150 Not Out For Four Legged Frenzy
23 March, 2018
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Tough mare Four Legged Frenzy will have her 150th race start when she lines up in the $10,000 Collie Cup (2700m) on Sunday afternoon, and looks set to figure prominently if her recent form is anything to go by.
The durable eight-year-old is now under the care of Matthew Saw, the third trainer of her career, and is having her 24th start this season.
Four Legged Frenzy has recorded 16 wins from 149 starts, and has been placed on 45 occasions.
Saw said he felt the mare was racing in close to career best form.
“She’s a tough little girl,” he said.
“We thought she’d be ready for a spell by now, but her last run was one of the best runs she has put in this campaign.
“She is a pleasure to have around.
“We don’t do a great deal with her, we just keep her down the beach and do a bit of swimming.”
Saw took over training duties of the mare at the start of the season, where she has won two of her 23 starts, and has started at Albany, Bunbury, Kalgoorlie, Narrogin and Pinjarra across the six months of the season so far.
Saw, who is in the process of moving up from Albany to Pinjarra, also has Beaus Mystery engaged in the Collie Cup.
Despite mixing his form of late, the gelding improved significantly last start to finish second over 2258m at Albany.
Saw only took over training duties of Beaus Mystery in November, and he said the pacer had plenty of quirks he had to address.
“He’s a special horse,” Saw said.
“You don’t know what he is going to do.
“I changed the gear on him last start, and that seemed to perk him up and get him going again.
“We will have to keep changing things here and there.”
The Collie Cup will also mark the first time Four Legged Frenzy and Beaus Mystery have competed in a standing start event, and Saw admits he isn’t sure what to expect.
“We are going in blind this week,” he said.
“We have never actually had them in a stand before, so we will have to leave things as they are and hope they are on their best behaviour.”
Remarkably, Four Legged Frenzy has had the second most number of race starts of all the runners in the Collie Cup field.
Matthew Scott’s Telham Lane will face the starter for the 248th time on Sunday afternoon, while the least experienced runner in the field is another one of Scott’s Abetta Tiny Dancer, who has had 66 starts.
Tim Walker