Tootsie Tears gave National Derby finalist Luai Banner a start and a five-length beating when she notched her sixth win in seven starts in Friday's 520m fourth and fifth grade.
Owner-trainer Michael Ivers revealed a sore hock had forced him to abandon plans for Tootsie Tears to contest the group one Ladbrokes National Futurity series held at Wentworth Park earlier this month.
"When she had a bit of soreness in the hock I gave her a month off and while that meant missing a lucrative race like the Futurity Tootsie Tears is too valuable to take any risks with.
"Even though she clocked 29.64 on Friday I believe Tootsie Tears is capable of going even faster.
"Next Saturday's $7,000 to the winner Queen Of The Coast, for the best eight bitches nominated, looks an ideal race for Tootsie Tears.
"She loves Gosford, she was broken in there and she has won over the 515m trip in 29.23 and 29.28 on that home track.''
"At least we've now got something to look forward to,'' exclaimed trainer Alan Proctor after Oceanside broke 30sec for the first time and ran home in a slashing 11.60 in winning a 520m Battlers Stakes at Wentworth Park on Friday night.
Oceanside's run home figures were the best of the night and were .04sec stronger than those recorded by the exciting Mark Gatt-trained Ritza Smoke, who took out Friday's opening event in a sizzling 29.53.
Oceanside, owned by Proctor's wife CHRIS and bred from their former handy race bitch Pop The Confetti, came from a distant fourth at the first turn to win by over a dozen lengths in 29.89, well inside the best 30.06 figures he had posted in any of his 15 previous Wentworth Park races.
"The track was fast on Friday and being in an early race suited Oceanside because he is a lunatic in the kennels,'' Alan Proctor said.
"I'm not getting carried away because let's face it, he won a five dog Battlers field.
"But that run home time means we have something to look forward to now.
"It won't happen yet, but later on I will step him up to middle distances.
"Oceanside's litter brother Rosacky Venom is about to resume racing and he has clocked 29.86 getting beaten at Wentworth Park so I expect him to win in town this preparation.''
Pop The Confetti, the dam of Oceanside and Rosacky Venom, had middle-distance credentials as she was placed in three Richmond 618m races.
Repeating his quartet achievement of a meeting at the Newcastle track a week earlier, Aussie Infrared's offspring to score on Friday were the Carole Eaton trained siblings Miss Louella and Logie Magic along with Nathan Goodwin's She's A Bumpy and Gigi La Femme, prepared by Beverley Sloan.
She's A Bumpy especially is bred to be good, as her dam Bumpy Black was a short course flying machine who won 27 races for the late Neil Lyford.
