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By Ray Hickson

Trainer Jason Coyle will have a dilemma on his hands about promising mare Catch The Glory’s immediate future if she can continue her climb at Rosehill on Saturday.

Trainer Jason Coyle (Pic: Bradley Photos).

Catch The Glory has gone about collecting four wins from 12 starts somewhat under the radar and she’ll take a step toward a return to stakes company in the Asahi Super Dry Handicap (1100m).

Coyle exposed the mare to a couple of Listed races as a three-year-old but on the back of an impressive victory two weeks ago he’s confident she’s ready to step back up in grade.

“She’s worked through her grades quite nicely, we’re stepping into another level of benchmark now,’’ he said.

“But I don’t think you win a 78 with that turn of foot and by a margin, going away, without naturally thinking they can progress to the next level.

“She only has to hold her form to say she’s a genuine chance.”

The four-year-old, $4.80 with TAB on Friday, was placed twice on heavy tracks in Benchmark 78 grade prior to an easy win on a soft 5 where she safely held Polyglot and Cosmonova.

An improving Rosehill surface, rated heavy 8 on Friday, is encouraging for Coyle and he says his confidence levels will increase as the track dries.

“She’ll handle heavy if that’s what presented but it does take away that turn of foot she has, I don’t think she’s as comfortable as your genuine wet tracker,’’ he said.

“She hasn’t gone backwards from when she won two weeks ago. We’ve drawn well, every rating the track goes up the happier I’ll be.

“She just needs brings her form from her last few into that and she looks like she will be competitive at that level.”

As far as the future goes, Coyle said he has an open mind about whether to press on given she’s only had four runs this time in.

“It’s whether we start thinking about finding a paddock for her and letting this carnival play itself out and worry about her in the back end of the season,’’ he said.

It’s been almost a year since Maz Kanata’s last racetrack outing and Coyle said he’d be happy to kick her off in the Midway Handicap (1200m) if he sees continued improvement in the track.

The six-year-old has only had 11 starts and has been off the scene since last October, Coyle said there weren’t any major reasons for the extended break but he couldn’t be happier with how she’s training up.

“She’s come back as good as a horse can come back based on her trials,’’ he said.

“She does everything pretty easy in her trials so she hasn’t been put under a stack of pressure leading into her first-up run.

Catch The Glory wins at Rosehill on August 30

“I’d need to see the track improve, because I don’t think you’d want to go first-up on something in the back end of heavy off a long break.

“The barrier has been very kind to her, she doesn’t have to do anything in the run and only has to naturally come off the trials to race well.”

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