TWO-IN-A-ROW FOR DAZZLING FLASH

By Graham Potter | Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Tony and Maddysen Sears Training Partnership scored three successive second placings (from only three runners) on February 16 and February 17 … with Even Now and Little Miss Pixie both earning their runner-up finishes at Doomben (in a QTIS Two-Year-Old Fillies Maiden Plate over 1000m and a BM68 Handicap over 1350m respectively), while Montana Lady finished second at Ipswich in a Two-Year-Old Maiden Plate over 800m.

But the stable was only just warming up!

They would claim no less than four victories in the remainder of the month of February … with two of those victories coming on February 19, with Dazzling Flash making it back-to-back wins by taking out a Three-Year-Old BM65 Handicap over 1200m at the Gold Coast and Red Wave scoring a Metropolitan win at the Sunshine Coast in a QTIS Three-Year-Old Handicap over 1600m.

Dazzling Flash had scored a clear-cut Maiden win at her previous start and, as convincing as that win had been, it is never easy to put consecutive wins together,
particularly when coming out of Maiden company, which is possibly one of the reasons why she started at odds of $10.

The nice surprise was that Dazzling Flash made this latest win look every bit as easy as her Maiden victory.

Red Dazzler landed in the leading line and, with plenty of speed on around her, Jackson Murphy continued to press forward in the early stages, before electing to let the two duelling leaders go and take a watching brief a couple of lengths off them in third place.

Peeling four wide on the turn, Dazzling Flash had those couple of lengths still to find on the leader Grey Defence ($8.50), who was fighting on, but she made light work of that task, already hitting the front at the 150m mark and letting nobody else into the race as he moved clear to win by a widening 2.80 length margin.

Both of Dazzling Flash’s career wins to date have come in soft going … which always keeps a nice option open moving forward … and the way she took the step up from 1000m (from her Maiden) to the 1200m was also a very positive sign.

That’s two wins for Dazzling Flash now from only six starts. She also has two minor placings to her credit.

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