At the 100th start in a race, Iron horse Gentleman Max will attempt on Monday to win the $32,000 Bankstown Sports Club Forbes Cup (1600 metres) for a second time and in turn give Wagga Wagga trainer Trevor Sutherland his third successive win in the Cup.
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Gentleman Max defeated Zarlu and Something Borrowed in the 2017 Cup and last year finished fourth behind the Sutherland trained stablemate Willy White Socks.
Multiple premiership winning trainer Trevor Sutherland trains a big team and most of his horses have spells on a regular basis but not Gentleman Max who thrives on racing and prefers life in the stable to the spelling paddock.
Since beginning racing four years ago, Gentleman Max has raced on average every fortnight. From an incredible 99 starts he has recorded 13 wins and 29 placings and accumulated $257,160 prizemoney.
Over July, Gentleman Max had four starts and proving very versatile finished third over 2500 metres at Wagga Wagga and won over 1400 metres at Albury.
Although wet weather looks only an outside chance, if rain did arrive at Forbes on Monday the winning prospects for Gentleman Max would be greatly enhanced as all 13 wins have been on soft or heavy tracks.
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My Maher with a good record of seven wins from 30 starts will also be a starter in the Cup for Trevor Sutherland.
Trained at Albury by Ron Stubbs, Squidensquizz has very good form leading in to the Forbes Cup being a last start winner of the Narrandera Cup.
Prior to Narrandera, Squidensquizz ran consecutive seconds at Wagga Wagga, Bendigo (Vic) and Swan Hill (Vic) and then won at Corowa.Amthaal, runner up to Squidensquizz in the Narrandera Cup, is a relative newcomer to the Mark Gee stable at Goulburn.
Amthaal won successive races at Toowoomba in Queensland before coming south and finishing second at Moruya at the first run for Mark Gee.
Luke Pepper, a successful trainer at Canberra, knows the Forbes area well having won a Bedgerabong Cup as a jockey when riding on the Picnic circuit.
Gypsy Miss to represent Pepper in the Forbes Cup won five races in a row from April to June at Moruya, Sapphire Coast, Leeton, Wagga Wagga and Canberra and since then has finished second to Mr Trump over 1600 metres at Moruya.
Appoint Percy also trained by Pepper won the Bega Cup at the Sapphire Coast track in February has been racing reasonably well in strong company at recent starts.
Of the central west horses Steamin' from the in form Michael Mulholland stable at Wellington has a good chance having beaten Helstar and Annecy last start over 1600 metres at Dubbo while the Rodney Robb, Nyngan trained Bryan's Babe will have admirers after a strong finishing second to Crim at Wellington.
Veteran of the field, the nine-year-old Kingtantes has won six races and will carry the colours of Dubbo trainer Michael Lunn.
Forbes trainers with runners in supporting races are Wendy Baker, Barry Molloy, Dennis Bush and Peter Kirby.
