Trainer eyes the perfect winning double to end year

Goulburn trainer Matthew Dale hopes to complete the year-end double at Orange by sending two gallops to the national meeting on Tuesday.

Dale has two lightweights heading into the meeting, starting with Bombay Boom in the Orange Motor Group Class 3 Benchmark 66 Handicap (1000m).

A veteran with just five starts, Bombay Boom competed in city-level races in his first three races and failed to place in any of them.

The three-year-old son of Spirit Of Boom broke from his spell at Albury last month and raced straight to the front to take an easy win as the favourite. Nick Heywood was in the saddle for this event and the jockey remained alongside the galloper when he finished second to Margin Call at Canberra on 12 December.

Pierre Boudvillain takes over riding Bombay Boom at Orange and the jockey has also been booked to ride the Dale-trained Group Chat in the Parkview Hotel Orange Country Boosted Class 1 Handicap (1280m).

Group Chat is also slightly competitive with three starters. Rubick’s and Stacey Lee’s five-year-old mare is a half-sister to the recently retired Front Page; He is a player who has earned more than $3.6 million in his career, with two wins and one placement in The Kosciuszko and two places in Group 1 The Galaxy.

Huddle debuted fifth at Albury in March and then quickly picked up his first win at Wagga. He was wowed after the fifth round at Wagga on May 1.

Warwick Farm trainer Bjorn Baker has two runners who will take part in competition events in Orange; first starter Lego Master will start in the Inland Digital Maiden Plate (1400m) alongside Mathew Cahill.

Baker’s other runner is Cuesta, who competes for jockey Winona Costin in Buckley’s Carpet Court Class 1 and Maiden Plate (1600 m).