Off to Ascot...and the saddle slips

The Dog was racing as well as ever over the shorter distances, so we lined him up for a city run over 1400m. We opted for a claimer to get weight relief and improve our chances. All our plans came unstuck when the saddle of Jessica Valas slipped at the 1000m mark. This was not a happy day. Traveling down all that way for such a silly mis-hap had Clive without words. A little digging around we found out that there were quite a number of apprentices sporting new fly weight saddles with elastic webbing. They had been banned unofficially. Our hard-earned hit the dirt with not even a story to tell.

Win # 11 the Diab Engineering Sprint, 1200m

After 1 run then a trial, we lined the Dog up against the Gero sprinters. Although he carried 59kg
he still jumped out as $2.9 fav and was always traveling well enough to win. Coming around the bend he was just off the pace, then took the split through the fanning pack and punched through to win.