{"id":5532,"date":"2020-12-21T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T06:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/?post_type=news&p=5532"},"modified":"2022-02-11T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T23:01:26","slug":"noonans-rusheen-to-blue-diamond-stakes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/theracingsharks.com.au\/news\/noonans-rusheen-to-blue-diamond-stakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Noonan’s Rusheen to Blue Diamond Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Noonan isn’t renowned as a trainer of two-year-olds and that is not surprising on a couple of fronts.<\/p>\n

The Mornington trainer doesn’t push his horses to race early and these days he only trains a handful of youngsters.<\/p>\n

This season he only has four two-year-olds in his stable but one of them, Rusheen, has emerged as a potential Blue Diamond Stakes candidate.<\/p>\n

Rusheen, by Toronado, made an impressive debut recently when he was successful at Bendigo.<\/p>\n

Noonan is excited about Rusheen’s future saying that he hasn’t had a horse as good as him in the stable for some time.<\/p>\n

The 60-year-old horseman, who now describes himself as a boutique trainer, has had success with Group One winners Ortensia and Piavonic as well as the likes of Majestic Avenue, Varenna Miss, Show No Emotion and Gunnamatta.<\/p>

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Noonan has nominated Rusheen for the 1200m two-year-old race at Caulfield on Saturday and says his performance will determine whether he proceeds to the Blue Diamond Stakes.<\/p>\n

“If he runs as we expect he will we would head to the Blue Diamond Prelude before running in the Blue Diamond Stakes,” Noonan said.<\/p>\n

Noonan purchased Rusheen as a yearling at the 2019 Inglis Classic Sale for $60,000 and the youngster was the only horse he bought at the sale.<\/p>\n

Noonan said Rusheen was a strong, robust colt.<\/p>\n

“He’s got a good attitude and he eats like a good horse so we’ll give him every opportunity to take advantage of his natural ability,” he said.<\/p>\n

Noonan won a Blue Diamond Prelude in 1996 with Jumpin’ Jive and a Blue Diamond Preview with Northeast Sheila three years later.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think I’ve had a runner in those races since so it would be good to get back there with Rusheen and then into the Blue Diamond Stakes,” Noonan said.<\/p>\n\n

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