Forster stable with big TAB Queensland Summer Racing Carnival hopes

By Jordan Gerrans

Desleigh Forster has a big team of horses set for the TAB Queensland Summer Racing Carnival with a young filly proving to be an exciting prospect for the Eagle Farm trainer.

After a recent stint in quarantine following Apache Chase and Georgie’s Pride’s gallant Sydney efforts, Forster has plans for her strong stable of gallopers all mapped out for the summer months into 2022.

It will start on the Gold Coast this Saturday afternoon with the fresh Red Chase in the Listed Recognition Stakes while stable newcomer Bright Rubick was set to have her first run for the Forster yard but that has been slightly delayed. 

“Hopefully on Millions day early next year we will have Chapter And Verse in the QTIS race, Apache Chase in the Cup and George’s Pride in the fillies and mares,” she said.

“They all have nice races as lead-ins to the Millions.

“We sort of target these races and we will space their runs out.

“The two have come back nice and fresh from Sydney so we will target these races now.”

But, it is the early form and potential of two-year-old filly Exo Lady that has Forster smiling the most. 

While connections of the Exosphere youngster have not paid up for the Magic Millions early next year, there are still nice races on the agenda for the unbeaten filly before she looks towards the winter of 2022.

Forster thinks the best is still yet to come for Exo Lady.

“She has a nice future this filly,” Forster said.

“She is not one dimensional, because she has jumped and led in her two races, I think she will be a better chaser when she learns, when she has something in front of her that she can chase – she will be a totally different horse.

“I really like her. She is built like a little colt. Since she has gone out and come back, she grown and developed into a really nice filly now.”

After he second career victory in late October, Exo Lady spent a week away from the stable on the treadmill.

Forster, who hails from Ilfracombe, thought about putting Exo Lady away for the summer – giving her a long break into the winter carnival - but will now target the Listed Calaway Gal next month at Eagle Farm before the Group 3 B J McLachlan Stakes at Doomben on Boxing Day.

“She is a pretty exciting little filly,” Forster said.

“What she is doing right now is just on raw ability. She is nice and fresh.”