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After four educational runs, trainer Gary Portelli says the timing’s right for Miss Hades to face her stiffest test at Rosehill on Wednesday.
It has been a deliberate move from Portelli to keep the bar low for the filly in the initial stages of her career but after two wins and two placings from her four starts she’s done enough to earn a metro test in the Ghaiyyath First Yearlings Handicap (1500m).
Trainer Gary Portelli.Credit: Getty
Miss Hades kicked off her career with a Nowra placing before breaking through at Cootamundra, she then backed it up at Orange and stepped to provincial level with a gallant Kembla Grange placing a few weeks ago.
“She’s a nice filly, I’m a bit excited about her chances,” Portelli said.
“She was allowed to go through a lower platform we designed because we thought she was fairly green and didn’t know a real lot, so we went for a couple of bush races.
“I think she’s done the preliminary stuff you need to teach a young horse and see if she’s up to having a crack in town.”
Jason Collett replaces apprentice Julia Presits, who Portelli says has done a great job on the three-year-old, for her city debut.
She hit the front a bit soon at Kembla Grange on October 28, though Portelli felt the issue was more where on the track she found the lead as the pattern had the winners coming wide on the course.
“We probably ended up in the wrong part of the track at Kembla Grange and went down fighting,” he said.
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