{"id":3624,"date":"2012-12-17T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2012-12-17T01:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T01:36:00","slug":"clevadude-the-excitement-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/clevadude-the-excitement-builds\/","title":{"rendered":"CLEVADUDE … THE EXCITEMENT BUILDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the exciting debut performance of Bel Esprit 2YO, Clevadude, at Cranbourne yesterday, Patrick Bartley spoke with trainer Rick Hore-Lacy:<\/span><\/p>\n

Clevadude, a $225,000 graduate from the Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast, recorded an effortless win prompting the trainer to target the Magic Millions Classic and Golden Slipper.<\/span><\/div>\n
”It’s a bit of a stretch to say that Clevadude is the very best horse I’ve ever trained. I’ve had some very good ones and while this bloke is a good horse, he’s got a long way to go,” Hore-Lacy said.<\/span><\/div>\n
”He’s a very quiet horse who’s adapted to racing perfectly.”<\/span><\/div>\n
Hore-Lacy has already won a Golden Slipper, with Canny Lad in 1990, and many believe he could have won another two Slippers had luck been on his side.<\/span><\/div>\n
He prepared the outstanding Redoute’s Choice, but the colt’s hopes of a Golden Slipper success were thwarted when he became sick 12 hours before the race. Redoute’s Choice has gone on to be one of Australasia’s finest stallions.<\/span><\/div>\n
”Clevadude has done what all of my very, very good horses have done, like Redoute’s Choice, Canny Lad, Toorak Toff, that win a jump-out by missing the start, circling the field and winning,” Hore-Lacy said. ”Last Tuesday I trialled him at Caulfield and it wasn’t much of a trial as he just bolted in. The timing wasn’t ideal as his first race start was just four days away, but I had to do it to fit the program.”<\/span><\/div>\n
Clevadude will compete at Mooney Valley in a fortnight before heading to the Gold Coast to compete in the $2.1 million Magic Millions two weeks later.<\/span><\/div>\n
If successful, Hore-Lacy then intends to ease up on Clevadude and aim him at the Golden Slipper.<\/span><\/div>\n
”It’s early days yet. He’s got to win at Mooney Valley probably to get him into the Magic Millions, so we’ll take it from there. But I think it’s a bit much, asking him to run in the Magic Millions and then go to the Blue Diamond and after that the Golden Slipper.<\/span><\/div>\n
”You can’t do it all, so after the Gold Coast we’ll look at easing him, and with the Golden Slipper at Easter it gives you a little room to move.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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