Racing: Typhoon Tracy to start spring campaign next month

Jockey Luke Nolen riding Typhoon Tracy. Photo / Getty Images

Horse of the Year elect Typhoon Tracy will take a different path through the early spring to her 2009 campaign.

Typhoon Tracy, who has won 10 of her 14 starts including five group one races, will resume in the Memsie Stakes (1400m) on her home track at Caulfield on August 28. "She's going to have a slightly different programme this year because I gave her a couple of extra weeks to get her over that virus in Sydney," Caulfield trainer Peter Moody said.

Typhoon Tracy had won four successive group one races before finishing 14th as favourite to Rangirangdoo in the Doncaster Mile at Randwick on April 17.

The mare was galloped on in the Doncaster but apart from that Moody felt she wasn't at her top because of a virus.

"Last year, I ran her in the Liston and went three weeks into the Makybe Diva Stakes," Moody said.

"This year, she'll resume in the Memsie and go two weeks into the Dato Tan Chin Nam and then I'll play it by ear from there."

Typhoon Tracy ran third to Predatory Pricer in last year's Liston before being beaten a nose when runner-up to Vigor in the Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.

She then ran eighth to Heart Of Dreams in the Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield before starting a run of five straight victories in the Tristarc Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

Typhoon Tracy then won the Myer Classic (1600m) at Flemington before being spelled.

She returned in the autumn to claim the C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m) and Futurity Stakes (1600m) at Caulfield as well as the Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill.

- AAP