The wetter the better for Just Folk in Hawkesbury Cup target

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Cranbourne trainer Gavin Bedggood has aimed Just Folk astatine the Hawkesbury Cup and looks apt to get the brushed conditions the seven-year-old revels successful connected Saturday.

It is conscionable implicit six months since Bedggood gambled $199,000 connected Just Folk, and helium has already returned adjacent to $300,000 aft helium won the Eclipse Stakes successful the spring.

Just Folk charges location to triumph the Eclipse Stakes astatine Caulfield successful December.

Just Folk is portion of an emerging squad for Bedggood, who has much than 40 horses successful enactment and is starting to marque his sanction arsenic a trainer with results specified arsenic Mornington Glory’s 3rd successful the Oakleigh Plate.

“We person had a spot of luck connected the tried equine market, and Just Folk was 1 that I could spot inactive had a spot of racing near successful him, adjacent though helium had won a Crystal Mile and Ajax Stakes,” Bedggood said. “He enjoys brushed crushed and had not been overraced, and helium hasn’t tally a atrocious contention for america since we got him.

“The grooming started arsenic a spot of a hobby but we person a large squad now, and horses similar Just Folk and Mornington Glory are getting our sanction retired there.”

Just Folk won the Ajax Stakes connected a dense way earlier joining Bedggood and added the Eclipse successful his archetypal mentation for the caller unchangeable on with placings successful the Cranbourne Cup and Ballarat Cup.

“He had travel to the extremity of it successful the Ballarat Cup, but helium was truly pugnacious astatine the end, adjacent though helium astir apt didn’t tally the 2000m out,” Bedggood said. “After the outpouring we targeted this contention connected the mode to Brisbane, and we would backmost him up successful the Hollindale Cup adjacent week if he’s going well.

“He is coming disconnected the champion dry-track tally of his career, and, if helium gets the brushed way helium likes, he’s going tally truly well.”

Just Folk’s grounds makes it wide that bedewed tracks are wherever helium thrives. Twenty runs connected brushed oregon dense tracks person netted six wins and 7 placings, but helium has lone won erstwhile successful 19 attempts connected a bully track.

It makes his brave 3rd down El Soleado successful the Golden Mile astatine Bendigo basal out, and Bedggood was speedy to publication Nash Rawiller for his frontrunner astatine Hawkesbury.

“I wanted to get the champion rider imaginable for him, truthful I was consecutive connected to Nash aft Bendigo, and it was bully we could get him due to the fact that helium is beardown and it’s what this bloke needs,” Bedggood said.

“We cognize that helium is amended with the chopped successful the ground, and it’s wherefore we are heading into the wintertime with him.

“He rapidly got backmost what we paid for him, truthful everything helium does from present is profit, and I deliberation this contention comes for him astatine the close time.

“He ran 4th successful this contention past twelvemonth and didn’t person the clearest of runs successful the straight, truthful we cognize helium handles the track, which is simply a bonus.”

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