FOR the second time in as many weeks, Michelle Payne went for a scoot around on what is surely her favourite horse.
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The jockey continued her comeback to race riding by working about 10 of Darren Weir’s gallopers at the Ballarat Turf Club on Monday, one of which was Prince of Penzance.
Jarrod McLean, the foreman at Weir’s Warrnambool stable, said Payne rode the horse in a half-mile gallop.
He said Payne also rode a number of Weir horses, including the Melbourne Cup winner, last week and appeared to be going well.
McLean said Prince of Penzance, who finished second in the R A Lee Stakes at Morphettville during May at his only run since the Cup triumph, was being aimed for a first-up tilt at either the group 1 Memsie Stakes on August 27 or the group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes on September 10.
Payne is continuing her recovery from pancreatic surgery following a racetrack fall at Mildura in May.