Gold Coast based trainer Jay Bellamy will bring Five Star Vixen to the metropolitan meeting at Doomben on Saturday with the Headwater filly having earned her latest crack at city competition after racking up three successive wins on the Gold Coast Poly Track surface.
Bellamy doesn’t come to town often … his last visit was with Bowrider on May 18 and Bowrider was also Bellamy’s last city winner when he triumphed on March 20.
“Yeah, I try to put them in as good a race … as easy a race … as possible and I don’t bring them until they’ve run through their grades and earned the right to come to town,” explained Bellamy.
“I try not to go to town unless we’ve got no other option or if I obviously think they can win … and I think this one can win.”
While Five Star Vixen has excelled on the Gold Coast Poly Track with that three race win blitz in only six weeks, she does have form on the board in town, having contested five of her thirteen starts in the city for a second, third and fourth placing … with her most notable result there being a runner-up finish on debut behind Party For Two, who would go on to finish second in the Blue Diamond Prelude in her next start.
“After that second behind Party For Two, I spelled her,” explained Bellamy. “She hurt her back and it has just taken me so long to get her right again … but now I think I have got her spot on.
“I think she will be hard to beat on Saturday. Shame about the draw (barrier fifteen in the original draw), but we’ve tried to counter that by having a jockey (Dan McGillivray) with a 3kg claim.
“Dan will replace Jai Williams. Jai is my apprentice. He rides Five Star Vixen every morning. He has been on her in all of those last three wins, so, naturally, I would have loved to have him on, but that couldn’t be the case.
“They haven’t issued Jai’s town license yet, but he’s been suspended anyway, so that wouldn’t even have mattered for this run, so Dan goes on.”
Bellamy might only have a relatively low number of horses in work (twelve), but he has a high strike-rate with no less than twelve winners from his last fifty starters translating into a very impressive twenty-four percent winning strike-rate.
Five Star Vixen is currently a $15 to make it four wins-in-a-row with betting apps in Australia.