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Trainer and jockey quotes after Boognish takes out the Group 3 Sportsbet Proud Miss Stakes at the Morphettville on Saturday.

Race Result:

1st: Boognish (W Clarken & N O'Shea/J Kah) - $11
2nd: Right To Party (A & S Freedman/L Neindorf) - $12
3rd: Grey River (J O'Connor/T Pannell) - $7

Winning Time: 1:11.40  Last 600m: N/A

Margins: Neck x Short Half Head

What a thriller in the Proud Miss! @jamieleekah07 gets Boognish home for @Clarken_Racing pic.twitter.com/8e2gRH6yW5

— Racing.com (@Racing) May 11, 2024

Winning Trainer: Will Clarken & Niki O'Shea (Clarken speaking)

Fresh and back in trip: "She deserved to get her black type win, obviously it's come on a big day, we really stepped off her for a while after she didn't find the line over 1500 (metres), applied a huge amount of pressure this week and really screwed her down for today and it paid off."

On Jamie Kah: "I gave Jamie no instructions today, didn't know whether to chance her arm and try and get outside lead or let her balance up and I thought after a couple of hops she was going to go forward and then she got back in a beautiful rhythm, she's just worth so much."

Ownership group: "Santo (Guagliardo) is in this horse, came down today to watch this horse and Extremely Lucky and Chappy's in it as well so, great ownership and a host of other people, it's great to get a result, she's got a huge page. We bought her in Adelaide, she's taken a fair bit of time and it's all going to pay off."

Lightly raced: "She's huge, she just sort of got a bit of structural soreness when she was a young horse, we just couldn't get at her, and when Niki joined the team he rode her a lot himself and we really got her going and she actually won her first start at big odds which is unlike the stable. Then she went missing for a little while, then we got her going again and we worked out what her trip is today."

Potential plans: "Just let the dust settle. With the farm we can back off them without going to the paddock, if she does it'd only be for a short amount of time and then logical would be she'd come back for the Spring Stakes and plan something out for Melbourne."

Winning Jockey: Jamie Kah

Right down the outside: "It was quite funny because the one thing Will said not to do is just don't give her a squeeze because she's flying, and I gave her a squeeze because she was taking a while to pick up and she just took off, and I was five, ten, twenty wide around the home corner and she wasn't entitled to win that and she won super."

Best kept to sprinting: I've won on her here before, she ducked up on the inside, her turn of foot is massive and I think this trip really suits her, I know they stretched her out but I think keeping her fresh and keeping her at this trip, if she runs like that every time, I think they're doing something right."