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Mitchell Beer is confident The Kosciuszko (1200m) runner-up Redouble (Redoute’s Choice) will be a big player in Saturday’s $1m The Hunter (1300m) at Newcastle.
Beer will be making the 700 kilometre journey from Albury to Newcastle but believes the journey will be worthwhile, with his seven-year-old gelding Redouble off 55.5 kilograms.
"We had him nice and fit and fresh for that run (Kosciuszko), we haven't had to do a lot with him in between,'' Beer told Racing NSW.
"He's just bursting to go to the races. He's in really good at the weights, I'd hate to think what price It's Me would be starting and we gave her six kilograms the other day and she beat us a head. I wasn't afraid to say how well I thought the horse was going in, at one stage he was 40-1 in that race, and he ran accordingly".
I think the horse has got a new lease on life. It's not far to go for a million dollars" Beer said.
If he brings his Kosciuszko run he will run in the first three, that's my summation. There's some bloody good horses there but for a $1 million race you don't not take that opportunity."