Winning Horse: Real Sensation (Aus)

5yoG Real Impact (Jpn) - My Thriller (Aus)(Artie Schiller (USA))

18 starts - 3 wins 2 seconds 3 thirds 2 fourths $308100

Other Wins

1st Flemington Raaf Centenary Hcp 1400m (2021)

1st Stawell Stawell Grampians Caravan Mdn 1600m (2021)

Other Placings

3rd Sandown-Hillside Tile Importer (Bm70) 1800m (2022)

3rd Sandown-Hillside Ladbrokes Same Race Multi-Bm70 1600m (2022)

3rd Pakenham Racing.Com Vobis Gold Bullion 1400m (2021)

2nd Horsham Manhari Metals (Bm70) 1400m (2021)

2nd Moonee Valley Powerflo Sol. Vobis Gold Reef 1600m (2021)

Race Result:

1st: Real Sensation (Jame Mott/Luke Oliver) - $9.50

2nd: Corona Lad (Blake Shinn/Nathan Dunn) - $3.90F
3rd: Drop The Mic (Alisa Hinch/Lewis German) - $26

Winning Time: 1:28.02 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: ½ Head x Nose

Winning Trainer: Luke Oliver

“He prepped up for the race really well. Jame came down on Saturday morning and galloped him and he came an trialed him a couple of weeks ago at Cranbourne. Once they announced this race we thought he’d be a good horse to target for it.

“Probably as the rain came we lost a bit of confidence first-up having not done a stack of work. E gets through the wet but certainly doesn’t love it so I thought about 200 (metres) out he was all out but he always wants to find the line though and it’s a great result.

Cup Carnival Country Series Final: “We’ll look to go to a heat of that now. He had blinkers on for the first time and when Jamie came down on Saturday and we put the blinkers on in a gallop he said ‘you might be saying after Wednesady that we should have put these on 12 months ago’.

“I said I’m happy to look like a fool if that is the case and I’m glad it worked out like that.”

Winning Jockey: Jamie Mott

“Even going to the barriers you could see there’s plenty of moisture in the ground. It has really opened up now with five races on it.”

Blinkers: “He should have been putting them on last year, I’d have suggested the same thing. I trialed him this preparation and those half-mile trials at Cranbourne they go really quick and he was 20 lengths off them.

“He felt so good in his last furlong and I said to Luke if you put the shades on him he might be a bit more tractable and it should be a winning result.

“Lucky enough the conditions really probably didn’t suit him but he was too good.”