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By Neil Evans

A talented and still progressing filly is set to make her provincial breakthrough when she tackles the feature race at Monday's Beaumont Track meeting in Newcastle.

Pensativa ($3.10 on TAB), from the Lou Mary stable at Scone, claimed her second win three weeks back when careering away to bolt in a Class 2 Handicap at Gunnedah.

That win represented an important bounce-back for the daughter of Group 1 winner Impending after everything went wrong as a short-priced favourite at Muswellbrook the start before.

Pensativa (Jake Pracey-Holmes) bolts in at Gunnedah. Image by Bradley Photographers

Ridden a long way back, Pensativa seemingly resented a heavy-rated surface that was very chopped up.

Back on firm ground at Gunnedah she was ridden closer and kept out of trouble, sweeping away over the final part and easily running the quickest time in three races over 1300m.

It all confirmed Pensativa's overwhelming preference for dry tracks having won two from four, yet she's still to run a place from three starts on any rain-affected ground.

Ahead of this latest challenge in The Adviser Collective BM 66 Handicap over 1350m, the Beaumont surface was rated a Good 4 in the lead-up although a late Monday storm is being forecasted so connections and punters alike will be watching the clock all the way to the jump.

Either way there'll be pressure on the filly's new jockey Irish-born Ronan Whelan who takes over from Jake Pracey-Holmes.

Now 32, Whelan won a Group 1 at The Curragh back in late 2018 and during his time across Ireland twice won four races on the same program.

Pensativa was locked in an early battle for favouritism at $3.10 with four-year-old Merchant Empire ($2.70) who was out to bounce back from a disappointing run first-up in a Class 1 on the Newcastle course proper.

Pensativa could well be part of another lucrative day for Scone stables.

The Brett Cavanough stable brings back talented three-year-old Haze ($2.40 favourite) off a month-long break in the Davali Yearlings @ Classic Maiden over 1350m, dropping back sharply in trip from an unplaced Class 1 effort over 1900m.

And Scott Singleton will be confident his progressive mare Kimberley Moon ($4.40 equal favourite) can claim a third win from just five starts when she tackles the Dailey Family Funerals F&M BM 58 Handicap for fillies and mares over 1150m.

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