Stradbroke the target for Waller’s mare

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HISTORY will be against Red Tracer when she tries to win the Stradbroke Handicap after nearly a two-month lay-off.

It will be exactly seven weeks between runs when Red Tracer lines up at Eagle Farm for the $1 million Brisbane winter showpiece.

Trainer Chris Waller watched Red Tracer win a Rosehill trial yesterday and nominated Saturday week's Stradbroke as her target, provided the track was ''dead to heavy''. Red Tracer was last spotted finishing behind Diamond Drille in a three-way finish in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes during The Championships.

In the past 30 years, only Crawl went longer between runs when he won the 2001 Stradbroke — he finished fourth in the Doncaster, then tuned up with a Hawkesbury trial. The 1988 winner, Campaign King, had a six-week let-up.

Waller and jockey Nash Rawiller were hardly daunted by the time away from the track for Red Tracer, who remains an $11 Stradbroke chance with TAB Fixed Odds.

Rawiller said the freshen-up had worked wonders for the mare, who wasn't her usual brilliant self after she received a bad check not long after the start in the Canterbury Stakes.

"She seems in a really good frame of mind again,'' said Ra­willer, who piloted Red Tracer to an easy trial win over 1030m.

"The whole time I've been riding her, she's always been one of the most competitive mares you'd ride, but she didn't quite seem herself for a couple of runs in the autumn.

"Whether that had something to do with a bad check in (the Canterbury Stakes), I'm not sure. Judging by the past two trials, I think she's back from the brink.

"She's in quite well at the weights (with 56kg in the Stradbroke), she's still got that residual fitness, so the 1400m will be no problem for her.''

Waller said Red Tracer would only ditch the Stradbroke if Eagle Farm was likely to be a dry track.

If that was the case, Red Tracer would unfortunately clash with stablemate Catkins in the Dane Ripper Stakes on the same day, the feature she won last year.

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