Gavin Bedggood will be hoping to strike while the iron is hot this Saturday when stable speedster Mornington Glory tackles the Listed Paramount Liquor Carlyon Stakes at The Valley.

Mornington Glory thriving in Cranbourne resurgence

Gavin Bedggood will be hoping to strike while the iron is hot this Saturday when stable speedster Mornington Glory tackles the Listed Paramount Liquor Carlyon Stakes at The Valley.Mornington Glory was previously trained on the peninsula as his name suggests, but found his way to Gavin Bedggood as a package deal after the Cranbourne-based trainer acquired Shalaman, owned by the same group.“We purchased a horse called Shalaman. A lot of the ownership stayed involved, and when I went to pick him (Shalaman) up, they said do you want to have a go with this horse (Mornington Glory). He was retired, and I guess the rest is history,” Bedggood said.Mornington Glory was an impressive winner of a BM100 handicap over the same course and distance a fortnight ago, streaking away to stun his rivals by nearly four lengths. The soft nature of the victory was impressive enough to see his rating rise from 96 to 100, earning him another opportunity to break through at black-type level for the first time this Saturday.“Just the ease of it. He began well, he went to sleep. Sometimes he can get a little bit keen in running, but he just dropped his head, and he looked to have the race sewn up a long way out.”“He obviously has to take on a few horses on Saturday that are going to be advantaged at the weights, but hopefully he can replicate that win again.”Mornington Glory goes into the feature race this week as the fittest horse in the field being third up, and the stable are hoping that edge in condition can assist him in trying to beat a horse like three-year-old filly Bold Bastille, who has a 6.5kg weight advantage.“Some of those horses aren’t going to be at their peak on Saturday with Group 1 targets in mind later on down the path.“He’s a gelding, he’s not a colt, so if a Group 1 presented itself then great, but it’s not the be all end all for us. We just want to pick our mark and pick up as much prize money and wins as we can along the way.”Gavin Bedggood is yet to win a Group 1 himself, but the former high weight and jumps jockey came closest with Mornington Glory in February when running 3rd in the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield. Should the son of Shalaa win impressively again this weekend, he could face the starter in a hot edition of the Charter Keck Cramer Moir Stakes at The Valley in two weeks, but Bedggood was his usual reserved self when speaking about the possibility of that eventuating.“We’ll just let him tell us. If he was to come out and win the Carlyon on Saturday in the fashion he did a fortnight ago then it’s something you have to consider.“But I’m a realest, and I’m more than happy to pick off the second-tier races if that’s what we have to do.”The ownership group of Mornington Glory features some very familiar names, including AFL heroines Shane Crawford, Brett Ratten and Fraser Brown, as well as Melbourne Storm chairman Matt Tripp. “They’ve been great. I don’t really hear from them,” Bedggood chuckled.“I’ve probably known Shane Crawford for 20 years. He raced horses where I worked as a teenager and it’s great to be training winners for him now.”Mornington Glory was ridden to perfection by Jamie Kah last start, but with Kah now booked on Bold Bastille, Ethan Brown will take the reins. &nbsp;&nbsp;

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Mornington Glory thriving in Cranbourne resurgence | The Valley