Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
Exciting three-year-old Cyclone Jordy warmed up for next Friday night’s $50,000 Caduceus Club Classic in wonderful fashion when he led his four rivals on a merry dance in a prelude of the race at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
He was the hot $1.10 favourite who began like a flash from the outside barrier and was not extended in bowling along at his leisure and winning by one and a half lengths from Control The Room ($31), with Scooter B ($5.50) a nose away in third place.
Cyclone Jordy sprinted over the final 400m in 27sec. and rated 1.57.4 to extend his winning sequence to nine which improved his record to 13 starts for eleven wins and one second placing and stakes of $249,965. He won at three at his five New Zealand starts and is unbeaten at his eight starts in WA.
“It is hard to work out how far he will go,” said reinsman Hall Jnr. “He is doing it so easily at the moment.”
Trainer Gary Hall Snr was even more effusive, saying: “He is a really good horse, who is foolproof and has point-to-point speed. There is no three-year-old here who can pressure him. He is a better driving horse than Mister Smartee, who takes time to wind up.”