Let Her Rip
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A forecast for rain has Shaune Ritchie's confidence growing for Let Her Rip's tilt at Saturday's Listed Bendigo Guineas (1400m).
Scratched from last weekend's Gr.2 Kewney Stakes after she over-reached in training and took skin off a bumper, Let Her Rip goes into the Guineas off the back of a luckless ninth in the Gr.2 Angus Armanasco Stakes at Caulfield and with a luxury 54kg to carry.
"The Bendigo Guineas is a race that should suit her," Ritchie said.
"They are predicting thunderstorms and rain which would be good because her best form has come on a wet track.
"Probably her best run this season was on a wet track at Te Rapa back in October. Xtravagant was third in that race and Rangipo fourth, so that's just an indication of what she's capable of in that going."
Scratched from last weekend's Gr.2 Kewney Stakes after she over-reached in training and took skin off a bumper, Let Her Rip goes into the Guineas off the back of a luckless ninth in the Gr.2 Angus Armanasco Stakes at Caulfield and with a luxury 54kg to carry.
"The Bendigo Guineas is a race that should suit her," Ritchie said.
"They are predicting thunderstorms and rain which would be good because her best form has come on a wet track.
"Probably her best run this season was on a wet track at Te Rapa back in October. Xtravagant was third in that race and Rangipo fourth, so that's just an indication of what she's capable of in that going."