If you're worried about the time between runs for Gingernuts in Sundays $250,000 Livamol Classic, dont include co-trainer Stephen Autridge in your team.
Four weeks means nothing to the Autridge/Richards Te Akau partnership. If Gingernuts is beaten it wont because hes not ready for a weight-for-age race of this calibre.
Did you see the way he quickened up in his gallop between races at Matamata on Saturday, said Autridge excitedly yesterday.
Opie [Bosson] couldnt believe it. Bosson barely had to move on Gingernuts to get him to put a space on stablemate and race rival Chance To Dance. That was not totally indicative because Chance To Dance is an older, lazier trackworker, but Bosson had plenty of horse left under him at the completion of the gallop. He could have gone significantly faster.
He came home in 35 and the racehorses on the day were coming home in 36s, says Autridge.