Speedster continues on road back with Caulfield jumpout

Brad Waters - Tuesday August 1

Injury curtailed her two-year-old season but speedy filly Blondie started her comeback to racing with a jumpout at Caulfield on Tuesday morning.

Brendan McCarthy is getting Blondie ready for a spring campaign. Photo: Darryl Sherer

Blondie ran a smart time when she easily won her debut outing at Moonee Valley in January but left the track with a significant problem after trailing in the field in Catchy's Blue Diamond Stakes a month later.

"She got a hairline fracture in her pelvis in the Blue Diamond and that was the end of her prep," Blondie's trainer Brendan McCarthy said.

"It was an unfortunate thing, she just copped a bump and I reckon that threw her off balance and it's happened then.

"Luckily because she's young, it's healed really well."

The Reward For Effort filly turned three on Tuesday and heralded the new season by running third to an unnamed three-year-old from the Clinton McDonald stable in the fifth heat of the morning.

With track rider Paul Sarlo in the saddle, Blondie showed her usual pace before cruising home over the last 100m of the 650m heat to finish three lengths from the winner.

"She just had a nice, very easy jumpout so it's a start," McCarthy said.

McCarthy said Blondie would trial again before her likely first-up run in the Quezette Stakes later this month but the trainer said he has not outlined the speedster's full spring campaign.

"I'm going to go into it with an open mind whether she goes towards the Blue Sapphire or the Thousand Guineas," McCarthy said.

"We'll be heading that sort of way but we'll feel our way with her."

Click here to view Blondie's jumpout at Caulfield.

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