Alma's Fury primed for Railway Stakes despite poor barrier draw Wide draw: Alma's Fury has the outside gate of 18 for Saturday's Railway Stakes in Perth. Photo: Sylvia Liber Alma's Fury comes out of what might be the strongest form race of the Melbourne spring for what has become his ultimate goal, the Railway Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. The only frustration for trainer Tony Gollan since arriving in Perth has been drawing barrier 18 in the group 1 weight-for-age mile. The draw was really disappointing. He has travelled so well and looks great, but it will be tough from out there," Gollan said. His runs in Melbourne suggest that he is in the right sort of form to come over here and give this race a shake, but when you get a draw like that it doesn't help. He has travelled like an old pro and settled in really well, and everything is pointing to him running really well. Gollan decided to target the Perth carnival early in the spring when he weighed up the strength of the milers in Melbourne. The decision was made after Alma's Fury finished down the track in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. So he stuck to 1400 metres to have him primed for this group 1 assignment. "It looked a strong year for milers after the Rupert Clarke and I knew this [race] was an option and it fitted into a preparation with him," Gollan said. I kept him to 1400 metres in Melbourne to have him at his top for this race. He thrives on three weeks between runs, so he went to the Weekend Hussler where he got caught wide and just kept coming, then the 1400 metres on Derby Day, which is the strongest form race you could find. Alma's Fury ran fourth at Caulfield beaten three-quarters of a length, looming to win despite his wide passage, but it is run in the Yellowglen Stakes at Flemington that should draw punters' focus. Alma's Fury was runner-up to subsequent Emirates Stakes winner Hucklebuck, beaten three-quarters of a length, with Generalife and Pornichet filling the positions behind him. Generalife was narrowly beaten in the Kevin Heffernan Stakes at Sandown last week, while Pornichet won the Sandown Stakes on the same program. "Everything around him from that race has come out and franked the form; it makes you feel confident," Gollan said. I have no doubt he will run a strong mile. He won a Bernborough Stakes before he came to me. I know that is a couple of grades down on this but he has been there and done it, and has also been placed at 2000 metres. I have wanted to get him to a mile and this is the day. Michael Rodd will travel to Perth to take the ride on Alma's Fury, which has drifted from $11 to $13 at Ladbrokes since the draw. The Cleaner is also on the drift but remains a $4.60 favourite ahead of the Grant Williams-trained pair Respondent at $6.50 and Elite Belle at $7.50. Mr Moet, the winner of the Railway two years when first-up from a spell, will attempt to repeat the feat and is rated a $13 chance.