Winning Horse: Corner Pocket (Aus)

4yoG Toronado (Ire) - Baize (Aus)(Commands (Aus))

8 starts - 6 wins 1 second 1 third $182858

Other Wins

1st Sandown-Lakeside Ladbrokes Same Race Multi-Bm78 1400m (2021)

1st Warrnambool Warrnambool Volkswagen (Bm70) 1400m (2021)

1st Ballarat Hygain Winners Choice (Bm70) 1200m (2021)

1st Moonee Valley Mvrc Corporate Membership (C1) 1200m (2020)

1st Hamilton Bet365 Odds Drift Protect. Mdn 1200m (2020)

Other Placings

3rd Ballarat Cervus Equipment Mdn Plate 1000m (2020)

2nd Ballarat Sam Miranda Mdn Plate 1000m (2020) (Debut Run)

Race Result:

1st: Corner Pocket (D Bates/L Smith) - $3.40F

2nd: Mr Tipla (L Currie/T Busuttin & N Young) - $10
3rd: Fundraiser (M Zahra/B & JD Hayes) - $7.50

Winning Time: 1:29.06 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: 2¼L x ½L

Winning Trainer: Lindsey Smith (rep by Shane Jackson)

“He improves a bit every time. He only just does - he did plenty today - but he does enough to win by a length every day and he keeps improving. Declan gave him a lovely ride and you love having him in the stable.

“I think the (picket) fence is getting plenty long now. Lindsey will look after this horse and he might have a little rest. That’s his jurisdiction. He makes the plans and he places this horse perfectly.

“He scratched him from Sandown on a heavy track that day to protect his form which he has done. The plan worked out to a tee. We’ll just keep ticking away. It’s great.”

Winning Jockey: Declan Bates

“You’d have to say that he’s probably lifted his game again. Every time we raise the bar he makes the jump to that next level and I wouldn’t mind a few more like him.

“This is probably the first day where I was a bit concerned in the run how things were going. He didn’t come out flying so I gave him a little squeeze to get going, to be in a forward spot. I left my options open so that if some of them wanted to go a good gallop I could take a sit but because I gave him that bit of a squeeze he was just running in my hands the whole way today and I had one inside of me.

“I was just a bit concerned that he wasn’t quite relaxed like he normally can sure enough but when he came under pressure and I asked, he found plenty. He’s obviously a good horse.

“It is hard to say but he hasn’t beaten anything quality yet but he just keeps winning. Today is the first day where I felt that he actually might be even better than I thought. He absorbed pressure, ran a bit keen in my hands, and still kicked. A good performance.”