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Trainer and jockey quotes after Foxy Frida wins the VRC Member Brian Lindsay Trophy at Flemington on Saturday.
Race Result:
1st: Foxy Frida (D Moor/A Noblet) - $11
2nd: Japery (B Egan/P Payne) - $17
3rd: Four Leaf Riot (F Kersley/S Cameron) - $2.70F
Winning Time: 1:24.28 Last 600m: 34.90
Margins: 1¼L x ½ Head
Winning Trainer: Andrew Noblet
"She hasn't really run a bad race and she always puts herself thereabouts. Bad draws have hampered her a couple of times and she was terrific today. Nice ride by Daniel, sweated on a run there. I thought it was going to be another hard luck story but got the break at the right time and ran well.
"Rapt to get an inside draw with her, been waiting for one of them and to be able to sit in the first four or five to put herself there easily. She's a quality horse maturing and getting better with every run.
"She'll probably stick to the Silver Bowl series and work our way through there. She's worked on heavy ground at home and she's got through that well. Looks like a nice horse through the winter.
Tempted to stretch to 1600m: "On that, yes."
Winning Jockey: Daniel Moor
"She just took a little bit to get going. I had ride back to go in, or what appeared to ride back to go in, behind Four Leaf Riot. He dragged us a long way and took us out of a trouble spot of about 100 metres when I came off the bridle and really needed to rally.
"But Four Leaf Riot went to shift out when we shifted off heels and we went back to the inside. She was really soft in the finish. She deserved this win today.
"She's relatively untapped. You could make a case that she could be unbeaten at this stage. She hasn't had the best of luck or the rub of the green. But she was effective today, she won quite soft. I think there's improvement in her but just pleased to ride a winner for Andrew Noblet."
1600m: "I don't know a great deal about her, it's my first ride. But when she dumped the bridle there at the 350 I needed to ride her through it. That tends to swing the way of wanting more ground which is encouraging. I just think she's a nice filly going forward."