For many trainers with a promising young galloper, the ambition of securing a major race during the spring racing season is a constant thought.

Cranbourne-based training partners Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr are no exception to this rule.

With the Golden Slipper victor Guest House already being aimed at significant targets, they are keen to see Buggsy follow a similar trajectory towards spring success.

However, the immediate focus is on how Buggsy performs in his resuming run in the Chef’s Hat Handicap (1000m) at Sandown this Saturday.

Buggsy marked his debut with a victory over the same distance in March and subsequently secured a third-place finish in the Listed Redoute’s Choice Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on April 11.

Kent Jnr expressed that Buggsy has ‘come of age’ this preparation.

“He won track and distance on debut, albeit very greenly, and he had probably come to the end of his prep when he ran third in a Listed race,” Kent Jnr stated.

“Whilst he only got beaten a length and ran third, I thought there was a bit more there and that he had come to the end of it by then, so we gave him a nice break, and have set him for the spring.

“He’s trialled up well and I think there’s improvement to come. His trackrider thinks the run will bring him on and it’s hard to disagree with him.

“He’s a strong colt but I think he’s forward enough for 1000 metres.”

While Kent Jnr indicated that Buggsy is sufficiently forward to compete and potentially win over 1000m on Saturday, he acknowledged the challenges in preparing the colt on rain-affected surfaces.

“It’s the same every spring,” Kent Jnr commented.

“We’re ducking and diving, avoiding Polytrack trials and waiting for the grass, but we’ve had a pretty good run with him.

“He’s had two good grass trials, he went well in the second one when he went head and head with a Group 1 filly from New Zealand (Lara Antipova) and they cleared out from third.

“He’s a sprinting colt. We don’t think we’ll get him out to a mile this preparation.

“That’s our feel at the moment and the obvious races beckon if he goes well on Saturday.”

Craig Williams, who partnered Buggsy to his maiden win, will again be aboard the colt for Saturday’s assignment.

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