Chat Set To Do The Talking in Show County

A winner first up in the July Sprint at Rosehill before second in the Gr2 Missile Stakes behind Phobetor (Dream Ahead), the John Thompson-trained Chat (Deep Field-Only Words, by End Sweep) has the form on the board to make his presence felt in the Gr3 Show County Quality (1200m) at Randwick. With many of the runners in the field using Saturday's race as the starting point for their future Spring campaign, Chat looks to be in an enviable position to record his breakthrough stakes success and, with Nash Rawiller on board from barrier 3, the 5YO should be able to get a positive run throughout. "He's underrated and he gives his best all the time," Thompson stated to Racenet. "Even when he gets beaten, if you watch a few of his runs last time in he was pretty unlucky." In what looks a wide open race, the Joe Pride trained Private Eye (Al Maher-Confidential Queen, by Shamardal) holds favouritism off the back of a fine Winter campaign which culminated in success in the Gr2 Queensland Guineas where he defeated eventual Gr1 Queensland Derby winner Kukeracha (Night Of Thunder). Another who could be readied for a solid showing first up is Team Hawkes' Gr1 performer Rock (Pierro-Subtitle, by Fastnet Rock) who has only finished outside of the top three once in six first up attempts.