Family link continues to pay for Forster

Wednesday 18 September 2013, 5:08pm

Trainer Desleigh Forster says Wednesday's Doomben winner Willow Mist is a lot like her dam Mardi Gras.

Forster trained Mardi Gras to win three races and believes Willow Mist has inherited many of her dam's qualities.

"She's got a beautiful action like her mother and I reckon her racing pattern will end up being the same," she said.

Willow Mist, the $2.70 favourite, led all the way to win the Cbus Super Stakes (1200m) by 1-1/4 lengths from Isla Poppy ($3.60) but Forster isn't keen to repeat those tactics in the future.

"I reckon she'll be a better horse when you ride her with a sit," she said.

"In the better quality races when there's speed on her I'd like her ridden that little bit quieter.

"Her mother was the same. If you led on her she wouldn't finish off but if you rode her quiet she'd really attack the line and I think this filly is no different."

Forster recently took over the training of Willow Mist's older sister Tail Of A Diva who left Peter Moody's stables following her Kembla Grange win last Saturday.

Winning jockey Michael Cahill said Willow Mist's lack of size was compensated by her fighting attitude.

"She's got the right temperament but just lacks a bit of height," he said.

"But she's a tough, competitive little thing and when horses get close to her she wants to race them.

"She's got the mental toughness and right attitude to make a good racehorse."

Cahill flies out of Brisbane on Thursday with fellow Brisbane jockeys Ryan Wiggins and Jim Byrne to compete at the inaugural China Horse Club meeting at Hohhot, Inner Mongolia on Saturday.

High-profile Singapore jockeys Joao Moreira and Danny Beasley will also be riding at Saturday's feature race meeting which is the highlight of the China Cultural Equine Festival.

– AAP

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