Adaay In Asia (22/1) provided jockey Dylan Hogan and trainer Harry Dunlop with their first Qatar Goodwood Festival winner in the concluding World Pool EBF Fillies' Handicap.
A win for Adaay in Asia
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In what was a messy race, with a number of horses meeting trouble in running, Adaay In Asia missed most of the scrimmaging and produced a fine late burst to score by half a length.
Runner-up Makarova (8/1) managed to get over to the stands’ rail despite being drawn in stall 1, with the front two three lengths clear of 66/1 outsider Favourite Child.
Dunlop said: “Adaay in Asia is a tough filly, and she was a very good two-year-old as well. We had a little bit of a boring hiccup in the spring with her and she’s just taken her time to come to hand – I hope she is really hitting form now. She loves a strong-run race and obviously there was a bit of scrimmaging, so that worked really well for her.
Explaining the spring hiccup in more detail, he added: “She just got a couple of splints on the inside of her leg, which is slightly unusual for a three-year-old that had run all of her career. I think she’d had nine starts and they popped up. I’d hoped to run her in the All-Weather Finals and it just didn’t happen. Anyway, I would far rather come here and win a race like this today!
She is a filly we really ought to get black-typed. She is good enough to do that I think, and that probably will be the aim to hopefully be a broodmare at some stage. She’s tough and can run regularly, which is nice
Hogan said: “It was pretty smooth from the get-go. You have to hold onto this filly for as long as possible. The last day I rode at Chepstow I went a bit too soon and still won. Today I wanted to just hold onto her for as long as possible. The gap was a bit tight, but she was tough when I needed her. Once we got her out and she got rolling, she was game. When they are willing to win, it’s half the battle.”
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