Reward For Effort Ready for Manikato Stakes

September 2, 2010 - by Lawrence · Filed Under Singapore Racing News

Reward For Effort Ready for Manikato Stakes

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The Peter Moody-trained Reward for Effort moved closer to his top Timeform 121 figure with an easy win at the 1100-metre, Group 3 Concorde Stakes as he tries to copy the trail of 2008 winner Typhoon Zed. The Concorde Stakes was Reward for Effort’s first race since he competed in the 1100-metre Listed John Monash Stakes at the Caulfield racecourse in July.

horse racing Peter Moody’s strategy is to avoid the wet tracks of Melbourne and his strategy paid off for the four-year-old Reward For Effort won the John Monash by two lengths. For his performance, Reward For Effort got a Timeform rating of 117 which is a bit higher than the five-year Concorde Stakes winner’s average of 116.

From the Concorde Stakes winners of the last five years, 2008 winner Typhoon Zed got the highest rating with 119. However, Reward For Effort’s 117 rating at the Concorde Stakes is four points lower than his best Timeform rating of 121 that he got after his defining victory at the 1200-metre, Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes last year.

After the Concorde Stakes, Reward For Effort will go to Melbourne to where he is gunning for a run at the Group 1 Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley on the 24^th of September. Analysis from Timeform suggests that the four-year-old race horse by Exceed and Excel can still improve further as he inches closer to his top Group 1 race target.

2010 Concorde Stakes race standardization analysis suggests that Reward For Effort has a race rating of 122. However, other measure techniques say that this is on the high side and they claim that the more appropriate rating for the race horse is 117.

The 122 rating is the race standardization rating that Typhoon Zed got during the 2008 Concorde Stakes wherein he also went on to win the Group 1 Manikato Stakes on his next start. However, Typhoon Zed was given the appropriate rating of 119.

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