JEDIBEEL GETS SCHILLER BACK FOR 10,000 BID

TUESDAY: May 6, 2025: CLASSY Hawkesbury sprinter Jedibeel will be reunited with Tyler Schiller in the Group 1 Doomben 10,000 (1200m).

Leading trainer Brad Widdup today confirmed Schiller’s booking for the gelding in Saturday week’s $1.5m feature sprint.

Robbie Dolan had the mount on Jedibeel when he was nosed out by roughie Libertad in the Group 2 Victory Stakes (1300m) at Eagle Farm last Saturday.

“Tyler was always booked for the Doomben 10,000,” Widdup said.

“However he was unavailable last Saturday as he rode at the Hawkesbury stand-alone meeting.

“Jedibeel has pulled up well and remained in Brisbane.”

Schiller has ridden the Savabeel five-year-old in nine of his 21 career starts – and won six on him, including the Group 2 Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Royal Randwick on March 8.

The Challenge was run at weight-for-age, the same as the Victory Stakes and next week’s Doomben 10,000.

Whilst Widdup initially planned the two wfa races with Jedibeel at the Brisbane carnival, he has not ruled out extending the gelding’s stay for the $3m Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) – which is a handicap - at Eagle Farm on June 14.

“It will all depend on how he shapes in the Doomben 10,000, but I feel Jedibeel is ready now to stretch out to 1400m,” he said.

Widdup will have another carnival runner at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Three-year-old filly Canny Queen tackles the Listed Gold Coast Bracelet (1800m) against her own sex, with Dolan aboard.