Cocktail revels in wet
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Cocktail Supreme (outside) and Mandy Radecker glide home for a feature win (Noel Pascoe)
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Honesty and hard work paid off on Saturday, July 5 for Mandy Radecker when she guided Cocktail Supreme to a well deserved win in the Listed Ascot Handicap 1300m at Eagle Farm.
It was the second Listed win for the apprentice jockey who is also battling out the metropolitan premiership with Michael Palmer.
Radecker rides Cocktail Supreme (G4 Dane Supreme-Royal Gal) at trackwork and trainer Pat Duff was pleased her commitment paid off.
“She’s been a major player with the horse in his training and has ridden him right throughout his training work,” Duff said.
“His owners were appreciative of that factor and they wanted to give her the opportunity coming into the end of the season that would hopefully give her a ride that might assist her in her premiership.”
The win was also a welcome relief for the trainer who has had to watch Cocktail Supreme run second in several Black Type races including the Listed Glasshouse Handicap 1400m, Listed Eye Liner Stakes 1350m and Listed Weetwood Handicap 1300m this year.
“It was honesty in racing being rewarded,” Duff said.
Jumping from barrier seven, the gelding made the heavy track look easy recording a four and a half length win over $3.70 favourite Alverta (Sean Cormack). Felixtinidad (Joshua Jones) was a further length back in third.
“I suppose the outside draw in the end was a plus because he didn’t get in on that softer ground,” Duff said.
“Prior to the race we felt that he would handle the soft going because I believe his mother was quite good in the wet. Other than that he had never contested a track as wet as that was but we felt confident that that would not be a disadvantage to him and it proved that way.
“I think he certainly revelled in it and I think he went through it as good as any horse you could ever see.
“I spoke to Mandy Radecker and she couldn’t believe how sure footed he was in it. He didn’t seem to even give you the feeling that he was running on a wet track, he was just going through it with such ease.
“Once he drew outside we decided that the pace of the race was probably inside him and it was a matter of sitting outside those and the wider they went we had to make sure he was wider. It fell into line perfectly and the result was good.”
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