GROUP one winning-trainer Daniel Bowman is contemplating a start for Blenheim Palace in the $225,000 Warrnambool Cup on May 6 but it'll depend on how the imported galloper runs in a $150,000 open handicap at Caulfield on Saturday.
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Blenheim Palace ran fifth at Caulfield last month when having his first start for Bowman. He believes the five-year-old has improved on the back of that performance.
"I'm very happy with how Blenheim Palace is going," he said. "The horse has trained on well since that run. He's had three sharp track gallops since that Caulfield run just to keep him ticking over.
"I would love to think he'll be our Warrnambool Cup runner but we'll have a clearer idea as to what his future runs maybe after he runs on Saturday."
Top jockey Mark Zahra retains the ride on Saturday.
Fellow Warrnambool trainers Patrick Ryan and Lindsey Smith have runners at Caulfield. Ryan accepted with Wanalirri in the group two Armanasco Stakes.
Smith saddles up reigning Warrnambool and Terang Cup winner Too Close The Sun in the $600,000 group one Futurity Stakes and Riding The Wave is his Oakleigh Plate representative.
Ciaron Maher has runners in the three group one races on the nine-event program. Maher saddles up Amish Boy in the Futurity, Enthaar in the Blue Diamond and Anders and How Womantic in the Oakleigh Plate.
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