Perfect ingredients equals winning recipe
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Joe Bowditch secures the Keith Noud Quality with Forestreno (Noel Pascoe photo)
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Six and a half kilos lighter than last start plus a good barrier draw proved to be two of the key ingredients in Forestreno’s Eagle Farm run on the weekend.
Add a perfect ride by jockey Joe Bowditch and you have a recipe for a winning race.
Forestreno (G7 Shinko Forest-Santreno Lass) added the $100,000 Pepperjack Keith Noud Quality Handicap 1200m to his career record for Grafton trainer Phil McLeod.
McLeod was quick to praise Bowditch for his ride which picked up $64,000 for connections.
“He was ridden perfectly. Joe Bowditch rode him exactly the way I told him to,” McLeod said.
McLeod regularly heads to Brisbane with the horse and is rarely out of the prizemoney although the horse has been falling short of the winning cheque recently.
“He just hasn’t been drawing very well. He had a lovely soft run (on Saturday) and the six and a half kilo weight drop was massive,” McLeod said.
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Trainer Phil McLeod was at Eagle Farm for Forestreno’s win (Noel Pascoe photo)
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“He just happened to be the right weight (53kg), drawn good (barrier three) and ridden perfectly.”
Forestreno finished half a length ahead of Cocktail Supreme (Brad Pengelly) with Black Ink (Jason Taylor) a short head behind for third.
McLeod bred the seven-year-old and his wife Vicki has a share in the ownership which has seen the horse earn over $245,000 in prizemoney.
“I’ve always had a good opinion of him. He’s no champion but he is honest. That’s all you need,” McLeod said.
“I have some of the best owners, one’s my wife and they just leave me alone and let me do my job.”
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