NEW MAHER SCORES A WELL DESERVED VICTORY

By Graham Potter | Monday, July 1, 2024

New Maher was having his fifth start for the Corey and Kylie Geran stable here and the win (as a $2.60 favourite) was always on the cards given the clear and positive form progression rate he had shown in those five starts ... particularly in the immediate two starts leading into this race in which New Maher recorded two runner-up finishes, last time having to give best to his stable companion Vonzither in a thriller.

The early lead was contested by three runners spread across the track and New Maher raced in the middle of that trio until jockey Nozi Tomizawa made the decision to drop out of that chase and settle his mount in third place ... getting the run of the race.

Adelaide’s Lace ($13) then became the tearaway leader, going clear by over four lengths, but she was a tiring runner coming to the home turn, with New Maher, now in second place swinging five wide, just two lengths off the long-time leader.

New Maher cut back that deficit halfway up the straight but, no sooner had she reached the lead than her own position momentarily came under threat from a charging Gaelic Thunder ($8.50) who was arriving quickly down the centre of the track, hard to the outside of New Maher.

While New Maher did lay out briefly just inside the 100m mark ... which didn’t help Gaelic Thunder ... New Maher was simply too strong to the line, ultimately winning by a margin of a neat length.

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