins from 19) and I Am Unstoppable (two from eight) tasted Listed success early in their careers, it’s a much older galloper returning off a 60-week break who may s.