Winning Horse: After All That

6yoG Time Thief (Aus) - Octavia Belle (Aus)(Octagonal (NZ))

20 starts - 5 wins 3 seconds 4 fourths $283710

Other Wins

1st Taree Hydra Hose Summer Cup (Bm70) 1250m (2016)

1st Beaumont (Newcastle) Newcastlebasketball.Com.Au-C2 1150m (2016)

1st Wyong Twin Lakes Air Pty Ltd Hcp-C1 1200m (2015)

1st Scone Segenhoe Stud Mdn Plate 1100m (2015) (Debut Run)

Other Placings

2nd Randwick Country Championship Final 1400m (2017)

2nd Scone Country C'ships Wild Card (C5) 1300m (2017)

2nd Gosford Rheem (Bm65) 1100m (2016)

Race Result:

1st: After All That - $11.00

2nd: Suncraze - $2.70F

3rd: Bring A Secret - $21.00

Winning Time: 1:22.40 Last 600m: 35.09

Margins: ½ head x 1¼ lengths

Winning Trainer: Rodney Northam

On the win: “He’s a really good, honest horse. He tries his heart out. It’s brilliant. We ran second in the Country Championship but this has just eclipsed that, it’s really good.”

On Robert Thompson: “We’ve been together for a while and he has pulled out one of his special ones today. [The shortest way home is the fence] That’s what he always says.”

On the colours: “Where There’s A Will is a charity that was instigated to educate people with depression. It’s something they have put into schools, they go around educating people, more in the Upper Hunter, and hopefully it will expand from there. It’s a really good charity and hopefully they will get some publicity from this.”

Winning Jockey: Robert Thompson

On the win: “Special thanks to my trainer Rod who has really mapped this race out a long time ago for this horse and it has all paid off.”

“It is like winning The Everest for us battling country people.”

Beaten Jockeys:

Kerrin McEvoy (Bring A Secret): “Good effort with top weight. Very tough.”
Grant Buckley (Galaxy Warrior): “Really good run. I think it was just the weight that anchored me down late.”
Tye Angland (Delightful Feeling): “Good run. Just needed a little bit more room up the straight.”
Ms Rachael Murray (Exitozo): “Went super. Got a really good run in transit and tried his best.”
Josh Parr (Le Cavalier): “Really strong effort. He’s knocking on the door.”
Adam Hyeronimus (Darts Away): “Nice run.”
Hugh Bowman (Pumpkin Pie): “Had no luck. Had no room.”
Andrew Adkins (Cogliere): “A lot better run with blinkers on up to the 1400m. He’s looking for the mile now but I like the way he ran through the line, he was very good.”
Tim Clark (Puzzling Wonder): “He was just a bit aggressive with the blinkers on.”
Corey Brown (Suncraze): “Ran well. Big weight but he hit the line good.”
Ms Rachel King (Gentleman Max): “Just a bit of a tough run from the gate.”
Jamie Spencer (Rosaruby): “Ran well. Needs further.”
Adrian Layt (Not For Export): “Caught wide. Didn’t run on.”

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