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Two sons of Bianconi should be fighting out the finish of today's Jayco Handicap (race 3) at Bendigo.
It looks a good race with a few promising horses engaged but the progeny of Bianconi in White Universe and Rainburst look hard to beat.
And it's no surprise that one of that pair is from the yard of leading trainer Peter Moody, who this weekend may reach his 100th metropolitan winner for the Melbourne season.
But at Bendigo today he saddles up a promising type in White Universe, who drops in grade for this RB68 over 1400m.
The gelding, a son of Bianconi, was well held on debut before a spell then returned with a strong on-pace second over 1300m on the synthetic track at Geelong.
He then raced in a maiden over 1300m at Betfair Park Hillside where he drew the inside and settled third with a good run, before working home strongly to score.
White Universe then went from a maiden to a mile in town, but he struggled in the slow ground and faded to finish sixth before a spell.
Resuming on the synthetic at Geelong again, he had a big weight and wide gate and after settling well back hit the line well to finish seventh.
He then returned to town over 1400m on heavy ground at Betfair Park Hillside.
Settling sixth in the small field, he turned there but ran on well when a head second behind Mannopoly.
That was in an RB78 and drops to an RB68 today.
The trip suits, the conditions suits and he is fitter again.
From his wide gate he might push forward today as he has shown he can do and on his close-up effort in town last time looks hard to beat here.
Mark Kavanagh's Rainburst is a maiden but on what he showed last time it shouldn't be long before his turn comes.
The gelding, another son of Bianconi, made his debut over 1200m at Geelong where he got back but wound up late then went for another spell.
He resumed over an unsuitable 1000m on the Geelong synthetic where he again was beaten for early speed but hit the line nicely to finish fourth.
The extra ground suits now and he will be much fitter for the effort.
He should be warming up late again today.
The Peter Morgan-trained Seriously Good ran an improved race last time and can feature again.
Four starts back he won an open three-year-old race at Caulfield over this journey before running in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas but unfortunately he was injured and went for a lengthy spell.
He waqs well held up the straight at Flemington fresh but dropped well back in grade last time and ran fourth at Echuca.
He should be further improved for this and on his city form looks a leading chance if he can get back to near it.
Agitato placed in slightly easier class last time but with the lighter weight today and the extra run under his belt should go well again this time.
