Well-related filly Mystical Pursuit gave trainer Adam Trinder his second successive win in the $30,000 Ensign Lodge Alfa Bowl at Mowbray on Wednesday night.
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Mystical Pursuit is a three-quarter sister to last year’s winner Mystic Journey who has gone on to group 2 success in Melbourne.
Mystic Journey won her first three starts and Trinder is hoping Mystical Pursuit will also have a lucrative two-year-old season “if she keeps a handle on her manners.”
“She is a bit mentally fragile,” the trainer said.
Mystical Pursuit raced outside Deroche ($2.10 into $1.40) and ran straight past her at the 150m.
She went on to score by 1-½ lengths from Gee Gees Darl who ran on gamely to cut Deroche out of second money.
Trinder said he was pleased that Mystical Pursuit had “shown good tactical speed to settle second and relaxed nicely when she got outside the leader.
“We were very aware that we didn’t want to be giving Deroche too big a head-start,” he said.
“She lowered and lengthened when Chris (Graham) gave her a slap and I love to see that in a horse.”
Mystical Pursuit is raced by Trinder’ s major stable client Wayne Roser.
The win gave Trinder and Graham a treble in successive races, as they also scored with Mystical Pursuit’s full sister Secret Gold and former Victorian stayer Thanos.
PLUNGE ON TARGET
Former Sydney galloper Jackson James landed a plunge with his comfortable win in the Maiden Plate but his supporters lost some of their profits due to two late scratchings.
The Glenn Stevenson-trained four-year-old was backed from $3.10 to $1.70 in the Utab fixed-odds market and paid only $1.50 on the tote.
Second favourite Runaway Girl and first-starter Jessie’s Diva were both withdrawn when they couldn’t be loaded and deductions totalled 21c in the dollar.
Stevenson said Jackson James had been sent to Tasmania by his Sydney breeder Michelle Johnston.
“He didn’t trial or anything up there – he was an orphan foal and always very immature,” the trainer said.
“He’s showing plenty of pace at the moment but I think he’ll be a 2000m horse later on.”
Jackson James gave Craig Newitt an early double.
SIMON BLAZING
Singapore apprentice Simon Kok landed his first win on the Mowbray track on Blaze Forth in the Craig Hanson Memorial.
Blaze Forth sat one-out, one-back in a small field before easily overpowering the leader Galeocerdo.
The win completed a double for trainer John Blacker who also won the Roy & Dora Coghlan Memorial with Cunning Fox.
