Winning Horse: Hypothetical (Aus)

4yoM Pride Of Dubai (Aus) - Fitna (Aus)(Fastnet Rock (Aus))

6 starts - 4 wins 1 second 1 third $171425

Other Wins

1st Geelong Plan Group Geelong Bm64 Handicap 1100m (2022)

1st Sale Lords Cleaning (Bm64) 1106m (2022)

1st Sandown-Lakeside Ladbroke It Mdn Plate 1200m (2022)

Other Placings

3rd Flemington World Horse Racing Grand Handicap 1100m (2022)

2nd Mornington The Big Screen Company Mdn 1200m (2022) (Debut Run)

Race Result:

1st: Hypothetical (B Melham/A & S Freedman) - $2 fav

2nd: Belle Et Riche (J Childs/M Freedman) - $6.50
3rd: Defining (E Brown/T & C McEvoy) - $7

Winning Time: 1:13.85 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: 1-3/4L x 1-1/2L

Winning Trainer: Anthony & Sam Freedman (Stable rep Steve Adams speaking)

Continues start to career: “She’s a winner although she has been beaten a couple of times, but it’s good to get another one today.”

Thoughts in the run: “She is a little bit quirky and if he tries to restrain her, she tends to overreact. Ben just rolled with her and it was the right move.”

Fighting qualities: “She was running around a little bit and looked a bit lost out there in front, but she knows where the line is, for sure.”

Winning Jockey: Ben Melham

Conditions: “Treacherous. Obviously there is a bit of rain and a strong head breeze from the chute. She wanted to zing a long a little bit and I didn’t want her pulling into that breeze even though she was rolling a long at a good tempo. She needed a left whip in the straight, but my goggles were full of water and I couldn’t see my reins. We were just clinging on for hope.

“She’s a good progressive mare and she showed that today.”

Where opposition was: “Like I said, I couldn’t see them, but I knew she was rolling along at a good tempo and into the breeze it’s important not to be pulling them too much as they can chew more energy. She rolled along at a good tempo, a good rhythm and she was good enough to hold on.”