Swettenham Stud

By Clinton Payne

Bank Robber

The son of Dash For Cash was ridden by Brad Rawiller and was never off the bridle in his 990 metre heat, the gelding handling the Cranbourne training track with ease.

Rawiller steered Bank Robber to a five-length win over the Greg Eurell-trained Go My Girl and the city-performed pair Barwon Express and Tale Of Love.

Hold That Tiger gelding Jungle Wave ran fourth in the Woodbine $1 million Mile Stakes a Grade 1 event early this morning Australian time. In the prestigious turf race Jungle Wave enjoyed the most horrendous trip imaginable. Three wide the entire journey with no cover and forcing the pace in a typically American ride.

Rushing through the first 1200m in 1.09.08 it was no surprise they ran a final stakes record of 1.32.04 for the mile and just missed the all time track record. Jungle Wave was extremely gallant after hitting the front at the top of the long Woodbine straight. In the end he succumbed to 5YO mare Ventura the Breeder’s Cup Fillies and Mares Sprint victor from last year and previously second in this event as a 4YO.

Jungle Wave was beaten in a photo for third by a nose from a horse that sat out the back and got the last run at them. In fact the first three home all came from back off the suicidal pace. The strength of Jungle Wave’s effort was that despite the uninspired ride he beat home the even money favourite Bribon who had a soft run back on the rail and he also accounted for last year’s Woodbine Mile winner Rahy’s Attorney who was another of the favoured runners.

Any sort of conservative ride should see Jungle Wave competitive at the highest level. It is one thing to graduate to Grade 1 racing and it is another to wait for your day in the sun and not just be the raw fodder up front and therefore a sitting duck to the quality gallopers. Particularly, when the Hold That Tiger stock have proved over and again that they like racing as their sire did, back off the speed and conserved for a final scintillating burst. (IR)

She Swings a 3YO Filly ex Stallard (daughter of Last Tycoon stallion Monde Bleu) saluted in impressive style on Saturday at Morphettville in a 3YO sprint. Her last 600m was an exceptionally quick split of 34.06 and she carved out the 1000m in 57.57seconds which is very slick on debut for any young horse.

She Swings

In winning, a cool $29,800 jumped in for the winning owner Di Jolly who had a nice SABIS bonus as well. Husband and trainer Richard Jolly would have enjoyed the win and what better way to get the boss off your back than winning in town. Seriously, the Jolly’s deserved this win after the filly injured a tendon before she was due to be sold. Unable to risk selling a horse with an issue to clients they took the punt themselves and had the Ace Cells treatment. Since resuming She Swings has trialled well, improved in blinkers and now really gone on with it.

The race saw She Swings defeat the Danzero filly, Danseda a Magic Millions Gold Coast $65k graduate and a previous city winner trained by David Hayes. Third was another city winner Believe In More a $50k Inglis Classic filly by leading stallion More Than Ready trained by John Hyam who had three runners in the race. The favourite Chunky Custard by Niello a dual metropolitan winner finished fourth, so the race was a fair test for any debutante.

She Swings is a full sister to Courtier a winning 4YO gelding by Court of Jewels who ran 4th later in the programme at Morphettville in the rating 0-72 1200m handicap beaten 2.1 lengths in a quick 1.09.79. Also trained by Richard Jolly his turn in the winners circle is not far away.

Last week one of the best 3YO fields seen in Perth for a long time with 8 metropolitan winners saw the debut of Adam and Sophie Sangster’s Speech Room a gelding by Court of Jewels from Serendipity. His effort to run 4th just weakening from second in the last few strides was a top debut after making his run five wide on the corner. He runs again in the next week and should prove most competitive with that first run under the belt.