Moshulu impresses Laming with big win

Wednesday 1 July 2015, 3:20pm

Victorian three-year-old Moshulu extended his Queensland visit with an impressive win at Ipswich on Wednesday.

Moshulu ($2.10) gave trainer Richard Laming the first leg of a winning double when he won the Schweppes Plate (1200m).

Laming has a big opinion of Moshulu who was having his third start after running a fifth and third in Victorian provincial races.

"There is a $100,000 Three Year Old race at the Sunshine Coast on July 25 and he will stay up here for that one.

He will then head back to Victoria and we will see where we go from three," Laming said.

Moshulu was bought for $40,000 by Simon Homann at the Magic Millions Sales.

The gelding is by top sire Show A Heart and races in the Homann family colours of black and white spots and red sleeves which have been carried on winners from Darwin to Flemington.

"The owners have been very patient with Moshulu and they are reaping the benefits," Laming said.

The second leg of Laming's double was Abohar ($3.50) who also races in the Homann colours.

"I don't know if she will have another start in Queensland and we will see how she comes up," he said.

"I still don't know what happened when she got beaten at her only other start at Geelong. She also had to overcome a check today so she shows promise."

Apprentice Luke Dittman completed an unusual double when he won on the Helen Page trained Slippery Saga ($2.70) in the Queensland Times Maiden Plate (1350m).

"Luke won on Slippery Saga's mother Mossvana. He was only 16 at the time," said Page's husband John Page.

"He rode that well because he wanted him to get cover and not get to the lead too quickly," he added.

John Page said Slippery Saga should have won his first race well before Wednesday and had little luck in his previous seven starts.

Trainer Robert Heathcote got a welcome home present when Fortini ($5.50) won the Sky Racing Hcp (1350m).

Heathcote has been holidaying in Europe and arrived back in Brisbane on Wednesday morning. Things have been ticking over in his absence with the stable recording five winners in the three weeks he was away.

– AAP

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