Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy has ruled out any possibility of Toorak Toff running in the 2011 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley Racecourse on October 22, 2011.
Toorak Toff won his last start in the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes last Saturday in what was a remarkable comeback to racing after undergoing a throat operation early this year.
“He definitely won’t run in the Cox Plate,” Hore-Lacy said.
“He’s a sprinter miler.
“The best stallions are sprinter milers and I think this horse is going to be a wonderful stallion so the program will be the Toorak, the Waterford Crystal Mile and the Emirates Stakes, all two weeks apart.”
Toorak Toff’s latest win came as a sign of relief for owner and trainer Hore-Lacy, who has had well-documented money troubles.
“I’m always broke or trying to find the money,” he said.
“There was not enough forthcoming (from the stud). Somehow I hung on to him, I didn’t really want to sell him.
“I sold 10 per cent of him and that gave me enough money to pay the breeders whose yearlings I had purchased at the sales, so I’m fine.”
The four-year-old Show A Heart entire is currently recovering from last weekend’s track, which was rated a Good 2.
“Toorak Toff slightly jarred but he will be all right in a few days,” Hore-Lacy said.
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