Bourne targets valley return for Zamorar

Mon 30 Jan

Seymour based trainer David Bourne has earmarked a return for promising three year old Zamorar over 1000 metres next Friday night at Moonee Valley. While the lightly raced son of Scandal Keeper has only had the four career starts to date, he has shown enormous potential and finished his first preparation with an impressive fourth place beaten under two lengths behind Sepoy in the G1 Coolmore Stakes on Derby Day. "He did rise quickly and that put a fair bit of pressure on me to keep stepping him up last preparation" Bourne said. "That said, he did run very well in that race (the Coolmore) so I guess he's proved he can measure up at the top level". "Friday week will be his start point and we'll just decide after that where we head with him". Though Bourne has put in a nomination for March's $1M Newmarket Handicap, he stressed the point that no race outside of Zamorar's first up run has been locked in. "He had a nice month off following his run in the Coolmore".
"He had a jump out last week, he's right to go but we'll just head to the Valley next week and take it from there. Nothing has been locked in".