Cardenas

CHAMPION jockey Dick Cardenas has three bankers on tomorrow's nine-race card, Wayne DaCosta's HOVER CRAFT and Anthony Nunes' pair of PRINCE ROHAN and SHE'S SPECTACULAR.

Well off Dane Nelson's 82 winners, Cardenas is on 58 but could still mount a challenge with a question sign hanging over the leading rider's head in DaCosta's barn.

Cardenas has been getting rides out of the champion trainer's barn, and it is rumoured that he could be the top man in that stable next year.

How else could Cardenas be aboard HOVER CRAFT, a half-brother to last year's Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes winner, ALL CORRECT, who debuts in tomorrow's 1100-metre third race?

HOVER CRAFT, by He'stherealthing out of Royal Pizzazz, has looked forward in the mornings at exercise. He doesn't appear to be a nippy sort but has clocked 23.4 for the last two furlongs of a mile workout. Facing five rivals, HOVER CRAFT debuts in blinkers, which he is not seen without at exercise. He looks set to get off the mark and could be one to keep an eye on ahead of the last three months of the year when the big two-year-old races come around.

easy seal

Cardenas should easily seal his double with Nunes' PRINCE ROHAN and SHE'S SPECTACULAR in the fourth and sixth races, respectively.

PRINCE ROHAN is down in class after finding overnight allowance sticky in his last 10 races. Too slow to keep pace and pounce on horses at that level, PRINCE ROHAN has been dropped in class on a $500,000 claim tag.

Though he was beaten 13 1/3 lengths by REASONABLE PRESS and CLASSY PROSPECT at a mile on July 11, he had completed the distance in 1:41.0, a fifth faster than GHOST RAPPER's winning time among $450,000 claimers on June 27.

With a slower pace than that carried by TECHNOMOTO, CLASSY PROSPECT and REASONABLE PRESS on last, PRINCE ROHAN is expected to be closer to the leaders and should prove stronger whenever he collars them in the stretch run.

To make matters worse, he drops class and comes in lightest in the eight-horse field with 52.0 kilos, go figure.

Cardenas should round off his three-timer with SHE'S SPECTACULAR who races out of Nunes' barn for the first time since moving from Philip Feanny.

A quick four-year-old filly, SHE'S SPECTACULAR is racing for the first time since February when she finished down the track behind HERMOSO AMIGO. She appears reprogrammed at exercise, twice clocking 59.3 from the gate and should go all the way over his favourite distance.