In-Form Allergic Has Winning Reaction

The search is on for a Stakes race for Allergic who made it two wins in eight days with a superior effort in the Benchmark 93 Handicap at Randwick, Australia on Saturday, February 6.

As she had done a week earlier, Allergic settled in the second half of the field, rounded up his rivals early in the home straight and scored convincingly.

A G1 South Australian Derby place-getter last May, Allergic had been a permanent
member of Godolphin's Melbourne stable from which she had won three races.

But trainer John O'Shea brought him to Sydney last month in a bid to find a soft track.

"I think he just likes to get his toe into the ground, and to be fair, it was a brilliant ride today by James McDonald," O'Shea said.

"He is definitely up to listed or Group Three company."

Allergic's Derby placing was behind the outstanding Delicacy, who went on to win this year's Perth Cup, and Werther, who is now a G1 performer in Hong Kong.

"Both the horses who beat him in the Derby have trained on to be very good horses so he looks to be up to Listed or Group Three company at a mile to a mile and a quarter," O'Shea said.

"There is a listed race here in a fortnight that we will bring him here for while he has his tail in the air," he said.

McDonald said Allergic had come to the races in the same order as the previous week.

"The team have done a good job. They said he was fresh and ready to go and he indicated that when I cantered him to the start, he was very fresh," said McDonald.

"He was always going to win when they went that tempo."

A gelded son of Street Cry, Allergic's immediate target is likely to be the Listed Randwick City Stakes at Randwick on March 6.

On a day when the handy performer Shards turned in the team's best Stakes effort finishing fourth in the G3 Eskimo Prince Stakes, a modest maiden winner gave Godolphin's Australian operation a notable success.

Tremor, who was having her second start, is a half-sister to Darley's 2014 G1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Earthquake, who was also second in the G1 Golden Slipper.

The daughter of Commands won with something in hand in the race at Newcastle, New South Wales.