Thunder Warning as O'Shea and Charlton chase stakes double

Trainers John O'Shea and Tom Charlton will be keen to bolster their big-race team for The Championships when promising three-year-olds King Of Thunder and Snow In May race at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.

King Of Thunder is the $3.60 TAB Fixed Odds favourite for the Group 2 $300,000 Tulloch Stakes (2000m). O'Shea said King Of Thunder is being primed for the Group 1 $2 million ATC Australian Derby (2400m) at Royal Randwick on April 5.

Both three-year-olds go to Rosehill as last start winners – King Of Thunder winning over 1900m at Rosehill two weeks ago and Snow In May taking out the Listed Canberra Guineas earlier this month.

O'Shea described King Of Thunder as "a genuine staying three-year-old."

"It's the reason we went second-up to 1900m with him," O'Shea said.

"He's done well since, we are very happy with him and all going well he will back-up in the Derby."

Since the Tulloch Stakes was first run in 1973, nine winners of this race have trained on to win the Derby including five this century – Quick Thinker (2020), Angel Of Truth (2019), Levendi (2018), Jon Snow (2017) and Starcraft (2004).