Meuse makes it two wins from two starts

Saturday 6 April 2019, 1:04pm

A step up to stakes grade looms for two-year-old Meuse after the talented filly made it two wins from as many starts with a city success at Caulfield.

The Anthony Freedman-trained Meuse won comfortably on debut in a Bendigo maiden on March 19 and stepped out again in Saturday's Thomas North Handicap (1100m) for two-year-olds at Caulfield and knuckled down to her task late to win narrowly.

The stable has pinpointed the Group Three Breeders' Stakes (1200m) in Adelaide on April 27 as the first chance for the daughter of Snitzel out of Precious Lorraine to try to secure valuable black-type.

Ridden by James Winks, Meuse, the $3.60 favourite, sat in behind the leaders and took all of the straight to reel in debutante Flostar ($8.50) to score by a short head with Memphis Rock ($7) another three-quarters of a length away third.

"It was a good effort," Freedman's racing manager Brad Taylor said.

"She still wanted to do a few things wrong and needed every inch of the 1100 metres to get there.

"She is a filly who will progress on and we'll have a crack at black type now. There's a nice Group Three race in Adelaide coming up for her in three weeks.

"She's a pretty talented filly and deserves her opportunity now. And she will be better when she gets out to the 1200 metres."

Taylor said Meuse could develop into a Thousand Guineas-type filly in the spring.

– 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 »