New Zealand champion Turn Me Loose (NZ) (Iffraaj {GB}) is in great form since an abbreviated spring campaign, with connections already eyeing potential prizes across the Tasman sea, Racing And Sports reported. The 2014 G1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas hero rolled a pair of eights in the 1100-metre G2 Schillaci S. at Caulfield Oct. 8 and in the 1200-metre G1 Darley Classic Nov. 5, respectively, both short of his ideal trip. Wet weather curtailed any further racetrack appearances, but co-trainer Murray Baker is optimistic about his stable star.
“He's going as well as he's ever gone,” Baker told Racing And Sports. “He'll trial at Cambridge on Jan. 10 and then he'll possibly go to Australia, though we're undecided yet, because he's still in the [G1] Telegraph [at Trentham Jan. 21].”
If Turn Me Loose forgoes the Telegraph, he could instead reappear in the G2 Australian S. at Moonee Valley on Jan. 27, before the 1400-metre G1 CF Orr S. at Caulfield Feb. 11 followed by a second run in the Feb. 25 Futurity S. there going that trip a fortnight later.
“He ran well in both those races last year and we think he'll go just as well this time around,” Baker concluded.
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