I AM GOOD AT THIS COULD LIVE UP TO HIS NAME IN THE BIRDSVILLE CUP

By Graham Potter | Saturday, September 7, 2024

Chris Whiteley rode his first winner in March 1991. The horse’s name was Snobbery and, all these years later, he will take a similar horse name theme into the 2024 Birdsville Cup, having secured the ride aboard I Am Good At This.

Whiteley, who for the most part, plies his trade these days on the North Queensland racing circuit, has ridden over 1900m winners during his career and he would love to add a Birdsville Cup win to his list of successes.

In that regard, while form alone is not a guaranteed factor ... with Birdsville, so much depends on how well a horse travels and how it copes with the conditions ... all things being equal, the signs are there that I Am Good At This could well live up to his name.

The six-year-old son of I Am Invincible, who will be having his second start for trainer Clinton Austin since relocating from the Mathhew Dunn yard, is a last start winner having saluted at Aramac by a commanding 3.25 lengths when on debut for the Austin stable.

That win was over 1400m and the step up to the 1600m of the Cup should be no bother as he has previously finished runner-up over 1650m, when just touched off in a tight finish, and has, in fact, won over 1720m, both of those results coming at Grafton.

Just three runs before that I Am Good At This was racing in town in a Metropolitan meeting at Doomben where, although finishing unplaced, he wasn’t that far off them.

Certainly, promising enough form for a Birdsville assignment.

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