By Daithi Harvey
New Zealand based training partners Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman achieved a notable feat when winning both the G1 Australian Oaks and G1 Australian Derby at Sydney during the autumn and both of those winners are reportedly on target for a return to Australia for the spring carnival at Melbourne. In fact both Bonneval (NZ) (Makfi {GB}) and Jon Snow (NZ) (Iffraaj {GB}) have the same early season target as Andrew Forsman revealed, “We'll probably look at giving them a trial here in early August and then get them over to Melbourne in the middle of August. The Group One Memsie Stakes [1400m] on September 2 at Caulfield is their likely starting point.” Murray Baker knows what it takes to win a G1 Caulfield Cup having done so with Mongolian Khan (Aus) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), who like Jon Snow, was also a G1 BMW Australian Derby winner the same year and the Caulfield Cup is also likely to be on the radar for one or both. “Obviously they are both Caulfield Cup candidates, so that would be the target at this stage unless one of them puts their hand up and says they are good enough to take on Winx in the Cox Plate,” Forsman told Racing And Sports.
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