Winning Horse: Duchess Of Dorset (Aus)

5yoM Canford Cliffs (Ire) - Commands Gold (Aus)(Commands (Aus))

6 starts - 4 wins 1 third 1 fourth $159390

Other Wins

1st Bendigo Catanach's Jewellers (Bm64) 1100m (2021)

1st Warrnambool Star Printing (Bm64) 1000m (2021)

1st Stawell Tac Drink. Driving. Apart Mdn 1100m (2021) (Debut Run)

Other Placings

3rd Flemington World Horse Racing Grand-Bm80 1100m (2021)

Race Result:

1st: Duchess Of Dorset (L Meech/S Wilde) - $1.90F

2nd: Way To Go Paula (B Prebble/P Stokes) - $9
3rd: Ladies Of London (T Stockdale/L Smith) - $26

Winning Time: 1:11.16 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: 2½L x Short Neck

Winning Trainer: Symon Wilde

“It was pretty painless. I said this morning and even post-race, she’s such a reliable horse. She’s bombproof.

“In everything she does. She conserves her energy travelling up here and is a lovely quiet horse. She’s got good gate speed, settles well and she’s just a really good racehorse.

“I think she’s stakes quality. Her run at Flemington and probably highlighted that. A listed race or a Group 3 mares race is definitely not beyond her.

“And the way she races, putting herself in great positions, she’ll get her chance. It might be over in Adelaide, I’m not sure but she’s definitely stakes quality.”

“This horse had colic surgery which is why she hasn’t done a lot of racing and thankfully she did get that done because she’s got a really nice mare on her hands.

Owner: “Marg Lucas, she’s a great racing person from our area and I’m so pleased for her that she’s got a nice horse.

Winning Jockey: Linda Meech

“She actually had me a bit worried today. She got on the bridle quite fierce to the gates and she wasn’t herself behind them. But she’s a little beauty. She relaxes, she jumps, she puts herself in a spot and goes again.

“She was really only going half pace up the straight so I don’t know where the bottom of her is but hopefully there’s some black type coming her way.

“It wasn’t the plan at Bendigo to lead but today they went a good strong gallop and she was happy to take a sit behind them and she’s very tractable.”