Deluge won’t worry Lincoln Fury when he resumes at Otaki on Friday

A deluge of rain is forecast to hit Otaki on Friday morning but that should only help Lincoln Fury.

Lincoln Farms’ four-year-old resumes from a near seven-month spell in the seventh race and has wet weather form, having won his maiden at Trentham in March on a slow 7 surface.

“He loves a bit of moisture,” says trainer Lisa Latta of the 23mm which Metservice is predicting.

“Ideally it won’t get heavy as that would make the race more like 1800 metres first-up, but he has good form in slow ground.”

Latta points out the conditions won’t be as bad as winter tracks anyway and says Lincoln Fury should be getting home strongly.

The All Too Hard gelding has had two jumpouts at Levin to prepare, performing well each time.

On November 5 he led until 100 metres out when his condition gave way and on November 27 he came wide on the turn from fourth to finish a good second, a run which pleased rider Robbie Hannam.

“He has the outside draw but with the off track this won’t be a major issue later in the day and his work has been good.”

Lincoln Fury has won only one of his 13 starts but is expected to fashion a better formline this prep over longer distances.

Ajay Lincoln, who runs in the sixth race, was expected to improve with a middle distance last time but again disappointed and Latta has dropped him back to 1600 metres on Friday.

But she says he’s an extremely unlikely starter if the track deteriorates as he’s shown zero ability on bad ground.