The Cranbourne Turf Club still refuses to identify runners in its jumpouts but it was happy to point out classy mare Yankee Rose was in action on the track on Tuesday.
Yankee Rose headed to Melbourne last week for her spring campaign, which will begin in Saturday week's Group I Memsie Stakes (1400m).
Yankee Rose's regular jockey Dean Yendall, who is returning from injury, was aboard the four-year-old in the jumpout and sent the daughter of All American around the outside of her unknown opposition before winning her heat comfortably.
Yankee Rose (widest runner) had a track gallop today as she prepares for a big Spring campaign starting Saturday week G1 @Caulfield Memsie pic.twitter.com/L1QhgJ75VF
— Cranbourne Turf Club (@CranTurfClub) August 22, 2017
Trainer David Vandyke told RSN927 on Wednesday that Yankee Rose has settled in well to her Cranbourne surroundings.
"We're in a good place going forward to Saturday week," Vandyke said.
"Cranbourne is a fantastic training centre and (trainer) Mick Kent is a great bloke and he's helped us so it's falling into place."
Vandyke was pleased with Yendall's report on Yankee Rose, who he said has been in work for an extended period before travelling to Victoria.
"He said she felt bigger and stronger because she has been in work for over six months and I guess I've seen that much of her that I can't give an honest comparison to last year," Vandyke said.
"It's good to hear him to say she felt better and being a four-year-old now instead of an early three-year-old, she needs to have improved and take that big step."
Vandyke said the 10 days until to Memsie Stakes was a long time to wait but he was keeping a positive outlook in the lead-up to the $1 million event.
"I just wish the race was tomorrow because she's in really good shape," Vandyke said.
"As we know, a lot can go wrong with this mare but we're staying positive and I was very happy with the way she pulled up after yesterday and it's just a matter of ticking her over now and holding her together."
