Parker to use Hawkesbury meeting to learn more about Flying Bandit

“If he qualified then he qualified. You get a $150,000 race on your doorstep, and he got into it well at the weights. If he did qualify then three weeks into the final was perfect.”

Jay Ford, who rode Flying Bandit to his Randwick win, is on board at Hawkesbury and Parker said he can only hope the race is run genuinely as an inside gate doesn’t suit.

“He’s raced well at Hawkesbury, he’s won there over the 2000m,” he said.

“All in all he’s heading down the right line. You need that luck with him because he always gets back in his races, barrier two I don’t know if it’s ideal, he’s not blessed with a lot of gate speed.”

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