ADALIE MAKES IT TWO WINS FROM FIVE STARTS

By Graham Potter | Friday, February 2, 2024

The lightly raced Exceed And Excel filly Adalie scored her second career win in only five starts when she landed a BM58 Handicap over 1000m at the Sunshine Coast on February 2,

The four-year-old had won her third start in her first preparation, improving with each run before taking out a Maiden Handicap over 1000m, also at the Sunshine Coast ... her home track.

After that first career win, Adalie was then allowed a break of a full six-and-a-half months before resuming, and this time in she went one better, saluting second-up in confident enough fashion, producing a sustained finish to run down Sneaky Three ($6.50) who had looked the likely winner inside the final 150m.

Ryan Maloney, who had partnered Adalie to her pervious win, was again in the saddle of the $5.50 equal favourite and he had the David Vandyke trained runner in the leading line at the break, but he then elected to go back from the wide draw (barrier ten), slipping into fifth place, still held three wide, racing some three to four lengths off the leader.

Maloney then shifted Adalie five wide on the turn to find clear galloping room, momentarily dropping to seventh place on straightening with Maloney still riding hands and heels.

That was good enough to push Adalie up to third place approaching the 200m mark at which stage Maloney got busier in the saddle ... and he had to ... as Sneaky Three was kicking on strongly at the head of affairs and the $10 chance Our Rocketman was starting to make up ground quickly from behind.

Maloney is a master in this type of situation and his expertise in getting his mount to thrive in a driving finish was again very much to the fore as Adalie got the better of the game Sneaky Three ... albeit only inside the final 50m ... to win by 0.20 lengths with Our Rocketman a further length and a half behind the runner-up.

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