By Glenn Davis
Trainer Robert Heathcote will begin a nationwide jockey search for next month’s Stradbroke Handicap if Queensland filly Abounding books a golden ticket into the $3 million Group 1 feature at Eagle Farm next month.
Abounding, winner of the Magic Millions Guineas at the Gold Coast in January, was allotted only 49.5kgs when weights were released this week for the Stradbroke Handicap on June 15.
However, the winner of the Group 3 Fred Best Classic at Eagle Farm on Saturday, in which Abounding has drawn barrier three, is guaranteed a start in Queensland’s premier sprint.
Heathcote has a two-week European holiday planned in a fortnight and will miss the Stradbroke in which he also hopes to start Prince Of Boom.