Glasshouse Handicap next for Adnocon

Dual Eye Liner Stakes winner Adnocon has some unfinished business at Caloundra next month in the Sunshine Coast’s feature sprint.

After he won the Eye Liner in 2010, Adnocon ran second to Woorim in the Listed Glasshouse Handicap (1400m).

The race is again his aim following the defence of his title in the Listed Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) at Ipswich on Saturday.

“As long as the track is dry he will go to the Glasshouse,” trainer Gerald Ryan said.

“He was second last year to Woorim who he will probably have to face again.

“But Woorim has had a tough winter campaign and Adnocon hasn’t so hopefully we can go on better this time.

“I’m proud of the horse. I set him for the Eye Liner in January and it all worked out.

“He had had a great preparation and was fit to win first-up.”

The Eye Liner was Adnocon’s first start since February but he was kept up to the mark with two recent barrier trials.

The Rob Heathcote-trained Woorim has had four starts this time in, snaring the Group Three BRC Sprint (1350m) at Doomben on May 21 before his seventh, beaten less than four lengths, in the Stradbroke Handicap.

A crowd of 25,000 packed the Ipswich track as the Queensland winter carnival draws to a close.

The final Group One race of the season, the Tattersalls Tiara, is at Eagle Farm on Saturday while the following week the Sunshine Coast meeting will bring the carnival to a close.

The Sydney-based Ryan spent several years training on the Gold Coast and said he believed a few adjustments made to the carnival had made it one to target.

“I think it’s been a great carnival over the past few years,” he said.

“Last year we had Melito racing up there and it was even better but on the whole I think they have it right.

The now retired Melito won the 2010 Tiara when it was known as the Winter Stakes.

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