This G2 1200m for juvenile fillies only saw the most experienced runner on raceday and the only dual race winner in the field namely Gold Fever score narrowly. The start was definitely not a good line away at all as so many runners copped strife and trouble and the stipes report contained severe checking and/or crowding for a couple plus awkward starts for a pair and a coming together (contact) for another duo. Half the field suffered, found or met trouble at the start. The local filly Gold Fever was sixth the outer going easily then got sent up before the home turn fifth centre track but not too far away at all and with a head full of steam. She strode up at the 200m and led soon after but a rival that had come with her around the home turn made it a ding-donger the final 100m. In the end Gold Fever won by a head in 1:10.04 to record her third win in five starts and win her first blacktype event having been third at G3 two starts ago on New Years Day. In her last start before today she beat Joyfilly by threequarters of a length and she also finished runner up today. The maiden filly had been a distant fifth on debut behind Aim Smart (a big flop in the Listed colts and geldings feature earlier in the card) but the runner up in that same race Summer Passage won the boys feature today and ran a length and a half faster time than this. The form stacks up then crumbles so is a untrustable at the moment. Excelleration was a distant third in that race Joyfilly was a distant fifth and she ran in this today and ended up ninth beaten seven and a half lengths, so has lost eight and a half lengths somehow. Joyfilly sat fifth then moved up fourth turning for home one-width less out than the winner. She surged at the same time and made it a ding-donger at the 100m only to be done narrowly. Santuzza was on the speed early and led after 250m and had a good buffer across the top only to be hauled in soon after they passed the 200m mark. She fought on okay to just hold third but was beaten nearly three lengths and has good speed but needs to go up a notch and show genuine fight. Princess Rihanna was on the early speed then sat in second chasing before working off near the home turn. She was trying hard at the 200m but had her chance and only just missed third spot and the G2 blacktype. Nothin’ On Me was not too bad for a maiden (she was Listed placed on debut) and should enjoy a distance rise. Florence Jean was clearly checked and crowded to be last initially so running on for sixth beaten four lengths was more than honest all things considered. She like a few can have this outing forgotten. Miss Foxy Gal ran on late from ninth but was over six lengths from the winner. Short Fuse weakened after sitting fourth the inner while Excelleration was poor and she may be just a clockwise filly at the moment. Belle Du Nord and Excelleration came together at the start so both settled back and neither got into the race at all. Ujjayyi the favourite was disgraceful and in fact her stablemate in the colts and geldings Listed event flopped big time too worryingly. This filly had bolted in clockwise on debut and today sat third but never copped the left-handed way of going and ran off before the home turn losing all chance. She will need to trial before racing this direction again so is likely to stick to right-handed racing, if given the all clear after this bad display of hanging. Onezerofive was clearly checked at the start and became tailed off and down to a walk to be beaten over forty-six lengths. She lost her left-front plate and was found to be jarred up post race too. The form of some of the juveniles this season is all over the place and nothing yet has stood up to keep beating the others or certainly there is no showing of dominance at this stage. It may well come with two G1 events (one clockwise and the other left-handed) but at the moment the formlines cannot be trusted as too erratic.
Previous Winners
Date | Horse | Jockey | WT | Trainer | BP |
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GOLD RUSH
(NZ)
2F SO YOU THINK (NZ) - GOLD ROCKS (AUS) ORATORIO (AUS) |
C J GRYLLS | 56.5 | LANCE O'SULLIVAN & ANDREW SCOTT | 5 |
|
SERENA MISS
(NZ)
2F IFFRAAJ (GB) - GIFTED LASS (AUS) MORE THAN READY (USA) |
L G INNES | 56.5 | GRAEME & DEBBIE ROGERSON | 5 |
|
LADY ROYALE
(NZ)
2F CAPTAIN RIO (GB) - CACKLES (AUS) CATBIRD (AUS) |
S C SPRATT | 56.5 | RICHARD COLLETT & GARETH MCRAE | 6 |
|
RECITE
(NZ)
2F DARCI BRAHMA (NZ) - CHANT (NZ) TRADITIONALLY (USA) |
MARK DU PLESSIS | 56.5 | JOHN BARY | 1 |
|
ANABANDANA
(AUS)
2F ANABAA (USA) - GREAT NOTICE (USA) NUREYEV (USA) |
O P BOSSON | 56.0 | D SELLWOOD | 1 |
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BANCHEE
(NZ)
2F ORATORIO (IRE) - MISS JESSIE JAY (NZ) SPECTACULARPHANTOM (USA) |
L G INNES | 56.0 | J G SARGENT | 14 |
|
TE AKAU ROSE
(NZ)
2F THORN PARK (AUS) - STRAUSSBRIDGE (NZ) STRAUSSBROOK (AUS) |
T N HARRIS | 56.0 | MARK WALKER | 2 |
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TE AKAU COUP
(NZ)
2F THORN PARK (AUS) - BEYOND THE SUNSET (USA) GONE WEST (USA) |
J L WADDELL | 56.0 | MARK WALKER | 1 |
|
SATINKA
(NZ)
2F STRAVINSKY (USA) - MISS SAIGON (NZ) KINGS ISLAND (IRE) |
MARK DU PLESSIS | 56.0 | LANCE O'SULLIVAN & ANDREW SCOTT | 6 |
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NATURO
(NZ)
2F POSTPONED (USA) - RUBITON'S BEST (AUS) RUBITON (AUS) |
J L WADDELL | 56.0 | J G SARGENT | 1 |
|
MI JUBILEE
(NZ)
2F HOWBADDOUWANTIT (USA) - MI STEEL (NZ) MI PREFERIDO (USA) |
DAVID WALKER | 55.0 | STEPHEN CRUTCHLEY | 8 |
|
VELASCO
(AUS)
2F FLYING SPUR (AUS) - VITAL CURVES (NZ) MCGINTY (NZ) |
A CALDER | 55.0 | B TANKARD | 8 |
|
KATANA
(NZ)
2F VOLKSRAAD (GB) - TRISTEAN (NZ) SIR TRISTRAM (IRE) |
M T COLEMAN | 55.0 | M MORONEY & A SCOTT | 10 |
|
LADY DEHERE
(NZ)
2F DEHERE (USA) - EXPRESS A SMILE (AUS) SUCCESS EXPRESS (USA) |
M C SWEENEY | 55.0 | GRAEME & DEBBIE SANDERS | 8 |
|
FLYING BABE
(AUS)
2F FLYING SPUR (AUS) - CAST YOUR FATE (AUS) BLETCHINGLY (AUS) |
L A O'SULLIVAN | 55.0 | COLIN & RICHARD YUILL | 3 |
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CONQUISTAR
(NZ)
2F DANASINGA (AUS) - THE STREET (NZ) AMYNTOR (FR) |
M T COLEMAN | 55.0 | MICHAEL MORONEY | 1 |