Fresh from his maiden Group 1 training victory with Bacardi Hurricane in Saturday night's Need For Speed Prince Final at the harness racing meeting at Tabcorp Park Melton, Jarrod Alchin is contemplating whether to start the three-year-old trotter in Thursday's Bathurst Gold Coronet.
Alchin will not risk the lightly raced trotter with so many feature races remaining in the season and will determine later in the week whether the son of Bacardi Lindy will make the trip to Bathurst.
"Bacardi Hurricane is in the Gold Coronet, he travelled back from Melbourne to Sydney on Monday and I'll see how he pulls up," Alchin said.
"At this stage he'll go around but he'll want to travel home well because he's still got the Foundation Final, The Flying Mile and the NSW Trotters Derby just across the road coming up."
Alchin thanked the connections of Bacardi Hurricane for being patient and believes their decision to spell the trotter as a two year old has been the making of him.
"He had all the ability in the world as a two year old but to their credit the owners listened to me and we just tipped him out.
In the long run that has done him the world of good, to look at him now he is still pretty immature and whatever he is doing at the moment he will improve on.
"I've been friends with the Munday family for quite a few years since I moved to Menangle about twelve or thirteen years ago.
To get my first group one as a trainer for them was very special."
Alchin also praised his younger brother Alex who played a big role in Saturday night's success.
Alex Alchin has been in Victoria for the past month in preparation for last Saturday night and also trained a winner at Melton with Cyclone Lucky Seven winning a Group 3.
"Alex is going to go a long way, he has worked for all of the big trainers in Sydney like John and Luke McCarthy and Paul Fitzpatrick.
Nothing gets missed, so when I thought about sending a team to Victoria I didn't hesitate to send Alex down with them.
"Alex is going to make a great trainer in his own right. It depends on what he decides to do but I think he's going to go out on his own and try to get a team together. I know he'll be very successful at it because he is so professional."
Greg Hayes