R9 HASTINGS | 06 October 2012 |
Spring Classic G1 3U OPEN ($239,000), 2040m 2:04.89 | |
Race Synopsis: The older runners came through under WFA here at the 2040m and no surprise in a field of many suspect middle distance types that the proven stayer in Shez Sinsational delivered.
She rediscovered her best form and basically outstayed them the closing stages in what is not looking a serious G1 form for stamina regarding many of the beaten brigade.
The winning time of 2:04.809 in the seventeen runnings of this race as a G1 event is just the thirteenth best time and considering the amount of runners that dropped out that is alarming.
Shez Sinsational was winning her fourth G1 race today and she is the sixth different mare to win the race (they have won it seven times) since it became top shelf.
The last mare to win the race was Princess Coup in 2008 and she won it the year before too.
The strength of New Zealand racing and the way a whole season is set up does favour the female gallopers by an enormous amount.
Six of the first seven home today were mares and the lone male in the finish was the five-year-old He’s Remarkable.
Winning rider Opie Bosson was winning this for the third time after Princess Coup (2008) and Distinctly Secret (2003).
On a day of some decent times this was perhaps one of the more below average clockings.
The jury is still out on whether the runner up Guiseppina and fourth finisher Xanadu are middle distance horses or in fact quality sprinter-milers that can make the step up against this depth of line up.
Dolmabache has a big race win in her this season on such a good effort and she has the size too.
Quintessential was cost a higher finish by a wide draw but the way she went suggests a good summer and autumn at home looms.
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FP | Horse Age & Sex | Trainer Jockey | WT SP | |||||||
1st | 7. SHEZ SINSATIONAL (NZ) 5yo Mare | ALLAN SHARROCK OPPIE BOSSON | 57.0 $8.90 | |||||||
EKRAAR (USA) - ORIGINAL SIN (NZ) | ||||||||||
A A Baeyertz, J P Goodin, G A Macdonald, G H Phillips & R W Sharrock | 2nd | 9. GUISEPPINA (NZ) 6yo Mare | STEVEN RAMSAY & JULIA RITCHIE JONATHAN RIDDELL | 57.0 $10.20 | ||||||
JOHAR (USA) - BATTOCCHI (NZ) | ||||||||||
P J Vela Onzm & P M Vela | 3rd | 3. HE'S REMARKABLE (NZ) 5yo Horse | R JAMES VIN COLGAN | 59.0 $5.10 | ||||||
PENTIRE (GB) - AXIOM (NZ) | ||||||||||
G G Ltd Syndicate (Mgr: G G Peterson), J B Struthers & R S Baulcomb | ||||||||||
Jan 09, 2009 Premier Yearling Sale, Matamata New Zealand, $360000, MR RA JAMES, CAMBRIDGE | ||||||||||
4th | 15. XANADU (NZ) 4yo Mare | KEN & BEV KELSO MICHAEL COLEMAN | 55.5 $4.10 | |||||||
5th | 14. DOLMABACHE (NZ) 5yo Mare | STEVEN RAMSAY & JULIA RITCHIE JASON WADDELL | 57.0 $90.30 | |||||||
6th | 16. QUINTESSENTIAL (NZ) 4yo Mare | J G SARGENT DAMIEN BROWNE | 55.5 $6.80 | |||||||
7th | 11. ZENNISTA (NZ) 5yo Mare | LISA LATTA DARRYL BRADLEY | 57.0 $41.40 | |||||||
8th | 8. FLEUR DE LUNE (NZ) 5yo Mare | LEE SOMERVELL JASON JAGO | 57.0 $15.20 | |||||||
9th | 1. GREEN SUPREME (AUS) 6yo Gelding | GRAHAM RICHARDSON MARK DU PLESSIS | 59.0 $20.10 | |||||||
10th | 10. POSTMANS DAUGHTER (NZ) 5yo Mare | DON WALKER DANIELLE JOHNSON | 57.0 $14.90 | |||||||
11th | 12. VILLIFYE (NZ) 5yo Mare | GRAHAM RICHARDSON CRAIG GRYLLS | 57.0 $71.90 | |||||||
12th | 2. BACK IN BLACK (NZ) 7yo Gelding | J J STEFFERT SAM SPRATT | 59.0 $33.90 | |||||||
13th | 13. ART BEAT (NZ) 6yo Mare | VANESSA HILLIS NOEL HARRIS | 57.0 $41.60 | |||||||
14th | 4. FLEMINGTON (NZ) 7yo Gelding | LUCY TANNER MARK HILLS | 59.0 $54.00 | |||||||
15th | 5. FEARS NOTHING (NZ) 7yo Gelding | DAVID HAWORTH & MATT DIXON HAYDEN TINSLEY | 59.0 $53.10 | |||||||
16th | 6. CARRICK (NZ) 4yo Gelding | TONY PIKE & MARK DONOGHUE LEITH INNES | 57.5 $13.90 |
The 2012 running of the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Spring Classic.
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