Bugle breaks through in Mornington Sires’

Daily Bugle (Image: Racing Photos)

Daily Bugle will follow the path blazed by Glenfiddich after Robbie Griffiths trained consecutive winners of the $125,000 Mornington Sires’ (1500m) on Saturday.

Glenfiddich won his first race at the seventh attempt in last year’s Mornington Sires’ and Daily Bugle also notched his first win in the two-year-old Mornington Cup Day feature.

Glenfiddich ended his first season of racing by contesting two Group 1s, finishing sixth in the ATC Sires’ Produce (1400m) and runner-up in the Champagne Stakes (1600m), before being transferred to Peter Moody ahead of his three-year-old season.

Mathew de Kock, who joined Griffiths as a training partner earlier this season, revealed Daily Bugle ($6) is being prepared for a similar Sydney trip after his 1.25-length win from the James Cummings-trained pair Alegron ($9) and Micro ($2 favourite).

“We’re lucky at Cranbourne, we have the facilities, we can keep horses like this ticking over,” de Kock said.

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De Kock added that the rescheduled Sydney Autumn Carnival following Saturday’s postponement of the Golden Slipper meeting is advantageous for the Press Statement colt.

“It gives us an extra week to analyse his recovery,” de Kock said.

“We were pretty despondent when we left Flemington Racecourse after his last start (11th in the VRC Sires’ Produce) but Robbie and myself never gave up our belief in the horse and you can see his ability today.”

Daily Bugle secured victory in the six-horse Mornington Sires’ after settling just off the pace and leaving his trailing position approaching the home turn.

“He’s always shown ability and from a few wide barriers they’ve always ridden him negative and it just hasn’t worked out on the day for him,” said winning jockey Jamie Mott.

“In the small field today, even though it was a muddling-run race, we were able to be right in striking distance.

“When they quickened the tempo at the 650-metre mark I was able to pop out three wide and I was pretty confident from there that I had Jye (McNeil, aboard Micro) covered and on form he was probably the only one to beat.”