Five Car Stud To Resume

The career of talented but injury-plagued sprinter Five Car Stud has been resurrected yet again and he is ready to resume in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield.

Trainer Anthony Cummings says the rising eight-year-old is not out of place in the weight-for-age event which will be just his fifth start.

Bought by Anthony Cummings for around $100,000 as a yearling, Five Car Stud has not raced since he posted his second career win at Canterbury in March 2008.

“he’s a nice horse on his way back. He’s had a few issues but he’s going pretty good,” Cumming said.

“He’s had three career ending injuries so far as well as the usual joints and shin soreness. He bowed a tendon and then bowed it again after which he had the stem cell (therapy) which seems to have worked out pretty well.”

Despite all Five Car Stud’s tribulations, Cummings and the gelding’s owners have been willing to keep persevering with him.

“He’s shown a fair bit. He took a couple of runs to work himself out, but his last two runs were excellent and he ran nice time so there is a fair bit of promise there still,” said the Randwick trainer.

Cummings said Five Car Stud spent six to eight weeks in the water walker at Rockmount before he came into his Caulfield stables eight weeks ago.

The trainer isn’t perturbed about the class of race even though Five Car Stud has been off the scene for so long.

“I havn’t had a good look at he race yet but I think he’s up to the standard,” he said.