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Riccarton Park Results (Race 8)

Saturday, 18th November 2017

8
15:10
(local)

Gavelhouse.Com Nz 1000 Guineas (G1)

Age: 3yo Sex: F Type: OPEN
NZD $300,000
1600m TURF GOOD
8
15:10
(local)
NZD $300,000
1600m GOOD

Gavelhouse.Com Nz 1000 Guineas (G1)

Age: 3yo Sex: F Type: OPEN

The G1 1600m for 3yo fillies only had an on odds on pop puncture badly the final 100m and finish out of the money, while the winner at $23 surged home to slaughter her rivals by a big margin. The iffy track presented today clearly was over-watered as the inside collapsed very early on and to be called a Good3 seemed somewhat ironic when vast numbers each race were deliberately steered to the middle of the track turning for home. It looks absurd on a fine day and a Good3 posted when 80% or more of fields are angled well away from the inside knowing it is a go slow zone and anchoring (tiring quickly) runners whose riders are foolish enough to tempt factual evidence and fate. Hasahalo had been going better than her two runs suggested this time in and she picked a fine time to show her best today with the most devastating win possible. She settled back ninth or tenth and when angled wide for better lanes the run home detonated with a huge boom and was unleashing so fast she reached third at the 200m and then led 50m later. Hasahalo had up such a head full of steam she powered right away to win by four lengths in 1:35.63, which incredibly was the exact time the only other mile event on the card ran in the last race for Ratings 75 older gallopers. It was her second win in nine starts and the G1 romp in goes with a G3 win, a G2 and a Listed placing achieved last season as a juvenile. Dijon Bleu ran a sound second after being crowded early but recovering eighth the inner and in fact was one spot ahead of her conqueror for much of the race. She got off the inside importantly across the top and improved wide near the home turn to reach fourth turning in but got windburn soon after as the winner screamed past her. Dijon Bleu showed she could handle a mile and cope on better footing albeit there was no concrete ground today but she still got beaten four lengths and that is a thrashing at this level. The Lustre at $111 for the win was a game third after being one spot ahead of the two that beat her home on settling but she was steered wider across the top. She turned for home sixth and kept coming to get third the closing stages beaten just under five lengths. Her stablemate The Sparkle at $35 ran a sound fourth after being fifth the outer most of the way and she was just over five lengths from the winner. Swing Note settled back and then came up seventh turning for home but did not ping and rather one-batted but she kept on to finish fifth and was just over half a length from third. Pierrocity was a better sixth beaten five and three-quarters of a length than it may first register as she was on the pace early and went up second the outer midrace. The big filly was still fourth at the 200m and never chucked it in at all plus she was the first runner home from on the pace by a telling three lengths at the line. Contessa Vanessa was tardy and settled well back before turning for home last only to run on not too badly and she is a winner in waiting. Lubaya was tardy and last on her own mostly before going wide across the top and she came up the deepest and some seven-wide before the home turn,’ She kept coming like an Oaks filly for a meritorious eighth beaten seven lengths. The odds on Prom Queen finished ninth beaten just under nine lengths and she disappointed in many ways but things did go against her too. The start was like most races on the day running very late and she loaded in relatively early so was waiting for over a minute in the barriers and then she blundered at the start before quickly showing her agile speed to lead. She got taken on early before her rider elected to take the trail and from this point onwards she was trapped in the prison of slow lanes. Prom Queen shot through closest in turning for home and led soon after plus put a break on them at the 200m only to wobble and weaken once caught and headed into third at the 100m,. The awful inside lanes by this time of the day anchored an already tired filly and she stopped like a pricked balloon. She did not run the mile out so will be a sprinting force only once back from a well deserved break and she might give some older horses a scare at WFA with a big pull under that scale. Hot Fuss was in the rear trio and plugged on closer in the slow lanes so better than at first glance for that important track bias fact. Malambo was wide on the pace attacking then took the lead after 600m before folding badly the run home and was beaten almost fourteen lengths. The rest were outclassed. Hasahalo was so superior today that you wonder how good some are actually behind her and how could they beat her again unless the trips got too far. As a measure of improvement the runner up today beaten four lengths in Dijon Bleu on wet ground won at G3 in September and ninth beaten almost eight lengths that day was none other than Hasahalo. The turnaround today on better footing and at a mile has staggeringly been a dozen lengths. Lubaya is one the best maidens around at the moment that is yet to pay a dividend on raceday and in fact in four starts she has finished sixth, sixth, eighth and eighth. Pierrocity has the physique to attain Blacktype this season. Hasahalo though looks the dominant filly in the country at the moment after such an emphatic win but a big asterisk is still in place because this 3yo season for both male and female has had dreadful wet tracks for the first three months of it.

