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Hobartville Stakes likely starting off point for dual Group 1 winner

The Hobartville Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) at Rosehill on Saturday week is the likely target for the dual Group 1 winner King’s Legacy (Redoute’s Choice), with co-trainers Peter and Paul Snowden hoping they can get the son of Redoute’s Choice’s (Danehill) career back on track. 

King’s Legacy landed the Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) and Champagne Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) as a juvenile, prompting Coolmore to buy into the James Harron-raced colt, but the colt has failed to fire in his four starts as a three-year-old and was last seen finishing 12th of 16 runners in the Cantala Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Flemington in October. 

"He's going very well, I'll be gobsmacked if he doesn't get back to his old form on what we've seen,'' Peter Snowden said.

"He seems very much switched on. Colts can do that, I've seen it before."

Snowden said that all-being well after the Hobartville, the colt will be set for the Randwick Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) two weeks’ later. 

"I remember Octagonal had a flat prep in the spring and when he came back in the autumn he went straight back to winning races,'' Snowden said.

"I don't say he's Octagonal but colts can do that. He went down to Melbourne in good form, his two runs prior to the Guineas were perfect runs, but he just went terrible."