Awesome Planet Returns To Winners List
- Monday, 26 October 2009 02:30
Under a confident ride by Michael Walker, the Graeme and Debbie Rogerson trained mare came from a handy position to reel in Cross Roads and favourite Mill Duckie at her leisure over the concluding stages.
A close up ninth to Who Knows after covering extra ground in the Kelt Memorial at Hastings earlier in the month, Awesome Planet won the Soliloquy Stakes (1400m), and the Manawatu Breeders' Stakes (2000m), both at listed level, as a three-year-old.
She followed her Doomben Roses win with a fifth in the Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2400m) on unsuitable slow footing.
Graeme Rogerson said, "All she needed was a dry track. She's got a lot of ability this filly and I think she's a pretty good horse."
Awesome Planet was a $155,000 purchase from the 2007 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale.
The winner of five races for $285,000 in prize money, Awesome Planet is likely to contest the $250,000 Group 2 Coupland's Bakeries Mile at Riccarton Park Racecourse in Christchurch on November 11 as her next assignment.
