Trusting Back to Winning Form in Gr.2

It has been a long time between drinks but Karaka graduate Trusting showed that he is back in winning form with a tough win in the $150,000 Group 2 Tattersalls Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

Trained by John Thompson, Trusting (Tale Of The Cat x Legible) has not been seen in the winners circle since 22 August 2009 when he won the Group 2 Warwick Stakes as a three-year-old against the older horses at Randwick over 1400 metres.

Coming into Saturday's race well backed by punters, Trusting had a troubled run in transit, forced to race three wide on the speed for Singapore's champion jockey Joao Moreira. Coming into the straight, Moreira kept the five-year-old honest and in the final furlong proved too strong for the European import My Kingdom of Fife (Kingmambo), taking the Group 2 by a head.

After missing the start and racing wide with no cover, Trusting's performance was very solid, running the final 600 metres in 34.42 seconds, a very impressive time as he had to make all his own luck in the race.

Now a winner of three of his nineteen starts, Trusting boasts career earnings of over A$750,000 with placings in the Group 1 Kingston Town Classic, Group 1 Epsom Handicap, Group 1 George Main Stakes and the Group 1 Golden Rose.

Bred by Fairway Thoroughbreds, Trusting was a $300,000 purchase by Patinack Farm from Gordon Cunningham's Curraghmore Stud at the 2008 Karaka Premier Sale.