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Trainer and jockey quotes following the Group 2 3 Point Motors Fillies Classic won by Zoe's Promise at Moonee Valley Saturday.

Race Result:

1st: Zoe's Promise (A Kelly/D Cannon) - $10
2nd: Climbing Star (Z Spain/P Stokes) - $4.40
3rd: Do It La (L Nolen/P Moody) - $2.70

Winning Time: 1:40.96    Last 600m: N/A

Margins: Short Nec x 2¾L

The crowd roars as Zoe's Promise makes it two in a row for Daryl Cannon & Alana Kelly pic.twitter.com/9SbLsypz3D

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Winning Trainer: Daryl Cannon

Another win over the carnival: "It's good stuff. She's tough and she showed that all this prep.

"The win at Caulfield, she was tough and she showed it again today.

"It was the plan to get off the rail because Alana had walked the track and said that two or three off the fence was the place to be so before the turn to get there."

Stuck with Alana for this Group 2 race: "She's got a good rapport with the horse and she's going to be a (good) jockey in the future."

His stable: "We only work around eight or ten horses and we do it on our own. Up where we are it is very difficult to find trackwork riders which is a common occurrence across the country but we just do it as we do with ten at the most and it is working."

Winning Jockey: Alana Kelly

"That's terrific. That's what you work for. And to do it for a little team like the Cannons - that's fantastic.

"That track is playing a bit difficult today but we are all trying to ride the best we can off it.

"I thought I'd made a blue coming out so early looking for that better ground on the corner and I knew that Climbing Star had such a good turn-of-foot that he actually put half-a-length on me.

"But she's just so competitive that she pinned them (ears) back and fought well."