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Improving Madison County tackles Crystal Mile; Breeze Up videos online now

Improving Madison County tackles Crystal Mile

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Madison County  has had no luck in his two starts this spring and again has drawn poorly ahead of Saturday's Gr.2 Schweppes Crystal Mile (1600m) at Moonee Valley.

The dual Group One winner will start from the outside gate of 11 in Saturday's contest, having jumped from barrier 17 when trapped wide in the Gr.1 Toorak Handicap (1600m), finishing seventh under top-weight.

"His run was okay in the Toorak," jockey Damian Lane said.

"He is probably still coming right. He is a little bit behind in his coat but he is starting to come good.

"It is a shame he has drawn wide again. It just makes it tricky around Moonee Valley.

"He is certainly improving with each run and he gets back to a better weight scale. He has been giving a lot of weight under handicap conditions, so that will suit him a bit better."

Madison County sports the colours of China Horse Club and could potentially back-up in next week's Gr.1 Kennedy Cantala (1600m) at Flemington.

Breeze Up videos online now

Videos of the 200m breeze ups of horses catalogued for next month's New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale are now online at www.nzb.co.nz

369 two-year-olds were put through their paces at Te Rapa ahead of the sale on November 20 and 21 at Karaka.

Each heat was recorded in high definition, the quality will automatically scale based on your internet connection and device. The video clips can also be downloaded from Vimeo or viewed in 'Couch Mode' which plays all clips from start to finish.

Breeze Ups will also be broadcast lot-by-lot on Trackside in New Zealand, and Racing.com in Australia, and can be viewed at the following times:

Trackside 1: Tuesday 29 October from 7:30pm andSunday 3 November from 1:30am

Trackside 2: Wednesday 30 October from 10:00am

Racing.com: Sunday 10 November from 6:00pm (AEST)