EF MAR 05 - JET STAR GIRL POWERS HOME

By Graham Potter | Monday, March 7, 2011

Eagle Farm, March 5, 2011.
Track - Heavy 10. Rail - out 4.5m.
QTIS 2yo Handicap - 1200m.
1 Jet Star Girl; 2 Master Of Puppets; 3 Easy Running.
Time: 1-13.22. (Carrying 53kg).Last 600m: 37.16.
Margins: 0,75. 3.00.

WINNER FEEDBACK:
Trainer Pat Duff: “That was very satisfying. I’m very happy with her.

“Jason (Taylor) talked me into running her. He rode her up at Ipswich (where she finished fifth on debut, 2.50 lengths behind Rare Find). He said, she’s a city standard filly this!

“Jason won on Kahui for me last week and he said, run her (Jet Star Girl), she’s as good a filly as that one … and maybe even better, you know.

“So that gave us a bit of confidence.

“She’s another Jet Spur. You can’t miss with the Jet Spur’s can you? At the moment they are on fire.

“She’s green still. She’s got a lot of learning to do … but she is very smart.

“Jason will have to make a decision because she’ll meet the other one at the Coast. He’s got a big decision … which one will he ride? I’ll leave that up to him.

Jockey Jason Taylor: “It will be a tough choice between Kahui and her.

“She won that quite convincingly. I liked her from the moment I put my leg over her at Ipswich. I rated her right up with the filly (Kahui).

“She ran enormous at Ipswich first start. I thought her run was just fantastic. She did a couple of little things wrong. Half-a-mile … it was just a learning curve for her. It was a bit short for her. If that had been 1200 it would have won easy the other day.

“Today she did everything right and raced enormous again.

“She got through that (heavy) track alright. Early stages she was only just handling it. In the straight, when she wound up, she felt good in it.

“She showed a lot of guts in the finish to kick on strong.”

PRICE FLUCTUATIONS:
Winner (Jet Star Girl): 12.00 out to 16.00 in to 13.00.
Favourite (Easy Running): 1.70 steady. Finished third.

STEWARDS REPORT EXTRACT:
No More Bull (L. Cassidy) knuckled at the start and lost ground.

Dazzling Kind (M. Wood) jumped very awkwardly and shifted out, hampering All Significant (K. Wharton) and Viking Heart (E. Wilkinson).

Approaching the 900m, All Significant (K. Wharton), when racing in restricted room between Viking Heart and Stag (R. McMahon), became unbalanced, blundered severely and lost considerable ground.

After taking evidence from K. Wharton, rider of All Significant, and viewing the available footage of the incident, stewards deemed the incident to be of an accidental nature and as such took no further action.

A post race veterinary examination of All Significant failed to reveal any significant abnormalities.

Apprentice M. Hellyer, rider of Easy Running, was issued with a reprimand for allowing his mount to shift out under pressure from the 400m until approaching the 200m, which resulted in Jet Star Girl (J. Taylor) being taken wider on the track.

J. Taylor, rider of Jet Star Girl, was found guilty of a charge of careless riding, in that passing the 200m he permitted his mount to shift out when insufficiently clear of Vortex (C. Munce), resulting in Vortex having to be checked when tightened onto the hind quarters of Master Of Puppets (B. El-Issa).

J. Taylor was suspended from riding in races for a period covered by 6 meetings, to commence at midnight, 5 March and to expire at midnight, 16 March.

Viking Heart raced wide throughout.

Stewards sought an explanation from M. Hellyer regarding the riding tactics employed on Easy Running, which led and set a fast tempo throughout the first half of the race.

M. Hellyer explained that he was instructed to lead and if challenged to surrender that position.

He conceded that he had erred in the early stages by riding Easy Running too aggressively which resulted in him leading by a considerable distance when the horse over-raced and refused to settle through the middle stages. Stewards noted the M. Hellyer's explanation.

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