The Alice Springs-trained filly Desert Lashes remains unbeaten in eight starts, stepping up to win this stakes race in impressive fashion. She was quickly away, went straight to the front and then settled nicely. She grabbed a break on turning for home and was not threatened from that point to score impressively, dashing home in 33.62 (last 600m). Balancing Act was smartly away and then settled behind the leader. She was in clear running at the 200m and then fought on nicely for second, finding the winner too good. So You Too settled in sixth place, between runners, was shuffled back a bit nearing the home turn, got deeper and into clear running at the 200m and did well in running on nicely for third. El Divino was seventh in the early stages before improving (deep) at the 700m. He went to third (three wide) at the home turn and then battled on in the straight for (3 lengths) fourth.
Previous Winners
| Date | Horse | Jockey | WT | Trainer | BP |
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DON'T DOUBT MAMMA
(AUS)
3F NOT A SINGLE DOUBT (AUS) - COCONUT MAMMA (AUS) FANTASTIC LIGHT (USA) |
J HOLDER | 56.5 | TONY MCEVOY | 4 |
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ECLAIR CHOICE
(AUS)
3G CALIFORNIA DANE (AUS) - BOUNCE (AUS) WOODMAN (USA) |
D TOURNEUR | 57.0 | PHILLIP STOKES | 13 |
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MINAJ
(NZ)
3F COMMANDS (AUS) - MS SENECA ROCK (USA) SENECA JONES (USA) |
V DURIC | 56.0 | ANTHONY FREEDMAN | 2 |
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AGULHAS
(AUS)
3F EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) - ARCTIC DRIFT (USA) GONE WEST (USA) |
J NOONAN | 54.0 | PETER SNOWDEN | 6 |
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CELEBRITY GIRL
(AUS)
3F STARCRAFT (NZ) - DASHING GRANADA (AUS) KELTRICE (AUS) |
M RODD | 57.0 | MARK KAVANAGH | 10 |
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HOONESS
(AUS)
3F EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) - SPECTRUM'S IMAGE (AUS) SPECTRUM (IRE) |
A SPITERI | 55.0 | JASON PETCH | 5 |
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CARDINAL VIRTUE
(AUS)
3C ELUSIVE QUALITY (USA) - VALOURINA (AUS) SNIPPETS (AUS) |
M ALLEN | 56.0 | D L FREEDMAN | 2 |
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VICTORY CHANT
(AUS)
3G GENERAL NEDIYM (AUS) - CLASSIC STATUS (AUS) MARSCAY (AUS) |
C LINDOP | 56.5 | LEON MACDONALD | 11 |
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MISS FANTABULOUS
(AUS)
3F ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) - MISS CHANEL (AUS) SPLENDENT (USA) |
G BOSS | 55.0 | MATHEW ELLERTON | 9 |
