Racing heads back to Ascot on Saturday with the running of the WA Sires Produce Stakes for the two year old's.
BUSTLING has come up the early favourite and it's easy to see why. He was simply dominant in the Karrakatta Plate, bolting in by 4.2 lengths and never giving his rivals a chance.
That performance has him rated alongside some handy 2YO's with Racing and Sports and the time wasn't far off what they ran in The Quokka only a race later.
He's just a good horse and it's hard to see anything turning the tables on him in this event.
The most likely to do so if things go against Bustling may be Golden Kathleen. When winning impressively on debut, she was able to sit close to the speed and put her rivals away with ease, but since then she's been taken back from bad barriers.
She now draws inside again with the winkers on first time and while it'll be a task to overrun Bustling, she may be able to be more competitive than she was when jumping the $5.50 second favourite.
While the Sires is not a betting race, I think we can make some cash early in the card with OLY'S CHOICE in Race 3.
The Dan & Ben Pearce-trained gelding ran home strongly to win by 1.8L over 1400m last start and steps out to the mile for the first time.
His ratings and sectional data suggest the rise in trip shouldn't be an issue and he should get every chance jumping from an inside barrier for William Pike.
Pike ride's Oly's Choice after partnering current second favourite Desennea just last week.
Desennea looked to have every chance there and with Pike deserting him to hop back aboard Oly's Choice, it's easy to lean the way of the five-year-old.
It looks like the market may have missed the last two runs of ANTIQUE MISS prior to a spell, as she lines up in the final event of the day.
Whilst she did win back-to-back races prior to the spell, the form guide reads DQ on both efforts after retuning a high reading of arsenic in her post-race samples.
She was very impressive in both efforts and looked to be working through the grades nicely prior to the spell, and she should be fitter for a nice trial at Lark Hill recently.
She has plenty of upside and the market might've missed her early doors due to those DQ's at the end of last campaign, but the ratings she ran there suggests she's up to this grade.
The Best From The West
Best Bet: Race 3 Number 5 OLY'S CHOICE @ $2.60*
Value: Race 9 NUmber 8 ANTIQUE MISS @ $9*
*Prices correct as of 3:30pm, May 2nd.
