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By Tony Megahey

Unbeaten prospect Cambar will concede experience as a three-year-old colt into a Rosehill Gardens TAB Highway on Saturday but his trainer Gary Colvin hopes he can be ample consolation while his stable star Another One is recovering from injury.

A $50,000 yearling purchase, by Pierata from Miss Quaintly (More Than Ready). Cambar impressed winning at home track Wagga Wagga in fast times and by margins at short odds in August and September.

Resuming and primed by Gary with a winning Gundagai trial two weeks ago, Cambar carries 55kg and in a humorous anecdote Gary mistakenly nominated long retired Riverina jockey Brad Clark, now a regional steward, as the rider instead of Tim Clark into the $120,000 1100m Class 2.

Trainer Gary Colvin (Pic: Steve Hart)

“My blue, embarrassing, Brad used to ride a lot for me over the years but he retired in 2021. He rang back and said would it be okay if he rode it 5kgs over, with the travel and just the one ride all day!” Gary chuckled.

Meanwhile, Cambar is making the natural progression from dominant regional wins for the multiple Highway series winning Colvin who burst to prominence winning the 2022 Newhaven Park Country Championship final with Another One.

A colt racing at the regionals is a rarity.

“I made the decision not to geld him, on what he was showing,'' Colvin said.

"He's a natural, has lovely flowing action. He has an ideal temperament for a colt, there's not a lot of him but he's an all-round nice package and has all that upside off the wins.

“So far so good, we’ll see what happens this prep with more maturity.”

Cambar was an Inglis yearling purchase for Colvin in an ownership group of four and he’s also in the Another One syndicate.

Colvin’s concern is not restricted to the older tougher opposition in a capacity field, though he opened $3.60 with TAB. Cambar’s lengthy and first trip away (near 10 hours return) from Wagga Wagga likely is confronted by the recent state-wide heat wave conditions.

“It is, we’re staying the day before with a racing mate Paul Murray at Kembla to break up the trip and travel before the heat peaks.”

In his two starts, Cambar won a 1000m home maiden running away on a heavy track in August and then came from last of eight runners for a Class 1, at the same distance, both with Colvin’s stable apprentice Holly Durnan who also rode the colt to win the recent trial.

“The way he’s been closing at 1000m back home, out a bit in distance suits and he handles all ground,” he said.

“You’ll find he’ll race closer from the good gate (5) out a bit in distance.”

Meanwhile, the situation with Another One?

“He kicked out in the yard, struck himself in a back leg, had a hairline fracture and it took a while to heal but he’ll be back in work in a few weeks,'' Colvin said.

All the fields, form and replays for Saturday’s Rosehill meeting