DOOM OCT 1 - REVITALISED DEE BEE NINE LEADS THEM A MERRY DANCE: END TO END VICTORY NEVER IN DOUBT

By Graham Potter | Monday, October 1, 2012

Doomben, October 1, 2012.
Track - Slow 6. Rail - out 1m.
Class 6 Plate (Four-year-olds and up - Set weights) - 1110m.
1 Dee Bee Nine; 2 Tunahog; 3 Bondarchuk; 4 Alltherightmoves.
Time: 1-05.09. Last 600: 33.61.
Margins: 1.00; 1.80.

WINNER FEEDBACK:
Trainer Matthew Dunn: “He’s changed things around hasn’t he? He used to get right back in his races. In his last couple of starts he’s showing good pace … and again today.

“That wasn’t really the plan. He was a little bit closer last start, but I never expected him to lead. I think they just handed it up to him. They just went slow early and he was just too good over the last bit. There was a bite of out of the track also and he just loves that.

“His first prep for us he was really good. He was really consistent. That last prep he just didn’t come up at all. He went horrible. We stuck with him, luckily, and he seems to have come back better than ever.

“Last start was the first start with blinkers back on … and the tongue tie. Jeff Lloyd rode him in a trial for me and said put a tongue-tie on him, it might just help him. He was making an airways sound. Since we’ve put that on him it has probably been the turning point. He’s turned around since then.

“It’s showing good potential. He was an expensive yearling and is very well bred and hopefully he can live up to it.”

Jockey Glen Colless: “He appreciated the surface today … with the sting out of it.

“He got a very easy lead. I didn’t think he would lead and I was quite surprised he ended up in front. When they left him there, like I say, he had a very easy lead and then he had a good kick didn’t he?

STEWARDS REPORT EXTRACT:
Trainer K. Schweida advised stewards that it would be the intention to have Akbar Mahal (T. Bell) settle further back in the field. The horse was ridden accordingly.

Apprentice R. Myers, the rider of Alltherightmoves, was severely reprimanded for permitting her mount to shift in near the 800m when not sufficiently clear, resulting in Pretty Composed (J. Lloyd) and Trillium (A. Hearn) being tightened for room.

Approaching the 200m Bondarchuk (C. Munce) laid in under pressure and brushed with Tunahog (B. Stewart), causing Bondarchuk to become unbalanced.

Bondarchuk bled from both nostrils during the event. Trainer T. Gollan was advised that as this was the second occasion on which the horse has bled, it will incur a lifetime bar from racing.

A post-race veterinary examination of Alltherightmoves (R. Myers), which travelled wide during the early and middle stages, revealed no abnormalities.

Find out more about the winning trainer:
Matt Dunn

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