Goulburn trainers will reel off a race day brace of contenders in this Sunday’s edition of the Evergreen Turf SERA Country Championships Qualifier race at Nowra.
Trainers like Danielle Seib, Tash Burleigh, Matthew Dale and Danny Williams are no strangers to peaking a horse for a big occasion and all have a genuine look at using Sunday as a pick lock opportunity for the $1m Evergreen Turf Country Championships Final on Day 1 of The Championships at Royal Randwick.
Seib qualified Associate for last year’s Country Championships Final via a Southern Wildcard win. This year she has the exciting Cable Express primed for Sunday’s $150 000 contest. The trainer having no problem finding a turn of phrase to match his turn of foot.
“He’s an ultra-consistent gelding who has only been out of the top four once in his nine-start career,” Seib referenced.
“He’s a tough on pace galloper who has a Randwick win on his CV and looks to be on an upward trajectory.”
Cable Express is currently a $15 quote for the Country Championships Final and Seib says his early potential has helped make it an easy path to plot towards Sunday’s mission and hopefully beyond.
“He won on debut a little over twelve months ago and the 2025 Country Championships have been a target ever since.”
Cable Express has that winning feeling going, delivering on his home track first up in a Class 4 Country Championships Preview race and looking all business in a tick over trial win since. The gelding was also runner-up in the MTC Guineas at Wagga last year which has proven to be a solid form reference in recent years and has been in Seib’s care from day dot.
“Cable Express was bred by his current part owner Charlie Cropper and the horse has been with us at Seib racing since being broken in.”
The horse has built an above average race record to date of 9:4-2-1 and has won two from two at Sunday’s race distance of 1400m.
Tash Burleigh has bonnie mare Mosgold chasing first up fanfare in Sunday’s SERA Country Championships Qualifier. Burleigh’s winning form circa 2024 has easily transitioned into 2025 with three wins from her past eight runners, Burleigh recently offering:
“We’ve had a lovely run lately, with only a small team of horses, we are pretty happy with that!”
The quiet achiever has Mosgold primed and ready to go first-up after a solid on pace trial recently. The consistent mare is a proven early campaign type and the Nowra circuit has been a productive one for the galloper, having placed in all three previous runs at the venue.
Danny Williams, who trained the quinella in last year’s SERA qualifying race remains bullish about his Country Championships arsenal despite losing Highway Strip to injury recently. The renowned Goulburn trainer has an upside grey leading the way in Kreon.
“Kreon is now my leading hope along with Exit Fee who has gone from 50-1 to 15-1 after his recent Saturday Highway Handicap run.”
If Kreon misses a start on Sunday’s Williams will take the galloper’s Country Championships quest via Rosehill on Saturday, the trainer sure he has continued to improve after fast tracking his way into last year’s The Kosciuszko.
“He ran at his sixth start in The Kosciuszko with no luck and is lightly raced and boasts high potential as one of our best horses in training. He would relish the 1400 with a light weight,” Williams offered.
No Drama and Super Norwest (Matthew Dale), Ticklebelly (Scott Collings) and Sass ‘N’ Cheek (Pat Murphy) are all Goulburn trained horses with the ratings and ‘best form is good enough’ credentials to also offer stiff resistance in Sunday’s $150 000 Evergreen Turf SERA Country Championships Qualifier race at Nowra.
