Aloft far too strong in Flemington victory

Saturday 3 March 2018, 2:35pm

The new trainer in charge of six-time Melbourne Cup winning owner Lloyd Williams has hit the ground running.

Since taking over at the helm of Macedon Lodge following the resignation of Robert Hickmott last year, Liam Howley has produced three runners for Williams, registering two wins and a second.

After an opening quinella at Caulfield last week, Aloft was victorious in Williams' colours in the Roy Higgins Quality at Flemington on Saturday.

Ridden by Ben Melham, Aloft ($3.50) scored by a length from Fanatic ($4.60) with Ormito ($4.80) a head away third.

Nick Williams said he hoped the good autumn form of the stable can continue at Flemington next week.

"It would be great if we could get a horse or two for this Super Saturday meeting next Saturday," he said.

The Taj Mahal, Almandin and possibly Homesman will line up in the Group One Australian Cup next week.

Williams said the Sydney Cup at Randwick next month was Aloft's target.

Melham said Aloft didn't come up last preparation while also doing things wrong in his races.

"They're tying his tongue down now and it seems to be really helping him," Melham said.

"Nevertheless its still a fantastic training effort to produce a horse at 2600 metres first up.

"The way the race was run probably played into his favour.

"I knew if he we soft half he'd have a better turn of foot than them."

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »