DOOM SEPT 25 - MULTIRE MUSIC PLAYS WINNING TUNE

By Graham Potter | Monday, September 27, 2010

Doomben, September 25, 2010.
Track - Slow 6. Rail - out 5m. Penetrometer: 5.20.
Class 6 Handicap - 1110m.
Time: 1-04.78. Last 600m: 34.71. (Carrying 53kg).
1 Multire Music; 2 Cat Eyes; 3 Daneomite.
Margins: 1.00; Half-head.

It is no small training feat bringing a mare back after a knee operation and fifteen months off the track, so trainer Terry McCarthy deserves great credit for the race-winning performance of Multire Music who outgunned her opposition, first-up, in a Class 6 Handicap at Doomben on Saturday.

The daughter of Mull Of Kintyre had gone some way to proving her prowess before her enforced layoff, landing no less than five wins from eleven starts up to June 2009, when she disappeared from the scene.

At the end of that campaign Multire Music had won two of her last three starts, including a last start win over 1010m at Doomben when accounting for Guissepino by a long-head margin.

Thus it was that when Multire Music triumphed on Saturday, she was in fact making it back to back wins in the city - albeit that the double took fifteen months to complete.

The five-year-old launched herself into an immediate lead. Jockey Scott Seamer allowed Multire Music to roll along and the mare enjoyed a two length lead while dictating a lively speed until the turn where they cornered two lengths to the good of the main fancy Cat Eyes, who had been tracking the speed throughout.

Cat Eyes and Daneomite began to try to chase down the leader in earnest early in the home straight, but Multire Music had a kick of her own … to the degree that she actually extended her advantage between the 300 and 200m marks.

With 150m left to run Multire Music led by a little under three lengths and, although Cat Eyes and Daneomite did close ground over the concluding stages, the race remained safely in Multire Music’s keeping as Seamer kept her going to the line to score by a one length margin.

Multire Music now has an enviable fifty percent strike-rate (six wins from twelve starts).

WINNER FEEDBACK:
Trainer Terry McCarthy: “I just said to Scott (Seamer) to ride his own race.

“You know, she came back after about fifteen months without a run. Her last win was here, so … yeah, there was a lot of pressure, but she came through.

“We’ve had a lot of trouble with tracks at home … they’ve been bloody heavy … trying to get her fit … so I’ve had to trail her a couple of times. She trialed very well at Murwillumbah the other day. She still had to put it in on race-day.

“She’s always shown a lot of potential. She had a little knee problem and we just took care of it.

“It was recommended to us that we just give her a nice bit of time off and we’d probably have her for a time to race.

“It was a big thing to come here today. We weren’t hoping for too wet a track because of her knee job and so on … but anyway she’s come through it. I hope she pulls up ok.

“She might be going bigger places!

Jockey Scott Seamer: “She is a filly that has got nice speed. She actually got there (into the lead) quite comfortably.

“She hadn’t had a run for a while. She likes slow going … just not heavy. She’s a mare that always has appreciated the sting out of the ground and she’s always shown a bit of ability. She can really gallop.

“There is a bit of improvement in her. She is usually about a 1000 or 1100m horse … 1200’s at the top, but she hasn’t had a run for a while so the last 50m she was sort of just going through the motions.

‘Like I say, there is improvement there.”

PRICE FLUCTUATIONS:
Winner (Multire Music): 4.60 out to 4.80.
Favourite (Cat Eyes): 2.70 in to 2.50. Finished second.

STEWARDS REPORT EXTRACT:
Connections of Spanish Fling advised that if circumstances permit the horse will be ridden a little more forward today.

Leaving the 800m Guissepino (C. McIver) had to be steadied from the heels of Sleek Repeat (J. Wood), which shifted in to a position one off the fence. Apprentice J. Wood was reprimanded under AR. 137(a).

Daneomite (P. Hammersley) raced wide throughout.

Approaching the 300m Sleek Repeat had to be momentarily steadied and alter course when Spanish Fling (M. Radecker) shifted out to obtain clear running.

G. Colless, the rider of Honest Truth, which performed below expectations, explained that the gelding travelled well until placed under pressure near the 400m and failed to respond to his riding from that point. G. Colless added that in his view the performance of Honest Truth was disappointing today.

A post-race veterinary examination of Honest Truth revealed no abnormalities.

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