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Find out what the jockeys made of their mounts after the Group 2 $300,000 Yarraman Park Reisling Stakes (1200m) at Royal Randwick.
Jason Collett (Erno's Cube): "Credit to the stable and Ciaron, this is a big effort by them. She was there for the first set of trials, first two-year-old race, she's just been in the training set-up the whole time, this is a big day for us today with her a Group Two winner.
"She's a work in progress as we've been saying. She's still a work in progress. The pace didn't seem overly quick early. Jo (stable rep Johann Gerard-Dubord) probably gave me too little instructions, he sort of left it to me and half put the idea in my head of going forward on her, but it's just not her at the moment. She just needs to do things right and when she does it like that, when she relaxes through the middle then she can finish it off.
"She's qualified now, so she'll be worth a crack (in the Slipper). She's in form and although she still does a few things wrong, you'll get a good tempo in the Slipper so probably won't have to worry about that head coming up on me early."
James Mcdonald (Silmarillion): "She was good. Just inexperienced the last little bit. Just found her out against tough seasoned horses."
Tim Clark (Too Darn Lizzie): "Really brave performance. She went down fighting. It was a good effort."
Tom Sherry (Nymphadora): "We had a nice run in transit. Just failed to finish off."
Dylan Gibbons (Miss Busslinger): "Just had to go a bit further back than I would have liked. Shame she didn't settle closer and she would have finished a bit higher up."
Chad Schofield (Extreme Diva): "We had the box seat following the favourite. Obviously we envisaged that horse quickening but it didn't. As a result we got held up."
Sam Clipperton (Reasonable Point): "Really nice filly. I just don't think she has that physical strength at the moment to make a Sydney 2yo but follow her in 3 to 6 months time."
Tommy Berry (Mic Drop): "Plenty of ability. Just doing a lot wrong. It's only her first start and in that sort of grade. When she learns to do things right and relax she has a bit of upside there."
