Racing: Mr Multiwin flying high for victory in Concorde

Vinny Colgan

Tim Carter gets more Concorde confident each time he combs through the form for Avondale's group two dash today.

Not because he thinks stable star Mr Multiwin is clearly superior to a stack of proven black-type performers - far from it.

It's more to do with the way the pattern of the race should pan out for a horse with one of the most punishing final 100m bursts of them all.

"If they get along a bit in front like it looks like they will, it's really going to suit him," said Carter, who is chasing his first group race success.

"He does like to get back a bit in his races but if it's run to suit I can see him getting home like Gee I Jane did when she won last year - he's a similar type to her."

After Mr Multiwin stamped himself as a future sprinting star with six wins from just eight starts in his last campaign, Carter brought him back this season with just two targets - the Concorde and the Railway Handicaps.

He resumed with a late-finishing fifth to Devoted, again a rival today, at Te Rapa on November 5, a run that Carter says has tuned him up perfectly.

"I don't want to say we weren't trying that day, because we were, but he was so far up in the weights that day, we just wanted to give him a nice run," said Carter. "With just one trial behind him I knew he wasn't really a serious chance."

Mr Multiwin followed that fresh-up run with a 1000m trials win at Cambridge on November 11.

Carter admits he was initially disappointed that the six-year-old could only beat the lower-grade performers by less than a length.

But after talking to Concorde rider Vinny Colgan he's going into today's first big test a lot more confident he has Mr Multiwin peaking at exactly the right time.

"Vinny said he didn't really handle the ground at Cambridge. He's got a dislike for ground shifting underneath him. And he switched off when he hit the front at the top of the straight. He's always raced best when he gets the front not too far from the line."

Atapi shapes as the other danger if the front-runners are throwing out the anchors inside the final 100m.

The Last Tycoon four-year-old has strengthened since a successful Queensland winter campaign and has the class for a lethal sprint while fresh.