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New home for Cup-bound Future History

In-form stayer Future History will have a stable change with a view to tackling the Melbourne Cup.

FUTURE HISTORY.
FUTURE HISTORY. Picture: Bradly Photos

Melbourne Cup winner Half Yours famously began his career with champion trainer Ciaron Maher before joining Tony and Calvin McEvoy, and connections of Future History are hoping for a similar segue.

Future History will be joining the team of Warwick Farm horseman Greg Hickman after part-owner Adam Carney, one of Hickman's biggest clients, upped his stake in the gelding to take a controlling interest.

Hickman confirmed Future History would be joining his stable when he returned from the spelling paddock and would be set for the Melbourne Cup.

"He (Carney) wants to aim it for the Melbourne Cup, and he wants me to train it," Hickman said.

"He's in the paddock at the moment. We will give him a little bit of time to rest but not enough to lose fitness, so we will probably run him in Queensland. There are a couple of races up there for him, then we will sit down and work out a preparation for Melbourne."

The winner of The Bart Cummings (2500m) in 2023, Future History finished unplaced in that's year's Melbourne Cup but returned to peak form during the summer, stringing together a hat-trick of stakes victories in Melbourne and Sydney.

He was given a break after finishing fourth in the Australia Day Cup (2400m) last month and Hickman can't wait to take over the reins. 

"It would be good for the young trainer from Gunnedah to have a runner in the Melbourne Cup," the experienced horseman quipped.

"You never think you'll be able to have a runner in a Melbourne Cup. We've still got to get there, but a potential horse that is a nice horse with good form . . . he is a hundred per cent sound and you've got to have those sound horses to be able to get in."

Half Yours won two of his first four starts for Maher before he was picked up by Tony and Calvin McEvoy, who produced him to capture the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double last spring.


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