Australia: Lancer gets more ground in Canterbury Park handicap

In two starts in March and once earlier this month, Lancer closed with interest in six-furlong races in Australia to lose twice by a nose and once by two lengths.

A start in a longer race has arrived. Lancer is entered in a handicap at about 7 3/4 furlongs at Canterbury Park in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday that could put the Southern Hemisphere 3-year-old gelding in the winner’s circle for the second time in his eighth start.

Trained by the team of Adrian Bott and Gai Waterhouse, Lancer is part of a field of 10 in the handicap, the sixth of eight races on a program that begins at 10:50 p.m. Eastern, or 7:50 p.m. Pacific on Tuesday. Wagering on the Canterbury Park program, and other leading tracks from Australia, will be available on DRFBets.com across American time zones late Tuesday and early Wednesday.

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Lancer will be ridden by Adam Hyeronimus, who is closely allied with the Bott-Waterhouse team. Lancer will carry 124 pounds, six less than topweight Come Along, who is winless in his last five starts. Similar to Lancer, Come Along is a closer. Trained by John Sargent, Come Along rallied from ninth in a one-mile handicap on April 8at Warwick Farm Racecourse to finish second by a head.

Sargent’s stable is in need of a boost, going winless with 46 runners from Feb. 22 through Saturday. By comparison, the Bott-Waterhouse stable won with 4 of 12 runners from April 12 through Sunday.

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The stable have an intriguing runner in the field with the 4-year-old Irish-bred Invasion Day, who has won 2 of 17 starts. Invasion Day will have his Australian debut at Canterbury Park on Wednesday.

Racing in Ireland and France in the last two years, Invasion Day won a maiden race at Cork in 2018 when trained by Ger Lyons and a minor handicap on the all-weather track at Kempton Park in England last October in his final start in that country. Invasion Day was trained by David O’Meara in the final months of 2019.