REMLAPS ANGEL WAS IN A RACE OF HER OWN

By Graham Potter | Sunday, January 21, 2024

The David Vandyke trained Remlaps Angel trounced his eight rivals in no uncertain terms when going to the line a full 3.80 lengths clear of the second placed, $61 outsider, You Kay Squeeze in a Fillies and Mares Maiden Handicap over 1100m at Ipswich on January 21.

The betting certainly suggested the race would come up with that kind of result with Remlaps Angel starting at the very restrictive odds of $1.22 with only two other runners quoted at less than $20.

Remlaps Angel came into the race first-up since her lack-lustre unplaced start at Doomben on September 20. Before that, the daughter of Hellbent had hinted of having some ability on debut where she finished runner-up, less than a length behind the winner, both of her first two starts coming over 1000m.

What a difference four months can make.

The three-year-old filly came out firing in her third career start, immediately shrugging a couple of rivals in the early chase for the lead.

Once in front, Jimmy Orman was riding Remlaps Angel for the first time, encouraged the Vandyke trained runner to push forward and use her early speed to good advantage, and she did that with comparative ease to edge away into a two-length lead as she took the field through the first half of the sweep to the home turn.

Approaching the turn, the $14 chance Patti ‘N’ Fay made a charge at the leader, getting within a length of Remlaps Angel on the point of the turn, but that challenge was short-lived as Remlaps Angle merely stretched away again on straightening with contemptuous ease, striding strongly all the way to the line to have the race well and truly won long before the finish line.

Remlaps Angel thus came home as both the most clear-cut winner on the day, as well as the shortest priced winner as she put that important first win behind his name.

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