Trainer< Peter McMaster is now priming his imported bay filly Choo Choo Blue for the ultra-rich Diamond Mile Race, scheduled for December 10 at Caymanas Park.

Choo Choo Blue (Cowtown Cat – Choobloo) produced another impressive performance on Saturday when she made all convincingly to win a Restricted Stakes event over 1,200 metres.

The three-year-old bay filly, ridden by Robert Halledeen, was a comfortable seven lengths in front of Polly B (Mellisa Ward) andAwesome Destiny (Shane Ellis) in a very good time of 1:12:1 minutes with a very strong headwind in the stretch.

“She (Choo Choo Blue) is being aimed at the big races, especially at the end of the year with the target (being) the rich Diamond Mile to be run in December. To put things a little simpler and more understandable to all, I bought Choo Choo Blue for the Diamond Mile Race,” McMaster told the Complete Racing Guide.

“She can win it.

Choo Choo Blue can win the Diamond Mile, without a doubt. She has the potential to do so unless something goes wrong. It is racing and anything can happen, but we are hoping for the best. Physically she can take training; she is a good horse, a top-class horse,” he stressed.

With two changes made for the second running of the Diamond Mile, McMaster said that his charge will have no problems qualifying based on the year-to-date earnings criterion.

“She is going places and rather quickly as well. She is a horse that will run very often, as after every race she eats out good and she doesn’t lose her condition – always in good nick. I think that in time, she will earn enough money to get into the line-up,” he continued.

He also said that the distance of a mile is no problem for Choo Choo Blue.

“She is a miler, but I am not going to throw her at a mile as yet; rather I will keep stepping her up until she reaches her true potential. There’s still seven furlongs to go, so I am just taking my time and let her improve,” he said.

The other change to the event is that the winners of the Jamaica Derby, the Superstakes, the Caribbean Sprint Championship and the Invitational Mile in the same year of the Diamond Mile will get automatic first- preference entry into the race.

After Choo Choo Blue’s victory last Saturday, McMaster said that he was pleased with her run.

“I am very much satisfied with the victory. Just as I expected her to do; go in front and make it her own race, and she even eased up before reaching the finish line. She could have done better, much better. The time could have been better as well, much better,” he ended.