However, one of Towac Park’s beloved cult heroes proved there’s life in the old girl yet with a second place in the Gilgandra Services Co-op Limited Coo-ee Cup Class 2 Handicap on Sunday. 

Snappy was three lengths behind winner Talk of the Town, trained by Dubbo trainer Natalie Pearce, and only just ahead of the third and fourth-place finishers Baradine Bound and Percussion. 

Plummer said he was “happy with that” second-placing and said he was happy to keep her going. 

“She’s been up for a while and she’s been running well,” he said

“She’s an eight-year-old mare but she keeps running well so we’ll keep her going.”

He said pleasing the mare wasn’t difficult. 

“We’ve got a big yard for her with the gum tree and a watering hole,” he said.

“We get her out once a week on the track and do some lunges but otherwise she does it on her own.”

Bossy Rose finished seventh in the same race, while Fine Hero ran third in the Gilgandra Newspaper Bob Foran Memorial Gilgandra Town Plate. 

Plummer will have four horses run in Tuesday’s meet at Towac Park, and is bullish on all four having good runs. 

“The most likely is Bush Rambler, he ran a nice start at Orange the other day and is finding some good form,” Plummer said. 

The three-year-old filly ran third at Towac Park last start, which was her first run in six weeks after promising trial form of a second and a fourth in November. 

Plummer is also hoping for an improvement from four-year-old Matchfox after overcoming some equipment difficulties last start – also at Towac Park. 

“We’ve had some issues with Matchfox with bumpers, last week was the first gallop he’d had and he had some issues so he’ll improve a lot, a bit of change into him,” he said. 

​”The key to him will be the track, it was really firm last time so hopefully we get some showers or thunderstorms [on Monday afternoon], if we get an amount and it gets the track wet that will help him.”

The dry track was a feature at Towac Park last race meet, with the dry conditions making the course very firm underneath.

While Plummer said it wasn’t ideal, he also acknowledged that Australia in January doesn’t tend to be a wet place. 

“I was down at Canberra the other day and that was a firm track too. It’s hot, dry and windy and if you’re trying to put water on the track, well what can you do?” he said.

“Hardest thing is it’s been so warm and so dry.” 

Racing kicks off from 1.40pm.