Racing: Price looks east

Capel trainer Ross Price’s spirits have not been dampened by the bittersweet end to Colour Correct’s excellent campaign at the weekend, flagging a possible eastern states stint for the dominant six-year-old.

The stallion’s string of spring/summer metropolitan successes came to a frustrating conclusion on Saturday when he was galloped on in the Group 2 $400,000 Perth Cup (2400m) and never got the chance to impact the field.

In what was always going to be his last start before a spell, Colour Correct returned to the mounting yard with his off foreleg ‘‘the size of a football’’ according to Price, who co-trains the horse with his son Clint.

Ross said he had spoken to the owner in the wake of the run and predicted bigger and better things for the horse.

‘‘We’ll let the dust settle over the next week and then we’ll sit down and try and map something out,’’ he said.

‘‘We haven’t written off looking at something in the east; when you get up in the weights here it’s very limited what you can do.

‘‘We haven’t pin-pointed anything yet, we haven’t mentioned races, but we’ve certainly got to look at it.’’

If carrying top weight (57kg) in his first start over the distance after a number of high-profile scratchings was not hard enough, the injury evaporated any remaining hope Colour Correct had in Saturday’s staying feature that was won by $21 outsider Guest Wing.

‘‘There was a lot of interference in the race that cost us any chance at all,’’ Price said.

‘‘He got galloped on, someone galloped on one of his legs and he came back in with a fetlock as big as a football.

‘‘We had to icepack him and put pressure bandages on to get him home.’’

Colour Correct’s eight start campaign included feature wins in the $125,000 Asian Beau Stake, the $80,000 Ascot Gold Cup and the $225,000 Cox Stakes.