Jock Gollogly was part of the material of Newcastle racing and Kris Lees would like to win the race named in his honour.
When the information got here that Newcastle clocker Alan “Jock″ Gollogly had misplaced his lengthy battle with most cancers through the week, Australian Bloodstock boss Jamie Lovett opened his telephone and checked out his messages.
Lovett, coach Kris Lees and Gollogly spent many hours within the field on the prime of the Newcastle grandstand within the mornings watching horses work, and when Lovett wasn’t there he trusted the eyes of the opposite two.
“He would all the time ship me messages, and the final one earlier than he went into hospital for the final time mentioned ‘Rogue Bear Dream Hour going effectively at gallops’. It appears proper that Rogue Bear will run in Jock’s race on Saturday,” Lovett mentioned.
Dream Hour lived as much as what Gollogly noticed when he charged to victory in The Wave to earn Australian Bloodstock a Stradbroke spot within the former jockey’s previous house of Brisbane. It’s Rogue Bear’s flip tomorrow within the Vale Mr Alan ‘Jock’ Gollogly (1800m).
Lovett, Lees and a bunch of mates met at a Newcastle pub on Tuesday to inform Gollogly tales.
“Jock would love all this consideration however can be a bit blown away by it as effectively,” Lovett mentioned. “It’s nice to have a runner within the Jock Gollogly race at Randwick on Saturday and it might be greater than particular to win it for all of us. It’s humorous that this horse was in that message. Rogue Bear is a horse that has reached his proper degree and he’s going to win at this degree once more, and Saturday can be the right time.”
The import has been in good type. He was runner-up within the Taree Cup, which makes him eligible for the Little Dance and perhaps the Huge Dance subsequent yr, and was a grinding third behind Kapakiri final Saturday.
Rogue Bear received 3 times in England earlier than coming Down Below, and in his second preparation he seems to have acclimatised.
“Now we have gone for the fast back-up with him and put the blinkers on,” Lees mentioned. “However I believe probably the most important factor for him is the three-kilo declare for Ben [Osmond] as a result of he isn’t that huge.