The
horse husbandry skills of leading Victorian co-trainers
Mick Price and Mick Kent Jnr were on display at Geelong on Friday afternoon when the boys produced
Dynamic Syndications beautiful 3yo filly to resume in this assignment in excellent order.
This was a race that we had planned to run in for 3 months, and the timing was superb as
SENSATIONALISATION (3yo Filly by WRITTEN TYCOON ex SHEER SENSATION) purchased from the
Inglis Classic Sale from the
AQUIS Draft, was given the prefect ride by
jet pilot Michael Walker to Win race 3, the Newcob Sand and Soil 1300m 3yo Maiden Plate.
SENSATIONALISATION and Michael Walker won the event by 1.5 lengths over Best Episode with a further 0.75 length back to Vidiano in third place. They ran the 1300m in 1:17.96.
This race was identified by us to resume in when she went for a spell, because it
carried a SUPER VOBIS Bonus plus a VOBIS GOLD Bonus, making the win worth a combined
$35,050 to the winner.
It was $12,650 first place plus $8,400 Super VOBIS plus $14,000 VOBIS Gold. This was a rich way to break Maiden status for our owners.
Whilst there is no such thing as a certainty,
the win was always expected and last preparation she had served notice of her ability with two excellent third placings in city grade. First up she hit a heavy track over 1200m when 0.95 length away from the winner at Sandown mid-week and followed that race with another third this time in Saturday class in the VIC Gold Ingot at Caulfield when 1.3 lengths from the winner.
It all came a bit too soon for her last preparation, despite having the physique, she lacked the mental maturity. However, with the benefit of the break and the return with a solid jump out and trial under her belt, our filly was ready to run.
Michael Walker has a huge opinion of SENSATIONALISATION and we rate Michael highly as our go-to rider in Melbourne.
“Cuz” as he is known, has been super confident that the filly had come back significantly better than when she went out and it was down to Michael to prove to connections how good the filly was in a race.
As the gates clanged back, our filly jumped away brilliantly to settle on pace, in the field of 12 runners.
After they had run 150m,
SENSATIONALISATION was poking-up in the centre of a line of three, sitting at the quarters of the horse on the fence Black Monsoon as Forche was pushing-up to cross over and take the fence.
Michael allowed
SENSATIONALISATION to get in a rhythm and then, once Forche settled on speed, he allowed our filly to move up a length and sit at the girth of the leader, with the eventual runner-up Best Episode on our tail, and the eventual third horse on the back of the runner-up, as the field spread out over 10 lengths by the time they had passed the 800m.
The confidence of
Cuz was on display as he was sitting high in the irons, like it was trackwork, keeping
SENSATIONALISATION balanced and under control.
Nothing in the race changed as the field thundered passed the 400m and they wheeled into the home straight.
As they straightened for the run home, the leader compounded leaving
SENSATIONALISATION in front with 350m to run and the swoopers lining up out wider.
However,
Cuz knew the horse was going well underneath him and was still having the luxury of having a strangle hold on the filly as they passed the 250m and all others were under pressure making their moves.
Michael pushed the go button at the 220m and
SENSATIONALISATION changed gears and gave a kick, putting the race away before having the benefit of an easy time in the run to the line.
That was a sensational win by the sensationally backed
SENSATIONALISATION who when markets first went up on as much as $3.00 was on offer before crunching in, as connections and astute punters backed the filly into
$1.60 as she was a class above her peers in this event, although the runner-up and third horse are certainly appear to be worth following for the future.
SENSATIONALISATION has taken her career record to 3 Starts: 1 Win, 2 Thirds and $53,275 with the promise to add nicely to this in the future.
Michael Walker said in a Post-race interview by Racing.com with our jockey:
“Well Michael, you rode it like the best horse in the race, and it won like the best horse in the race”
Michael replied:
“Yeah, she’s come back good this prep. Last time she was finding the line without really savaging the line, attacking it, but I think with the break, she’s come back so much better, I trialled it the other day, it trialled good, and I galloped it in between and she just came on really, really good this prep and Mick and Junior have done a good trainer’s job, just setting her for the right race first up to get a kill.
“She’s a confidence horse and she got that confidence today and there’s so much more improvement in her and I really like her going forward and especially, I would like to thank Adam Watt and the whole Dynamic Syndications team for the opportunities they have given me also.”
How much upside to you think is in her?
“I think she’s still got a few more gears therefore the reason that I know, she hit the line, going to the line good today, but she wasn’t slowing down, so she gives me every indication that another furlong up in trip will really suit her and you know that Mick and Junior are not people that throw their horses in the deep end, so they put them in races that they can win and that’s what they have done here today, to get her confident and I think if they go up in distance next time, she will be hard to beat again.”
Congratulations to our Top Team of Loyal Dynamic Syndications Owners that own and race this highly promising filly: Dynamic Syndications Racing Synd, Mr D L Tuck, Mrs B A Keane, Mr G D Jarvis, Mr J N Allen, Mrs E A Scilini, Mr J Fah, Mr D J Ricketts, Mr S M Falconer, Mr S J Brereton, Mr D P Lacey, Mr J Kelly, Mrs B Hobson, Mr I Kolega, Dynamic No 103 Synd, Dynamic No 104 Synd, Dynamic No 105 Synd, Mr S F Duggan, Mrs B Poletto.
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We are delighted to advise that this win by SENSATIONALISATION recorded our 685th Race Win Overall.
SENSATIONALISATION became our 243rd Individual Winner from 268 Individual Runners which is a massive, industry leading, 90.7% Winners : Runners.
SENSATIONALISATION also recorded our 31st Win in the 2020-21 Racing Season and she also recorded our 63rd Race Win for the 2020 Calendar Year.
Onward and Upwards!