“So they put the price up on that run, but if they had looked at it, it was one of those ones you put a line through.” After winning a Fillies & Mares Benchmark 70 last start, Aminatu drops back to Benchmark 64 grade this week, but will need to shoulder more weight and tackle the boys. She has been assigned 61kg in Heat 7 of the Ladbrokes 55 Second Challenge over 955 metres, and 3kg claimer Sheridan Clarke will again partner her, bringing the weight back down to 58kg. Rogers said the ominous weather on Wednesday wouldn’t dent his mare’s chances, but concedes a soft track will stop her from running time and troubling the scoreboard in the hunt for $55,000. “I’ve gone for the claim again with Sheridan, which will bring her in nicely at the weights. “The only thing that is annoying me a bit is the wet weather around. It just makes it hard to run the quick times that you have to, to try and get the bonus.” Rogers has already had great success at The Valley. In 2019 he took unlikely hero Mystyko from picnic level sprinter all the way through the grades in town and ultimately won the Listed Abell Stakes. That is the same race he plans to target with Aminatu this Autumn, now a six-year-old mare who seems to be getting better with age.
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