Peter Dapiran reached a career highlight when he trained Zipping Brock to win the Group 1 Newcastle Herald National Derby (515m) at Unibet Gardens on February 7 and his success can continue at Sandown on Thursday night.
Dapiran puts the polish on Zipping Dallas, who will start from box one in the opening event and is ideally suited to notch up the third win of his career.
Zipping Dallas had little luck from box five when he finished fifth in the race won by El Grand Seal at Sandown on February 23 but will get a nice run from the rails and should provide some value.
"All he needs is a bit of luck early and I think he's a definite winning chance," owner Marty Hallinan said.
In an open race the run to the first turn is going to be very important with Flotilla (box three) a chance if she can find the lead with Nifty Neveelk (box four) and Lonesome Pilot (box five) others with claims.
In race five Prue Bale is coming off a terrific third behind Kiss Me Ketut and Punch One Out in a heat of the Australian Cup at The Meadows last Saturday night and will appreciate the rails draw.
Prue Bale has won at the track in a fast 29.42 and has the early pace to be prominent from the start.
Jordan Allen (box three) also contested a heat of the Australian Cup and was far from disgraced when third in the heat won by Buckle Up Wes and would not have to improve a great deal on that performance to win, while Empire Allen (box eight) will need a bit of luck early from the wide draw but has claims as he is another who was placed in the Australian Cup heats last weekend.
Nic Nac Nui (box five) showed good acceleration to win a heat of the GOBIS series at Sandown last Thursday night and although the final (race six) does look a harder race he can measure up to the task.
Campaspe Will (box eight) has won two of his three starts here including a 29.52 heat performance a week ago.
He handles a wide draw and is a winning chance again, while Dyna Filbert (box one) had the same draw to win here last start and is not without claims.
Race seven is for the stayers and Break O'Day (box three) stands out.
After winning over the 715m here two starts back, Break O'Day made up a lot of ground when third behind Immy Rose over the 680m at Geelong.
Ronald (box eight) has been unplaced in his two starts over this course and distance but is perfectly boxed out wide and does look the only danger.
Best Bet: Break O'Day (Race 7)
Best Value: Zipping Dallas (Race 1)
Quaddie: Race 5 - 1, 3, 8
Race 6 - 5, 8, 1
Race 7 - 3, 8
Race 8 - 2, 3, 1
$20 for 37.03%
