Highways Back On The Radar For Joe Ible

Up-and-coming Canberra trainer Joe Ible is switching plans for a couple of his better gallopers following Canberra’s reinstatement to country status, enabling its horses to again compete in Highway Handicaps.

Ible described yesterday’s announcement by Racing NSW as “fantasitic” and said it would revitalise local stables after a drop-off in owner enquiries and the quality of horses being presented for training.

“Thoroughbred Park is a great place to prepare horses and a thriving training-centre in Canberra benefits not only racing locally, but in the region as well.”  

Ible’s Sebring mare Seeblume was strongly supported early to win yesterday at Goulburn prior to the meeting being abandoned.

Ible says she will now have a brief freshen and she’ll likely be seen next in a Highway.

“She came to us with a few niggles that have to be managed, but I have a good opinion of her and believe she can make it to town.”

Ible has always had an opinion of Manzana who won three races on-end in the summer including a ‘Federal’ in Canberra.

Manzana has been in pre training for three weeks and Ible says he will be targeted at a Highway in the late spring or summer and then go on for the sprint series at the South Coast.

Ible’s Pins mare Bella Amante has won two races this campaign both at Kembla and is being freshened following her most recent run at Randwick with a Highway also beckoning.