Training double to Patrick Payne and Symon Wilde along with riding doubles to Billy Egan and Damien Thornton were the highlights on Golden Mile Day at Bendigo.
“She’s good. I think if there’s enough horse there then we can go to Adelaide and run in the Nitschke Stakes, Listed 1400 metres for three-year-olds at Morphettville on April 24. That’ll do her, I’d say,” Price said. “We never intended to go too deep into her prep and she can have a nice spell. The older she gets the better she’ll get.” Winning rider Mark Zahra had the luxury of sitting up on the filly as he crossed the line. “It was easy. Dylan (Dunn, Air Defence) was keen to lead inside me and she was a bit keen in the first bit. If I started to cross him I wouldn’t have been sure that I could get her back. So I just had to fight her a little bit early and once we went a little bit quicker she was beautiful,” Zahra said.
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