POETIC DRAMA - YOU'D LIKE TO HAVE A FEW MORE HORSES LIKE HER IN THE STABLE

By Graham Potter | Saturday, November 30, 2024

You’d like to have a few more horses like this one in the stable.

The Tony and Maddysen Sears trained Poetic Drama’s win in the Vale Pat Duff Class 6 Handicap over 1630m at Doomben on November 30, was the mare’s sixth career win to go along with no less than fifteen runner-up finishes and three third places which has helped her accumulate $414 760 in prize-money from thirty-seven starts.

The chestnut daughter of Proisir was certainly due for this latest success as she came into this assignment on the back of two successive runner-up finishes, both of 1600m … the last of those being in the Mooloolaba Cup behind the rejuvenated Kerchak, whose win in the Mooloolaba Cup was the middle leg of a hat-trick of wins.

Poetic Drama’s regular jockeys Andrew Mallyon and Cejay Graham had ridden the Sears trained runner in those two recent second place results, but this time the reins were handed to Angela Jones, who had won on Poetic Drama in her last win four runs back, in her only ride on the horse.

Jones would keep that one hundred percent win record aboard Poetic Drama intact with a confident ride in a race in which, in spite of knocking at the door with her lead-up results, Poetic Drama started at the juicy odds of $10.

Drawn in barrier number eleven at a starting position which quickly takes runners into the first turn was not ideal, and Jones had to work out her tactics ‘on the run’ from there, depending on how the race panned out.

Initially she did urge Poetic Drama up into midfield soon after the break but, after being held three wide, Jones elected to Jones elected to take the Sears trained runner back to third last in the eleven-strong field, giving the leader some seven lengths as the field went down the back stretch.

Still unable to get in, Jones waited until the start of the sweep to the home turn to begin pushing Poetic Drama forward in measured fashion, tracking three … then four wide … until straightening all of five wide as the field entered the home turn, having followed the highly capable Miss Joelene ($9) into the race.

As Jones would have hoped, Miss Jolene duly took Poetic Drama further into the race, to the extent that, when Miss Jolene hit the front at the 200m mark, Poetic Drama was just two lengths back and running on as well as anybody else.

Make that … better than anyone else.

Try as Miss Jolene might … and hers was an extremely game effort … she could not hold out Poetic Drama, who Jones drove past Miss Jolene in the final couple of strides to claim victory under an inch perfect ride.

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