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Trainer and jockey quotes following Wishlor Lass winning the Group 3 Powerflo Solutions Tesio Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Race Result:
1st: Wishlor Lass (D Lane/S Wilde) - $2.20F
2nd: Thalassophile (J McDonald/C Waller) - $6.50
3rd: Osmose (T Clark/G Waterhouse & A Bott) - $6.50
Winning Time: 1:35.99 Last 600m: N/A
Margins: 1¼L x ½ Head
Winning Trainer: Symon Wilde (rep by Bill Wilde)
"Symon is at home. He's very shy. He's doing a Paddy Payne, he likes to stay home.
The horse: "She's an absolute beauty and we've got the mare so there is a few progeny coming along.
"A lot of those really good mares, they keep on producing so maybe there is one who'll be as good as her.
"She's got a great physique. A couple of good ones we had earlier were too big and too heavy. They broke down and had little issues but were very talented.
"She's just a perfect shape. She's big, athletic and has got a lovely stayers (build). She'll run in a couple of weeks time at Flemington.
"I don't think leading on her is her best asset. She is better taking a sit and running home. She did that a bit at Caulfield but she was very good today."
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Winning Jockey: Damian Lane
Compared to last start: "I think she was better again today. It just just feels like she's come on from the run again.
"She's a relatively lightly experienced horse so I feel like she's still learning her craft. She just quickened a bit (more), she was more responsive when I asked her today.
"Great placement by the team to identify these two mares races for her and she was too good again."
Her assets: "Probably her natural gate speed. I'd seen a couple pressing and they were being fairly aggressively ridden so I thought, well, if they're going that speed aggressively they're going to have to come back in my lap so I tried, with a big lovely striding mare, she really enjoys that."