Murphy’s pacing bred mare makes trotting look easy

David Murphy has pacing bred squaregaiter Perfidious Sue (Captaintreacherous) firing of late with back-to-back harness racing wins at Maryborough and Melton ahead of Saturday night’s APG four and five-year-old Trot at Headquarters.

The five-year-old bred by high quality pacing stallion, Captaintreacherous has found her groove as a squaregaiter.

“She is pacing bred and it is a bit of a chore switching them over,” Murphy said.

“She has been to a few different trainers before us and we established that she could trot a bit and might have been better as a trotter – it started off a bit rocky, because we had to get the pace out of her.

“She is by Captaintreacherous which is quite a fiery stallion and her mum (Valiant Sue) is also fiery as well, she took a while to hit her straps and get trotting.

“She won a good race at Melton and went a little bit off the boil, but she has turned things around lately and her form has been good the last couple of runs or so.”

The mare has continued to find comfort in trotting according to the Dunnstown horseman.

“She was with probably three or four trainers before us and she always hung really bad and the reason she hung was probably because she wanted to trot,” he said.

“She is fairly fiery, but as far as her gait goes, she is a beautifully gaited trotter.

“It was about her mindset and getting her calm to stay in gait.”

Saturday night’s $15,000 event will give the 54-year-old a deeper understanding of the path forward for the winner of over $62,000.

“We will learn a lot because we have Shes Ruby Roo in the race and a lot of other good contenders,” he said.

“We get to find out where we fit in on Saturday night. I have got no doubt that with the times and sectionals she runs – she is up there with any of the really good horses.

“She is in good order at the moment and is in a good spot and we (have) sorted out the issues that might have caused a bit of a form slump.”

Perfidious Sue has drawn five for Saturday night’s 2240m event which is idyllic according to her trainer-driver.

“The draw is ideal for her. We will go forward and she is getting better and better out of the mobile all the time, “Murphy said.

The Stephen Clarke-prepared Suga Daddy has drawn one with Group 1 winner Shes Ruby Roo drawing seven for Jess Tubbs.

The APG four and five-year-old Trot is set to go at 9.03pm.