IPSW JUNE 15: ANAGOLD STRIKES FOR THE BRYAN GUY STABLE IN AN IPSWICH CUP BOILOVER

By Graham Potter | Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Ipswich, June 15, 2013.
Track - Slow 7; Rail - True.
Channel 7 Ipswich Cup (Quality - Listed) - 2150m.
1 Anagold; 2 High Kin; 3 Za Magic; Topping.
Time: 2-17.61. Last 600m: 38.10.
Margins: 0.20; 0.30.

ANAGOLD (Anabaa (USA) - Silky Gold) is owned by MH Y Foo and Mrs S E Wee.

This was the mare’s twenty-seventh start and she is now a six-time winner and also has seven minor placings to her credit. The Cup victory more than doubled her previous stake earnings, taking that figure from $118 350 to $246 350.

WINNER FEEDBACK:

TRAINER BRYAN GUY:

“After her great run in the Magic Millions race in January (where Anagold finished second to Kinnersley in the Magic Millions Stayers) we planned to come to have a crack at the better races here over the winter carnival.

“We gave her a trial. We missed a race-meeting which put us back behind a race and then I had to jump her from a mile to a 2100m race (when unplaced behind Quintessential) in the Chairman’s Handicap) which didn’t help.

“She just kept improving, but she’s not quite up to the Group 1, Group 2 sort of levels … she might get away with a Group 3. So we thought we would go to the Ipswich Cup.

“We made that our target as a Listed race. We thought it would be a little bit weaker and we were lucky enough to get away with it.

‘Great ride by Tony (Pattillo) and she had the luck in racing, but, you know, we had prepared her for the race and we were also prepared to come back that bit of grade.

“She is a mare. She been placed in a Listed race and now she has won a Listed race so the value on her is very good.

\“Yeah, I wasn’t at Ipswich. I was at the Gold Coast. If you had been standing anywhere near me when Anagold was coming home over the last 200m you would have known where I was. I was very happy.

“I only made the decision to stay at the Gold Coast at about eight o’clock in the morning … and that was only because we had a horse in at the coast, Lohan, who could have been a problem.

“In her last set of trails at the coast she went mad in the stalls. We had trouble getting a saddle on her. We had to get the pony to hold her … that sort of stuff and I said to my foreman, do you feel confident saddling up this mare and … well basically it came down to the fact that he preferred to go to Ipswich and I was happy to let him do that and stay at the coast with Daniel to take care of things.

“That way there would be two of us at the coast doing what my foreman would be doing by himself. As it turned out Lonhan wasn’t bad on the day at all … but, that’s the only reason I never went to Ipswich.

“I’ve been going every year.

“Last year I thought I had a certainly in the Cup, Shuffle The Cash, but he bowed a tendon on the morning of the race.

“He was one of the favourites and I thought he would just win.

“I had been placed in the Cup three or four times before that, but never had a win in the Cup until now with Anagold … so it was probably out turn!

JOCKEY TONY PATTILLO:

“That’s my second Cup. The first was Forest Jim about seven years ago.

“She was handling it. Like the fence has probably been a little bit off all day but, my horse was getting through it pretty good.

“She moved into the race really nice. Some of them were starting to pan out and they were going nowhere out wide so I thought, I’m not getting a cart into the race there, so I had to go about making my own way through them.

“Cut backed, looked ahead and drove forward.

“You have to get the luck. If they had closed up I’d go home looking like a mug and B R Guy would be giving me a gob-full again.

“I did the form and I thought her run behind Quintessential was pretty good. If she has started in this race she would have been a pretty short favourite.

“We were down carrying 54kg’s. It wasn’t a pipedream. We were a good chance in the race and we won it. It’s been a long time coming for me.”

STEWARDS REPORT EXTRACT:

DODGING EDDIE (K. Matheson) was slow to begin.

TOPPING (L. Cassidy) raced three wide in the early stages before being ridden forward to obtain a position outside the leader near the 1400m.

Leaving the 700m, TUSKEGEE HAWK (A. Spinks) attempted to shift out around the heels of MASTER AVATAR (T. Bell) and in doing so made heavy contact with MUIRFIELD (E. Wilkinson) and as a result became unbalanced. TUSKEGEE HAWK and MUIRFIELD bumped on a number of occasions following this incident.

SECRET GARDEN (M. Cahill) was forced extremely wide from passing the 600m.

Approaching and rounding the home turn, GOLD CAPE (M. Hellyer) was held up and unable to secure clear running.

GOLD CAPE (M. Hellyer) was held up for clear running over the concluding stages.

L. Innes, ridder of HIGH KIN, was fined $200 for using his whip more than 5 times prior to the 100m. In assessing penalty, stewards took into account his good record regarding breaches of this rule.

HIGH KIN lost its off-fore plate in running.

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