By his own admission, Norm Gardner isn't one to talk up his horses.
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But that might just have to change this spring after Delacour's strong win in the Federal Handicap (1080m) at Thoroughbred Park on Friday thrust the four-year-old mare right into Kosciuszko contention.
Set to be run at Randwick on October 16, the $1.3m Kosciuszko would fall deep into Delacour's spring preparation should she be selected for the race and Gardner firmly believed his daughter of Magic Albert would be a genuine contender for the six-furlong feature.
"Because I'm not a trainer that rings up the press and spruiks these horses like the other trainers are doing, she's not mentioned [as a Kosciuszko contender]," Gardner said.
"We'll be starting to mention her now because now she's learned to relax in her races, she'll be much better off.
"She can run 1200 [metres]. Everyone spruiks all these horses and some of those horses are winning Class 2s in Coonabarabran and they're spruiking them.
"We've got horses here winning Federals that are still only four year old and no one even mentions them.
"The hard part is you don't go in on form, you go in one what people want. We've just got to start buying some tickets.
"Now that she's learned to race that way we'll win a lot more races with her."
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Randwick is set to host the fourth renewal of the increasingly popular Kosciuszko, a race which offers 14 slots to members of the public.
Each slot is drawn at random via a sweepstakes, and winning entrants are than able to nominate an ACT or NSW-based horse to run in the race.
The 14 winning tickets will be drawn on September 9.
Should Delacour be nominated to run in the race, she'd be out to emulate Canberra galloper Handle The Truth who won the 2019 Kosciuszko.
Before that, Gardner said he'd likely step his mare up to open company looking to build on Friday's impressive win.
"Even today, she'd had 12 starts and she still carried 58 and a half [kilograms], it's very, very hard to place her," Gardner said.
"The Federals used to be [Benchmark] 70s, and she got too much weight in them but they've upped them to 75 which brought her right into it.
"We've been trying to get her to settle in her races, we finally got her to do that today.
"I was really confident today, I said to [jockey] Brendan [Ward] If we can just take a sit on them and come over the top of them, I was very confident we could win that."
Delacour's win was part of a dominant day for Canberra trainers on the Acton track, with all eight races shared among eight different local stables.
Todd Smart's Eurosay finished strongest in the Benchmark 65 Handicap (1280m), under the urgings of Damon Budler who rode a hat-trick of winners.
He steered Mick Miladinovic's Lenny's Lad and Matt Dale's Clem Fandango to wins earlier in the day, and narrowly missed a fourth in the last aboard You Are King, who couldn't hold out Nick Olive's Miss Manzanilla.
Luke Pepper, Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones, Todd Smart, and Ron Weston and John Nisbet also led in winners.