Neil Evans
If confidence rules the saddle, Zac Lloyd is set for a big closing run to the 2025-26 season when he heads to Canterbury for Wednesday’s feature meeting.
Fresh from a successful visit to the UK for the Ascot carnival last month, Lloyd wasted no time in hitting the ground running after his return.
And it all hit overdrive just eight days ago when he collected four winners on well fancied runners at the Newcastle meeting before riding a double at Kembla two days later.
Then he added another double at Saturday’s Rosehill meeting aboard well backed duo Le Troisir in a BM 78 staying battle, and Roselyn’s Star in the July Sprint handicap over 1100m.
That left him with a very healthy 35 per cent winning strike rate from his last 23 rides, and seemingly more to come.
At Canterbury on a surface likely to improve into soft range, Lloyd partners up early with veteran Rosehill trainer David Payne aboard two talented sprinters.
Classy two-year-old Persian Wonder resumes in a maiden handicap over 1200m for the colts and geldings behind two eye-catching trials.
A smart son of group 1-winning French sire Hello Youmzain, Persian Wonder was placed in group 3 company early autumn before being well beaten in the group 1 Champagne Stakes over a mile.
Despite opening around $2.60 in early betting, he could be challenged at the head of the market by exciting three-year-old Argansort ($4.40) on debut for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott yard in blinkers off three progressive trials.
Then in the following race, Payne and Lloyd combine with talented juvenile filly Krasina fourth-up in a maiden handicap over 1200m.
A powerful-finishing daughter of Russian Revolution, Krasina was around $2.30 in early markets ahead of resuming Queen’s Gamble ($3.80) and Farfetched ($4.50), who is third-up.
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