ELOPING RUNS AWAY WITH THE SILK STOCKING

By Graham Potter | Monday, May 9, 2016

BETTER THAN READY SILK STOCKING – LISTED
Fillies and Mares -1200m

It was a case of taking no prisoners for the Peter Robl trained Eloping in the Silk Stocking.

The speedy daughter of Choisir was fired out of the gates by Tegan Harrison and the duo had little trouble in stretching out to a clear-cut lead in the early part. They continued to lay down the gauntlet from there with Miss Cover Girl being the only runner either capable or brave enough to try and stay within reasonable range of the leader.

In the sweep to the turn that translated into a three length deficit with another two lengths back to the third placed Adorabubble. At the turn Miss Cover Girl had crept closer with the rest of the field still out of their ground, chasing hard, but Harrison had been giving Eloping a slight breather.

She waited patiently until the 200m before asking Eloping for that final effort and the gap between Eloping and Miss Cover Girl then started to increase again and it had widened to an official three length margin at the line ... the biggest winning margin of the day!

Eloping is now a seven time winner from twenty-three starts and she has banked $1 149 850.

She was having her third start since transferring to the Robl stable.

WINNER FEEDBACK

TRAINER PETER ROBL:

“She is a great mare on her day as we all know. She’d been racing well.

“The original plan was to go to Adelaide for the Group 1, but I just thought it was too hard a race. So we elected to come here.

“She had her last two starts here at the Gold Coast and raced well both times. I know it was probably a little bit out of left field to put Tegan (Harrison) on, but I just thought she was a jockey that would suit her.

“Mares seem to run for here and they tend to keep running for her so I thought she was the right choice of rider. I’m glad it worked out.

“We haven’t really set anything in concrete as to where we go from here.

“I’ll speak to the owners about it. Probably give her three weeks between runs and we’ll find another Group mare’s race for her and aim up again.”

STEWARDS REPORT EXTRACT:

Stewards accepted the explanation tendered by trainer S. Jones for the late declaration of B. Spriggs as the rider of CROOKED STICK.

CROOKED STICK – Fractious in the barriers. Raced wide throughout.

TINA MELINA – Fractious in the barriers and began awkwardly. Approaching the 250m was inconvenienced by TRAVESTON GIRL, which shifted in.

BRING ME THE MAID – Slow to begin. Jockey B. Shinn reported at scale that his mount was reluctant to race throughout the event.

JESSY BELLE – Bumped at the start. Held up rounding the home turn and in the early stages of the home straight.

ROSENET – Near the 900m had to be steadied from heels.

SARISARA – Raced 3 wide without cover throughout.

TRAVESTON GIRL – Raced wide throughout.

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