Caulfield Guineas Day undercard

A brief look at some of the stories at Caulfield on Guineas Day. 

Brayden Star lands Caulfield Cup berth 

Trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young have some thinking to do after Brayden Star won a ballot exemption for the Caulfield Cup with his win in the Herbert Power Stakes (2400m). 

Next Saturday's Caulfield Cup (2400m) will be given consideration, but the trainers also have options in a bid to get the galloper into the Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on November 4. 

Brayden Star missed a start in last year's Melbourne Cup through the tough veterinary protocols implemented for the race. 

Young said Brayden Star would need to come through Saturday's win in excellent shape if he was to back back-up next week. 

"It's all about the horse, so if he comes through it well, possibly, but we'll have a talk to Seymour Bloodstock," Young said. 

"He'd have to come through it well, but there are options. You've got the Geelong Cup, you've got the Moonee Valley Cup, or you could just go straight into maybe a Melbourne Cup. 

"I don't know, we tried to get there (Melbourne Cup) last year and it didn't quite go our way, but it's just great that this horse has bounced back after the year that we've had. 

"The owners have just been so patient with it, all the protocols that we had to go through with him and it's just fantastic that he's bounced back and won today." 

Daffy mare Oh Too Good for rivals 

Trainer Kevin Daffy says he could not handle any more horses in his stable as his time is taken up looking after Group 3 Catanach's Jewellers Vase (1600m) winner Oh Too Good. 

Daffy prepares the sole horses he has in training at Pakenham and is a late comer to training ranks. 

"So much goes into it, it's a really hard industry and I've come to it fairly late and dedicated my whole life to this horse and every minute of every day is about this horse," Daffy said. 

"If I'm not with her, I'm watching her and looking after her and making sure she's happy so she can come out and do her best, and you saw the best today. 

"I can't handle any more than one, I'm at the limit.  

"She just tries so hard this horse and never puts in a bad run." 

Zou a Sensation in Weekend Hussler 

Zou Sensation has shown his versatility with an all-the-way victory in the Listed Weekend Hussler (1400m). 

The Leon and Troy Corstens and Will Larkin-trained galloper was taken straight to the front by Ben Allen and was able to control the contest. 

Larkin said Zou Sensation's racing varying racing patterns made the gelding a pleasure to have around the stable. 

"He's got a racing style where he can go back, go forward," Larkin said. 

"You can pretty much ride him how track biases are playing, which is not too much of a case sometimes, but he's a good horse to train. 

"There was no speed in the race and that's what Ben identified. He said, I'd like to take it up if I can and from a good draw, you're not going to give that away, especially when the horse has done it all before." 

Larkin said it had been a good start to the spring with Baraqiel capturing the Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley last month. 

"We probably lost a few of our main hopes earlier on in the spring, which is disappointing and there's not too many that are, at the moment, standing up. 

"So, with Baraqiel and him doing the job, it's always good and hopefully, the young ones will start to step up." 

Littlefield mare Bulletproof in Northwood Plume 

Charlotte Littlefield swapped her duties on horseback interviewing winning jockeys to being in the winner's circle as the trainer of She's Bulletproof, victorious in the Group 3 Northwood Plume Stakes (1200m). 

Littlefield interviewed the winning jockeys of the first nine races before switching to trainer mode. 

It was an emotional Littlefield who greeted She's Bulletproof back to scale after the mare's dam Offshore Sham, a horse bred and raced by her husband Julien Hay, died last Sunday when foaling a colt by Cylinder. 

"Our horses are our everything," Littlefield said. 

"It's a big operation for the two of us. I'm so proud of everyone. Amanda, her track rider, all our team at home, we've got the most phenomenal team." 

She's Bulletproof had not been seen since finishing second-last at Caulfield in August after some niggling complaints surfaced. 

"She had feet issues. She had muscle problems," Littlefield said. 

"She was probably a little bit too heavy still at that point and she hadn't been trialling well. 

"We went straight back to ground level, worked her way back up again, got everything sorted, and she's just gone and done that today." 

Point Barrow produces stunning burst 

Point Barrow had a case of the speed wobbles as she unleashed a devasting burst of speed to claim the Thoroughbred Club Of Australia Plate (1200m). 

The daughter of Blue Point trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman was near last turning for home before unleashing in the straight. 

"She was almost going too quick, that she starts to get off balance," Sam Freedman said. 

"She's going to go straight back now and obviously spot them a star. That's a low percentage play in any horse race, but when she gets a bit of speed in a race, she's got a wicked turn of foot." 

Freedman said the filly would now head to Flemington for Melbourne Cup week and attempt to win an important Stakes race for her future as a broodmare. 

"We might've showed our hand a bit, so we might have to try something a little bit better, whether we have a look at the Coolmore in a few weeks' time," Freedman said. 

"She's got great straight-line speed, she's got a real motor, so it's either that or the Red Roses on Oaks Day."