Via Sistina Matches Winx by eliminating $ 5 million Randwick Race
“I’m thinking we were saving ground, it was an economic race, we had the right man on board,” he said.
“James continued to mature and not in panic, this is the key to winning these great races. The big jockeys win them all the time. Having one of them on the back of your horse is a great advantage for your team.
James McDonald after winning on board via Sistina.Credit: Getty images
“It’s a big big horse and it’s really frightening, we don’t ask her home too, we keep it together and we know it’s their day of the race.
“You are looking for them to shoot, and when she shoots, the acceleration is there. We are still knowing it, it is so simple, and it is good in her twilight years. She is frightening, really, as it is good.”
When he was asked if via Sistina would have run, Waller said he would have to ask the “big boss” about it, referring to the owner of Yulong Yuesheng Zhang. Yulong indicated after the Cox plate last year that the plan was for a defense of the title in the weight championship by age in spring to Moonee Valley.
McDonald said he was worried, but only for a moment, on Saturday’s flight.
“He felt like he was about to tear away and then in first place, he is just doing enough,” McDonald said.
“Very excellent horse. There was a small worrying moment, I thought that what I was following would have kicked for a gap and did not do it and I finished again, but it was superior.”
It was Deja Vu for McDonald and Waller in the last group 1 of the day, the queen of the grassy carpet, when Fangirl returned from an internal race to win as a favorite.
It was a fourth group 1 for the six -year -old mare, that Waller said he would run in the spring with a defense of the title in the post office of King Charles III.
James McDonald won the queen of the grassy carpet with Fangirl.Credit: Getty images
McDonald, who lost the meeting last week, won a fifth record medal by Nathan Berry as a pilot of the championships with three wins and one second. He finished two points away from Jason Collett.
In the meantime, the Victorian coach Matt Laurie said Treasurethe Moment the best foal in the country and indicated that a Cax Plate campaign was on the cards after climbing late to complete the double VRC and Australian Oaks (2400m).
The favored of $ 1.55 owned by Yulong, shooting for an eighth consecutive victory, was under pressure on the straight but composed of length on the last Furlong to capture the Sun ‘n’ n ‘Sand in the shade of the pole for a long neck victory in the $ 1 million race.
“He had to really dig deep,” said Laurie.
“They weren’t going so quickly, and she didn’t have a coverage for a part of the race and she too was in a wrong advantage for a long time.
Damian Lane did the job at the moment of Treasurethe in Randwick on Saturday.Credit: Getty images
“They really went all together like a group outside the shift and was under a siege.
“It was really incredible. I feel like I had burst into tears.”
As for a next goal, he said: “Who doesn’t like a Cox dish?”
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“I will be very guided by what he thinks (Jockey) Damian (Lane), but I feel like 2000m, a little more than rhythm, anything from a mile to 2000 with the rhythm.
“But for mine, it is the best foal of the country.”
Laurie said he knew that Treasurethe Moment was a special horse when he started his winning series in Sandown on September 28th.
“It was the day I was like, I think we have a nice foal here,” said Laurie.
After the meeting, Lane was fined $ 10,000 and suspended for two weeks for an excessive use of the whisk in the oaks. Blake Shinn was suspended five meetings and Tommy Berry Six for causing interference to South Pacific Classic and Sydney Cup respectively.