Previous Winners

Date Horse Jockey WT Trainer BP
LA BELLA DIOSA (NZ) 3F
SO YOU THINK (NZ) - STAR AFFAIR (NZ) STAR WAY (GB)
R CUNEEN 56.5 MANDY & MATT BROWN 9
RISQUE (NZ) 3F
DARCI BRAHMA (NZ) - SO EXPLICIT (NZ) STRAIGHT STRIKE (USA)
M CAMERON 56.5 STEPHEN AUTRIDGE 3
COSTA VIVA (AUS) 3F
ENCOSTA DE LAGO (AUS) - VIVACIOUS SPIRIT (AUS) BEL ESPRIT (AUS)
L G INNES 56.5 JASON BRIDGMAN 8
ROLLOUT THE CARPET (AUS) 3F
HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) - OUT OF EGYPT (USA) RED RANSOM (USA)
MARK DU PLESSIS 56.5 JEFF MCVEAN & EMMA-LEE BROWNE 11
PLANET ROCK (AUS) 3F
FASTNET ROCK (AUS) - AKRIS (NZ) ZABEEL (NZ)
H S TINSLEY 56.0 PETER & DAWN WILLIAMS 12
KING'S ROSE (NZ) 3F
REDOUTE'S CHOICE (AUS) - NUREYEV'S GIRL (AUS) NUREYEV (USA)
O P BOSSON 56.0 JASON BRIDGMAN 9
KATIE LEE (AUS) 3F
PINS (AUS) - MISS JESSIE JAY (NZ) SPECTACULARPHANTOM (USA)
O P BOSSON 56.0 GRAEME & DEBBIE ROGERSON 4
DAFFODIL (NZ) 3F
NO EXCUSE NEEDED (GB) - SPRING (NZ) O'REILLY (NZ)
H S TINSLEY 56.0 KEVIN GRAY 3
INSOUCIANT (NZ) 3F
KEEPER (AUS) - LOUDENNE (NZ) PALACE MUSIC (USA)
M J WALKER 56.0 MARK WALKER 9
DORABELLA (NZ) 3F
POSTPONED (USA) - CASERIO (NZ) KAAPSTAD (NZ)
J S BULLARD 56.0 HOWIE & LORRAINE MATHEWS 1
SEACHANGE (NZ) 3F
CAPE CROSS (IRE) - JUST CRUISING (AUS) BROAD REACH (NZ)
G MCKEON 55.5 R R MANNING 13
JUSTA TAD (NZ) 3F
ISTIDAAD (USA) - INFINITY (NZ) MARKELLA (FR)
V A COLGAN 55.5 RUDY LIEFTING 9
TAATLETAIL (NZ) 3F
FALTAAT (USA) - DEFENSIVE LADY (NZ) DEFENSIVE PLAY (USA)
M J WALKER 55.5 GRAEME ROGERSON & STEPHEN AUTRIDGE 4
THE JEWEL (NZ) 3F
O'REILLY (NZ) - THE GRIN (NZ) GROSVENOR (NZ)
J D LAKING 55.5 HEC & STEVE ANDERTON 7
FINAL DESTINATION (NZ) 3F
O'REILLY (NZ) - LOGICAL LADY (NZ) SOUND REASON (CAN)
G J GRYLLS 55.5 WAYNE & VANESSA HILL 7
ELEVENSES (NZ) 3F
STAR WAY (GB) - CELTIC JOY (NZ) SIR TRISTRAM (IRE)
M C SWEENEY 55.5 GRAEME & DEBBIE SANDERS 2