Queen Lauryn

[Dougie]

Queen Lauryn, What super run again tonight. She Missed the kick and still won in time of 29.97 at Albion Park. All roads lead to next months Group 2 Ladies Bracelet at Wentworth Park.

[Dougie]

QUEEN HEADS TO WENTY
Compliments GRAQ website

THE Queen Lauryn show heads to Wentworth Park on Saturday night as a lead-up to the bitch's Group 2 Ladies Bracelet campaign.

Queen Lauryn, beaten just once in her career, has drawn box seven in a 4th Grade (520m). Owner Steve Hawkins reports the Token Prince-Cheeky Sprite bitch has done well since her brilliant Albion Park win last Thursday night. "I think that was one of her best wins," said Hawkins. "To overcome her early trouble and still break 30 seconds ... it was a huge effort."

Hawkins said he was happy his bitch had drawn wide for Saturday night's run. "I think she is suited out there. She ran 30.22 when running down Tricode Flojo in the semi-final of the Vic Peters last year and came from the eight box then," he said.

Hawkins describes the Group 1 Vic Peters as "the race that got away". Queen Lauryn had to be scratched from the final when she came on season in the week leading up to the final.

The Group 2 Ladies Bracelet heats will be run at Wentworth Park on Saturday week.

[Dougie]

Super Run Tonight going to be very hard to beat in the Ladies Bracelet coming up early next month. Her Time tonight was 29.51,5.44,13.89 and superb run home time 15.62 Equalling Paua to Burn's Track Record

[Dougie]

She should win Heat 1 of tonights Ladies Bracelet at Wentworth Park.

[Dougie]

Courtesy GRAQ website


QUEEN Lauryn, coming off a track record public trial over 431m at Ipswich on Thursday morning, will head to Sandown next Thursday night for a trial. She ran 24.68 in the public trial which is easily inside Reliability’s track record.

Trainer Tony Brett said the plans to give the Token Prince-Cheeky Sprite bitch a look at Sandown was for the major races coming up there later in the year. “All the big races including the Topgun and Sapphire Classic, are at Sandown this year and I’d like to give her a look at the track well in advance of that,” said Brett. He will then take her back to run her in a race on Thursday week, the night of the Group 1 Laurels final. “Steve (Hawkins, her owner) sponsors the Laurels and it will be great to have her racing on that night,” said Brett.

Brett gave Queen Lauryn, who four runs back smashed the Wentworth Park 520m track record, a spell after being second to Miss Hot Gossip in two FFA runs at Albion Park recently. “She had a good week off and it has done her the world of good,” he said.

“She will come back from Sandown to run in the heats of the Winter Carnival Cup at Albion Park. “After those runs behind Miss Hot Gossip, I just wanted to take her away from Albion Park for a while.”

Hawkins' commitments in coming weeks have forced him to miss a trip to the Darwin Cup. He recently bought Deep Prince, a winner at Albion Park last Thursday night for him, and gave the dog to Tom Tzouvelis to train. "The reason he bought the dog was so he could have a week in Darwin with his mates and see his dog race in the Cup series," said Tzouvelis. "He'd just about made all the bookings, and organised all his mates, but now can't go at all because of work commitments."

[Dougie]

Queen Lauryn trialled at Sandown over the 515 metres from Box 2 (28.8kgs) and recorded the following sectional times: 5.20, 19.10, 29.84.