Winning Horse: Arkansaw Kid (Aus)

2yoC Harry Angel (Ire) - Florabella (Aus)(Exceed And Excel (Aus))

1 starts - 1 wins $300000

Race Result:

1st: Arkansaw Kid (D Oliver/B & J Hayes) - $2.60F

2nd: Mexico (J McDonald/M Freedman) - $4
3rd: Optume (Mark Zahra/Ben & JD Hayes) - $16

Winning Time: 1:01.62 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: ½L x 1¼ L

Winning Trainer: Ben & JD Hayes (Ben speaking)

“Such a great initiative by Inglis to pick up $200,000 just for jumping out the gates. Huge for the owners - they’ve already paid for the horse in one run and he’s already well paid them now.

“He did a lot wrong. He was three wide, off the bit and didn’t really look to handle The Valley but I think his class runs through the line.

“JD and I have had runners in the first four two-year-old races and won two of them.”

Nice future ahead: “Last year we might have got our two-year-olds a bit wrong. We changed a lot of things around and used Dad’s way of training and I think it is working from what we can see so far.

“All of our two-year-olds are a lot more sharper so it is really exciting and I think this guy has ability and a good start for (sire) Harry Angel.”

Winning Jockey: Damien Oliver

“It was a good effort. He trialed nicely for me but that was on a synthetic track so I wasn’t sure about him in the heavy conditions.

“He’s still learning, he’s still a bit new and I didn’t want to ride him too pretty and havine him get a bit lost and have to chase. I wanted to just keep him focused and stay not too far off the leaders so I could keep his momentum going.

“He’s got nice scope, he’s got nice length about him. He’s not just an early two-year-old, I think, so the future is good for him.”