Jungle Edge lumped with 63.5kg in Pakenham Handicap

Trainer Mick Bell is set to back up his mudlark Jungle Edge despite the seven year old being lumped with 63.5kg in the $100,000 Stabil-Lime Group Handicap (1200m) at Racing.com Park at Pakenham on Saturday.

Jungle Edge, above, has been lumped with 63.5kg for the Stabil-Lime Group Handicap at Pakenham. Photo by Steve Hart.

All of Jungle Edge’s thirteen wins have been on rain affected track and with the Pakenham track rated a heavy 8 at this stage in the week with more rain expected, Bell is reluctant to pass up another opportunity to run his stable star on wet surface.

“He’s a 109-rater so he’s earned his weight,” Bell told racing.com.

“That doesn’t mean I think he’ll go out and just win – he’s vulnerable – but he’s jumping out of his skin and the track’s a Heavy 8 at the moment with rain later in the week so I think he’ll run.”

Jungle Edge heads up the twenty-seven nominations for the Stabil-Lime Group Handicap and will be chasing a hat trick of wins following his victories in the Group 3 $150,000 Kevin Heffernan Stakes (1300m) at Sandown November 18 and in the $100,000 Le Pines Funerals Handicap (1000m) on the Ladbrokes Park Hillside track at Sandown last Saturday.

Jungle Edge was handicapped with 62kg last start in the Le Pines Funerals Handicap but his weight was reduce to 59kg courtesy of apprentice Georgina Cartwright’s 3kg claim.

The noted wet tracker was in fine form during the Sydney Autumn Carnival when he found a heavy 9 rated track at Rosehill for his win in the Group 3 $150,000 E-Group Security Star Kingdom Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill and then three starts later led all of the way on a heavy 8 rated track to claim the Group 3 $125,000 Taxibox BRC Sprint (1350m) at Doomben during the Brisbane Winter Carnival.

Weights for the Stabil-Lime Group Handicap (1200m)

#	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Ballot	Weight	Hcp Rating
1	1207687511	JUNGLE EDGE	G	7	Mick Bell	1	63.5kg	109
2	4231122217	CHAMOIS ROAD	G	5	Patrick Payne	2	55.5kg	93
3	664110208x	STELLAR COLLISION	G	5	Darren Weir	3	54.5kg	91
4	17203300×5	SIRBIBLE	G	6	Russell Bell	4	54.5kg	91
5	8x506979x9	HAZZABEEL (NZ)	G	7	Peter Healey	5	54.5kg	91
6	713365278x	ZEBRINZ	G	7	Leon & Troy Corstens	6	54kg	90
7	7304430×03	TRIED AND TIRED	G	8	Jarrod McLean	7	54kg	89
8	7250×11116	STEEL FROST	G	5	Will Clarken	8	54kg	87
9	4131283×70	SMART DART	G	7	Cindy Alderson	9	54kg	87
10	287758×802	DAN ZEPHYR	G	7	Pat Carey	10	54kg	86
11	x08524x894	ONEROUS	G	6	Mitchell Beer & Max Hinton	11	54kg	84
12	x166113x80	THELBURG	G	5	John Sadler	12	54kg	82
13	x9x2154172	PROUD WOLF	G	6	Lee & Shannon Hope	13	54kg	82
14	215123301x	LEODORO	G	6	Michael Kent	14	54kg	81
15	39x0925x10	KIRANI	G	7	Pat Hyland	15	54kg	80
16	3114×02065	OBERLAND	G	5	Darren Weir	16	54kg	79
17	4x337534x6	JUST MAGICAL	G	6	Lyn Tolson & Leonie Proctor	17	54kg	78
18	x745x62051	ANOTHER DIAMOND	M	5	Bill Cerchi	18	54kg	75
19	2312724251	WIND FORCE	G	5	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	19	54kg	75
20	0x90984671	TADDEI TONDO	G	8	Gerard Moloney	20	54kg	75
21	8088×16971	SWORD OF JUSTICE	G	5	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	21	54kg	74
22	x11536104x	GREVISTE	G	4	Mitchell Freedman	22	54kg	71
23	183x2x9882	ROYAL SPINNER	G	7	Bill Cerchi	23	54kg	69
24	511471×576	COUNT THE INTEREST	G	8	Gary Mallinson	24	54kg	69
25	845271660x	ARTIE FRED	G	5	Paul Rocke	25	54kg	66
26	12533253×1	FRANKINCENSE (NZ)	G	5	Ron Stephens	26	54kg	63
27	266x3x6217	ONE HOT DANE	G	5	Tim Hughes	27	54kg	58