Great Oaks Trial From Kirramosa
- Saturday, 02 November 2013 02:09
Kiwi filly Kirramosa showed she is a force to be reckoned with in next Thursday's Oaks with a last to first win in the Wakeful Stakes at Flemington this afternoon.
Dropped out to last by Tommy Berry, Kirramosa was content to lob along while Star Fashion made the pace. Coming to the home turn, Berry moved his mount off the fence and let her lengthen stride.
Kirramosa Wins the Wakeful Stakes
After balancing up Kirramosa ($8.50-$9.50) finished full of running out wide to gobble up the leaders at the 100 metre mark. She went on to win by a length and a quarter from May's Dream ($2.50-$2.60-$2.25) with a half length to Solicit ($7-$8-$7.50). Arabian Gold battled on for fourth.
Berry was thrilled with his first ride for the Flemington Carnival:
"I wanted to come down and win a Group race and to do it on the first day of the Carnival with my first ride is a great feeling but all credit goes to the trainer", he said.
"She just cruised around the back and doesn’t really use any energy in the run and she only had to sprint for two furlongs."
"They just went at a nice tempo but they really quickened up from the half mile and I gave her a little click and she really picked herself up and towed me into the straight and was always going to be hard to beat."
"You look at her previous form and you could see she had a devastating turn of foot so she’ll be hard to beat in the Oaks now and it’s just a pity they’ve already got Nash (Rawiller)."
Kirramosa
Trainer John Sargent explained that he was not originally planning to run in the Wakeful.
"That’s why I booked Nash Rawiller (for the Oaks) because she was going to go straight into it but at the end of last week she was jumping out of her skin and probably doing too well."
"You can’t go into an Oaks without having the distance and she was probably going to be too fresh going from a mile to 2500m so we changed our tack and it worked today."
Sargent has a high opinion of the Kirramosa, one of the first progeny of former top liner Alamosa which stands at Wellfield Stud in New Zealand.
"She’s always shown she’s had ability right from when she won her first start in New Zealand and her second start was fourth in a Group 1 so she's had that class."
Sargent is confident that today's run is the perfect conclusion to Kirramosa's Oaks preparation.
"As long as she comes through it she’ll be spot on for Thursday", he said.
"She is a very laid back filly and nothing worries her."
Photos: Fiona Tomlin
