The freshly minted training partnership of John O’Shea and Tom Charlton will saddle up its first stakes runner with Hawkesbury Guineas hero Schwarz resuming in the Group 2 Missile Stakes at Randwick this Saturday.
Having missed his juvenile season due to injury, Schwarz spent much of his three-year-old year playing catch up to his peers, but this time around the team is banking on residual fitness from a winter run in Queensland to set him in good stead at Randwick.
“I like horses coming out of that Queensland winter; they do have good residual fitness, and they’re effective early in the spring,” O’Shea said.
“He’s in as good a form as we’ve had him, and we can’t fault him.
With JMac aboard and eyes on the bigger prizes later in the season, including the Group 1 Memsie and the Manikato, we expect the team will be firing on all cylinders for a missile assault.
