Melbourne Cup: Puissance De Lune’s Preparations Underway
August 9th, 2013 by Pom de TurfPuissance De Lune is the six-year-old who has caught the eye in the early build-up to the Melbourne Cup, and the weekend after next sees him return to racing after bone fragments were removed from his knee. Trainer Darren Weir will of course have one eye on the Melbourne Cup in November, and the P.B. Lawrence Stakes – a 1400m race – on the 17th of this month will no doubt be a step in that direction.
Puissance De Lune is currently sitting favourite on Sportsbet at $7.00 before the first nominations for the Melbourne Cup, and Darren Weir is rightly pleased with his progress: ‘he had a good gallop last week over 800m at Ballarat, and he’s likely to have a jumpout again there on Friday week,’ the trainer says.
‘He’d done plenty of pace work leading into the gallop, and he stretched out nicely, winding up from the 800m mark.’
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