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Mundijong trainer Michael Young is riding on the crest of an irresistible wave and his six runners at Gloucester Park on Friday night will have many supporters.

Young goes into the meeting bubbling with confidence after landing five winners from his past seven starters to improve his tally this season to 52 winners and 58 placegetters from just 192 starters.

Young has declared his brightest winning prospects on Friday night are Eighteen Carat in race seven and Plutonium in race four. He also names Im Themightylucy (race one) and Cooper (race six) as excellent each-way chances.

“I don’t think that there is a mare in the State who could sit outside Eighteen Carat and beat her,” said Young when discussing Eighteen Carat’s prospects after the mare had drawn ideally at barrier two in the group 3 $30,000 WASBA Four And Five-Year-Old Mares Pace.

“She is a serious horse, and she will be winning. She couldn’t have been any more impressive than she was when she led and won by a big margin from Angel In White last Friday week.”

Eighteen Carat, who will be driven by Gary Hall Jnr, will clash with Glorafilia, a four-year-old mare who will be making her Australian debut for trainer Mike Reed and will start from barrier five.

Glorafilia, who raced eight times in New Zealand for two wins and four placings, will be handled by Shannon Suvaljko, has given punters an important lead by choosing to drive her in preference to Blaze Coops and Patrikiar.

Suvaljko has driven the former New South Wales performer Blaze Coops (trained by Shane Tognolini) at her first three (unplaced) starts in WA before he was most impressed when he handled her in a 2150m Byford trial on Sunday morning when she set the pace and sprinted over the final 400m in 27.8sec. on her way to winning by five lengths from Aussie Scooter, rating 1.58.7.

Suvaljko also was in the sulky when the Craig Hynam-trained Patrikiar trailed the pacemaker and finished fast along the sprint lane to win a $14,000 feature event for mares at Northam on Saturday night.

Emily Suvaljko, fresh from a treble at Pinjarra on Monday and a double at Gloucester Park on Tuesday, will replace her father in the sulky behind Blaze Coops. Deni Roberts is the new driver for Patrikiar.

“I expect Plutonium to lead and win,” said Young after the New Zealand-bred six-year-old had drawn the prized No. 1 barrier in the 2130m Now Book It Pace.

Young produced Plutonium in fine fettle for his comeback race last Friday week when the Auckland Reactor gelding raced without cover early and then enjoyed an ideal passage in the one-out, one-back position before finishing fast to score an easy victory over Fanci A Dance in a 2536m event. It was a wonderful effort at his first appearance for 13 months.