Purton on for Price

April 18 2014 - 3:00am

Nowra trainer Luke Price is wary of the wet track as smart mare Belle De Coeur continues her return from a tendon injury in the Sapphire Stakes on Saturday. "She is a really nice filly and I think she could be a group horse, so you always worry about them,'' Price said. "She won those three in a row last year and I thought we would have some fun in the spring, but she did that tendon. I have brought her back slowly but it is going to be testing on Saturday.'' Price called on the ''old mates act'' to get Zac Purton to ride Belle De Coeur.

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