UNBEATEN Newcastle colt Private Harry will have his final gallop at home on Tuesday morning before heading north for the biggest assignment of his brief career. 

 

Trainer Nathan Doyle’s exciting young sprinter is one of 12 three-year-olds to have gained a start in a new slot race, the $3m TAB Magic Millions Sunlight Stakes (1100m), at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

 

Private Harry is currently $6 third favorite behind Golden Slipper Stakes winner Lady Of Camelot ($2.40) and Magic Millions National 2YO Classic winner Arabian Summer ($5).

 

“Private Harry is as good as Nathan can get him,” Doyle’s racing manager David Dyson said this morning.

 

“He worked the colt last Friday morning with stablemate and last start Royal Randwick runner-up Dalaalaat, and will gallop him again on the grass on Tuesday morning.

 

“Then he will be floated to the Gold Coast on Wednesday night with stablemate Wooloowin, who will also race there on Saturday.

 

“Ash Morgan rode Private Harry in his gallop last Friday, and will be there again to work him on Tuesday morning.”

 

Morgan has been aboard the colt in all three wins; the first two at Newcastle (900m) on November 2 and Hawkesbury (1100m) on November 21 before a 3YO Benchmark 72 Handicap (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens on December 7.

 

The well-named four-year-old daughter of Capitalist is the third foal of the now deceased God’s Own mare Brook Road, who was trained for all but the first five of her 28-start career at Newcastle by Kris Lees, who won three races with her, including a Listed 1200m event against her own sex at Doomben in 2014, defeating Tinto, who earlier that year had won the Group 1 Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm.

Brook Road is the name of a street in the Brisbane suburb of Wooloowin, hence the mare’s name.

Wooloowin has won three of her six starts, including a first-up city victory over 1150m on the Kensington track in late October.

 

She was an $80,000 buy at the 2022 Magic Millions yearling sale at the Gold Coast, whereas Private Harry was an Inglis Classic yearling sale product last year and cost $115,000.

The Sunlight is an open slot race for all three-year-olds, and not restricted to Magic Millions sales graduates.

Whilst Doyle will have both Private Harry and Wooloowin lining up on the opening day of the MM carnival, he won’t have a runner in the $3m MM 2YO Classic (1200m) a week later.

He had hoped to earn sufficient prizemoney with debut Breeders’ Plate fourth placegetter Hidden Motive to secure a start, but the Capitalist youngster went shin sore after finishing second in an 800m trial for two-year-olds on the Beaumont track on December 4 and has been spelled.