Coetzee's Team Ready To Rumble

Ipoh trainer's last-start winner Bullseye turns in a good gallop

- Brian Miller

It was at that last Perak meeting on April 26 that trainer Kevin Coetzee pulled off a winning double.

The South African conditioner bookended the show by taking the opener with Bullseye in the Class 5B event (1,600m), before winning the Cosmo C race (1,400m) with Man Of Action in the 10th and last race.

He had sent in a team of 20 then. Now, Coetzee has entered another big team of 24 runners for the 10-race meeting in Ipoh on May 11.

The 67-year-old handler was a busy man on the morning of May 6 as his team of horses were put through their paces on the training track in Ipoh.

Some of them did turn in some good gallops.

Bullseye was one of the impressive ones. The Per Incanto eight-year-old would have earned nods of approval when running the 600m in a flashy 39.8sec.

The New Zealand galloper could be looking at a race-to-race double.

Bullseye recorded his last-start victory in spectacular fashion when he came from a spot in midfield to power home like a speedboat among a bunch of canoeists.

He eventually beat Master Jiangmen by ½ length – going away – under Haris Pauzi.