Winning Horse: Amade (IRE)

7yoG Casamento (Ire) - Sheba Five (USA)(Five Star Day (USA))

15 starts - 9 wins 2 seconds 1 third 1 fourth $576371

Black Type Wins

1st G2 Usa - Belmont Park Belmont Gold Cup Invitational S. 3219m (2019)

Black Type Placings

Other Wins

1st Chelmsford Bet Totequadpot At Totesport.Com Conditions Stakes 3219m (2019)

1st Gb - Kempton Park Aw 32Red Handicap 3217m (2019)

1st Deauville Aw Prix Du Val Henry 3400m (2018)

1st Marseille Vivaux Prix De La Gineste 3100m (2018)

1st Dax Prix Des Tuileries 3000m (2018)

1st Lyon La Soie Aw Prix A. De Kertanguy 2150m (2017)

1st Lyon La Soie Aw Prix Le Frimeur 2400m (2017)

Race Result:

1st: Amade (P Stokes/B Allen) - $5.50

2nd: Mohican Heights (C Waller/M Walker) - $4.40
3rd: Mawaany Machine (Maher & Eustace/B Egan) - $41

Winning Time: 2:44.75 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: 1¾L x ¾L

Winning Trainer: Phillip Stokes

“It’s been a long trip with this horse. A big thank you to OTI for giving him to us to start with.

“He won the Belmont Gold Cup in New York then he went amiss. He did a pelvis, he did a tendon, it’s been a very big rehabilitation with 12 months off the scene. We’ve just brought him along very slowly. Full credit to my team back at Pakenham, they’ve done a fantastic job.

“To get a result like this second-up is better than expected.

“He’s been with our team for quite a while but he’s been with our team for about a year. He was down at Warrnambool doing a bit of rehabilitation work and it’s just good that he’s come this far this quickly.

“He’s been a very sound horse back at the stable. I think when he came into the mounting yard last time he was called a fat pig! He’s done a good job.

“(After) his work on Tuesday, we walked away scratching our heads, it was very ordinary. He’s a real raceday horse.”

Can’t go to Ramsden being a seven-year-old: “I’m probably going to have to send him to the paddock for a break now and try and set him for a Melbourne Cup.”

Winning Jockey: Ben Allen

“It’s a good training effort second-up and to 2600 metres. How strong he was to the line is a credit to the team. I began well, I was going to sit outside of Mawaany Machine and then the opportunity came to sit in behind him and he gave me the perfect run and just went at a good gallop which really suited my bloke.

“That’s probably how all staying races should be run and that benefited from me in the end. I just state behind him and peeled out on the corner. I gave him a squeeze and he went super to the line.

“He’s a quirky horse. I did his final gallop before coming here. They’ve done a good job and they’ve worked him out.”