Gypsy’s road to ‘The 715’ riches

Editor BOAY

With four Group 1 victories on her resume, Victorian distance diva Gypsy Wyong has earned a reputation for saving her best for the biggest stages.

‘Team Dailly’ is hoping that will again prove to be the case at The Gardens in Newcastle on Saturday night when Gypsy Wyong attempts to add the inaugural running of ‘The Ladbrokes 715’, the world’s richest staying event, to her resume.

Three Victorians are chasing the $500,000 winner’s purse, with Gypsy Wyong joined by kennelmate Drako Bale and Mark Delbridge’s dual G1 winner Jarick Bale.

Click HERE  for TAB’s latest ‘The 715’ market

Having banked $479,845 in prizemoney, victory will see Gypsy Wyong, a daughter of Westmead Hawk and Dyna Gypsy, bred and raced by the Daillys, knocking on the door of the exclusive million dollar club.

“Some of the prizemoney in NSW is unbelievable,” said co-trainer Tom Dailly.

“The Gardens seems to be a leader’s track; if you get on the rail and onto the lure, you’ll be hard to run down.

“But neither of our two is drawn to do that, so we’ll have to see what happens.”

WATCH: DRAKO BALE (7) was a commanding all-the-way winner of his heat of ‘The 715’, clocking 41.86sec at his first look at The Gardens.

The three Victorian finalists all won their heats last Saturday, with Jarick Bale clocking 41.84sec, Drako Bale 41.86sec and Gypsy Wyong 42.10sec.

Jarick Bale (Box 3) is the shortest of the trio in TAB’s market at $4.80, with Gypsy Wyong (Box 7) $9.50, while despite a runaway all-the-way heat victory on debut at The Gardens, Drako Bale (Box 6), a son of the great Fanta Bale, is a $41 roughie.

Tom Dailly was surprised with the disparity in his contenders’ prices.

“I think they’re going as well as each other,” Dailly said.


“It will come down to what sort of run they get and what luck in running they get.

“Gypsy Wyong had a run at The Gardens the week before the heats and had no luck at all. A dog we used to train, Cool Bourbksi, got in her way everywhere she went.

“She had a bit of luck in her heat, but she’s had a couple of looks there now and when she gets in these big races she usually goes pretty well.

“Drako Bale had never seen the place before the heats, but he went good at Sandown, so we decided to send him up too. He jumped straight to the front and ran 41.80 odd. If he can do what he did last week he’d have to be a chance.”

Related posts