Mr Quickie On Song For Queensland Derby

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In-form jockey John Allen has put through his paces in a last piece of serious work ahead of the Derby.

Allen went to on Monday to work Mr Quickie over 1600m before the gelding flies to Brisbane on .

Mr Quickie will be attempting to give Allen a fifth Group One win for the season when he runs in Saturday's 2400m-race race at .

Trainer Phillip Stokes said he was content to head to Brisbane with Mr Quickie after the gallop.

“John Allen came down and galloped him this morning with a mate,” Stokes said.

“We gave him a canter from the 2000 (metres), ran a mile in evens and quickened up in the last 400 metres.

“He cornered well and did everything nicely going in the right-hand direction on the course proper here at Pakenham.”

Formerly trained by , Mr Quickie has won three of his five starts since joining Stokes' yard and was a last-start third in the Group One South at on May 11.

Stokes said Mr Quickie was holding his condition well .

“He's still got to travel up there tomorrow and hopefully that all goes well,” Stokes said.

“He'll stay on course at Eagle Farm. We'll get him settled and hopefully he can have a cruisy week until the race on Saturday.

“We preferred to give him all his work at home on surfaces that we know and hopefully that will all pan out.”

Mr Quickie is the $6 second favourite with the -trained last-start winner Nobu the $4 market leader.

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