It’s fitting that Price’s second Manikato Stakes winner Charm Stone is the horse he will try and win his first Group 1 Ladbrokes William Reid Stakes with. Charm Stone may have surprised punters with her 30/1 first-up romp in the Ladbrokes Manikato Stakes in September, but Price is using a similar formula to strike while the mare is fresh to grab the $1 million prize on Saturday. For a daughter of I Am Invincible who cost $1.55 million as a yearling, the five-year-old is looking to build on now $2.5 million in racetrack earnings from just 14 starts and an eye-watering broodmare value. He describes the mare as a lover of routine, a massive eater and a horse who likes being left alone on her carboard shavings, due to allergies. “We’ve kept her back to 1200 metres which has worked winning the Group 1 in Adelaide and at Moonee Valley,” Price explained. “She’s a Group 1 mare so she has to go the Group 1 races. “The price tag can’t dictate how you train them. “She has got type, pedigree by a proven stallion, a good family off a good farm, and if you want them, you have to go into the bidding war. “In her case, gee I hate to think what she’s worth now on type, race performance and pedigree – she’s superb.” While Price says to win on Saturday in the $1 million Group 1 Ladbrokes William Reid Stakes with Charm Stone would be ‘sensational’, there’s one race he can’t help but keep chasing. A race both Pompeii Ruler and I’m Thunderstruck almost delivered for him. “I don’t go back and watch replays or keep trophies I just say one day I’ll win a Cox Plate,” he professed.
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