Riot And Rose (NZ) (Pins) gets the chance to add another regional feature to his summer body of work at Geelong this Saturday.
The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained gelding is one of the leading contenders for the day’s feature, the A$300,000 Coastal Classic (1700m).
The son of Pins won the A$100,000 Wodonga Cup (1590m) on November 30 and A$150,000 Werribee Cup (1600m) on December 8 before a sixth placing in the Listed Lord Stakes (1600m) at the Caulfield meeting run on the Heath track on Boxing Day.
Riot And Rose was noted by Racing Victoria vets to be lame coming out of that A$175,000 event, but Coleman said he had bounced back from that quickly and that performance was not a true indication of the way the horse is going.
“I think you put a complete line through that, he had excuses that day way the race played out,” she said.
“Asking him to come around the field and make up that much ground around the Caulfield Heath was sort of mission impossible.
“But he seems like he’s come through it well.”
Although seven years old, Riot And Rose has faced the starter just 16 times, seven of which have been victories.
Linda Meech, who has been aboard for the past three runs, retains the ride at Geelong, where Riot And Rose is $4 second favourite in a market headed by last year’s winner Holymanz (NZ) (Almanzor) at $3.
