Winning Horse: Snapper (Nz)

5yoG Power (GB) - Onlyarose (NZ)(One Cool Cat (USA))

20 starts - 5 wins 2 seconds 2 thirds 1 fourth $304663

Black Type Placings

3rd G3 Matamata Waikato Stud Slipper 1200m (2020)

Other Wins

1st Moonee Valley Powerflo Solutions (Bm70) 1200m (2022)

1st Moonee Valley Rule Prostate Cancer (Bm70) 1200m (2022)

1st Moonee Valley Midway Concrete Kingdom (Bm64) 1200m (2021)

1st Moonee Valley Behind The Barriers Mdn Plate 1200m (2021)

Other Placings

3rd Pakenham Sammy Myors On Sportsbet-Bm70 1200m (2022)

2nd Sandown-Hillside Ladbrokes Punter Assist (Bm78) 1000m (2021)

2nd Moonee Valley Sun Stud Emma Boling Plate 1200m (2021)

Race Result:

1st: Snapper (Jordan Childs/Michael Moroney) - $21

2nd: Najem Suhail (Mark Zahra/Robbie Griffiths & Mathew De Kock) - $5.50
3rd: Hypothetical (Ben Melham/Anthony & Sam Freedman) - $8

Winning Time: 1:03.66 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: ¾L x Long Head

Winning Trainer: Michael Moroney

This preparation: “He’s always been a very good horse and we put him in a couple of big races and he’s just taken a while to come on this time around.”

“Then I turned him out. He wasn’t really pleasing me coat-wise so I backed off him and then I said to the owners (that) he has come right so let’s keep going.”

“We were possibly going to run today and then go to the paddock so we’ll probably keep going now on that.”

Racing into the Summer: “He loves it around The Valley and The Valley races haven’t had the right sort of races coming for him there so we’ll have to rework it but it was a really good ride.”

“If you watch the replay he just sat and let the other one take off. He sat and saved him and he waited. Cuddled him back to the front, a very good ride.

Has a high opinion of the horse: “Always have. He’s a very fast horse and always shown really good ability.”

Summer sprints at Flemington: “Possibly will do now. We know he can win up the straight, that just changes things a bit.

“Champions Day, I feel like a champion today, we’ve won a couple (of races). It’s great.”

Winning Jockey: Jordan Childs

How the race unfolded: “He’s an on speed horse that you’ve got to utilise, they went along at a good gallop and he actually just had a resting run where he was. I was confident when I pressed the button he was going to find but I was just happy to be patient and let him build through his gears before I asked for that extra effort and he still got a little bit lost down the straight but he was able to hold them off.”