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The last day of the carnival was
forecast to be wet and cold but once again it was a fine and sunny day
for the return of Black Caviar to Adelaide. In running in the
Goodwood it was the first time that Black Caviar had had two starts in
the same state outside Victoria. In The Jansz it appeared that the
gallant Beau Jez was holding off the challenge of Stella Lante and would
break through for a win but in the shadows of the post Keep The Faith
filly Dinkum Diamond stormed home to win.
The second race was the Centaurea
Stakes for the mares which saw Dance With Her continuing on her winning
ways with an strong win from Placement with Epingle third while in the
Port Adelaide Cup Finiguerra finished strongly on the outside to win
with ease from stablemate Texan Warney with Rowland third. The SA
Fillies Classic had Red Typhoon atone for her unlucky run in the
Australasian Oaks to race away to victory from Crimson Lady (another
hard luck tale from the Oaks) with Elldami third while the Laelia Stakes
was taken out by Lucky Penny who is now unbeaten with three starts for
three wins from Juliet's Princess with Tai Tai Tess finishing hard for
third.
The RA Lee Stakes saw topweight
Linton running on to win first up over the 1600m with Hawks Bay second
and Verco Road third and then the crowd started to really crush as the
lead up to the Goodwood began. Right on time the horses came into
the yard led by Black Caviar who was cheered on entering, cheered when
Luke Nolen was legged aboard, cheered when she went onto the track, etc.
Another sold out raceday proved that the best way to draw a crowd is to
get the best horses as the drawcard which the SAJC has achieved for the
two main meetings of the carnival. Catapulted followed Black
Caviar onto the track and must have recognised the view as he was slowly
away and was never in the hunt. Black Caviar led early but
Weholdtheace edged to the lead before the turn as Streetcar Magic tried
to stalk Black Caviar followed by We're Gonna Rock. Black Caviar
took control under a throttlehold around the turn and the race was never
in doubt as she cantered away with first Streetcar Magic trying to chase
before wilting as We're Gonna Rock made his run with Stirling Grove
making ground closer to the inside while Stanzout ran on from the tail.
It was all Black Caviar as she cruised down to the line hard held in
what appeared to be no more than a track gallop until the time came up
showing she had run the 1200m in a faster time that the Sangster Stk two
weeks before and run her last 600m in 34 seconds - imagine if he had let
her stride! We're Gonna Rock got within 1 1/2 length of the eased
up Black Caviar then a gap back to Stirling Grove third with Stanzout
4th and Streetcar Magic fifth.
As the darkness started to close
in the Proud Miss Stakes was run where Bonnie Mac the winner of 4 of her
5 starts was too strong for the opposition winning easily from Just
Sybil with Sistine Angel third. |