'It's on the bucket list': Albury Cup on Beer's radar with Geemes
By Jett Hatton (Racenet) - 30 November 2025: https://www.racenet.com.au/news/mitch-beer-to-target-albury-cup-with-saturdays-rosehill-winner-geemes-20251130

The Albury Cup has always been on the bucket list for trainer Mitch Beer, and he might have a genuine contender in next year's renewal with promising mare Geemes.

A tried horse that Beer bought online with Patriot Bloodstock, Geemes reeled off her third straight win when taking out the Midway at Rosehill on Saturday in impressive fashion.

Beer, who spent multiple years training at Albury, has never had a winner in the Gold Cup and is keen to set the daughter of Grunt on that path in 2026.

"We'll give her two or three weeks off and then get her ready for the Albury Cup," Beer, who now trains in partnership with George Carpenter, said.

"She gets in really well at the weights for the Albury Cup and Wagga Cup too and they're black type races.

"Just looking at the calendar, there's a Benchmark 78 in five weeks at Randwick over 2000 metres and you've got that Summer Cup as well, but I just don't think we need to launch her into the deep end yet."

Formerly trained in Victoria by Ciaron Maher, Beer reports the trick to keeping Geemes happy is simple – don't make her work too hard.

"She's just continued to improve the more we've got to know her and one thing we realised pretty early on is that you don't have to do too much work with her," Beer said.

Geemes was dominant winning at Rosehill on Saturday. Picture: Jeremy Ng – Getty Images

"The key with her yesterday was her being a month between runs and going to 2000 metres and it's obviously not textbook, but it's something that works for her.

"We train her like a sprinter, so it keeps that freshness in her legs and she really thrives off it."