Winning Horse: Altai Ranger (NZ)

3yoG Power (GB) - Coronado's Pride (Jpn)(Coronado's Quest (USA))

11 starts - 4 wins 3 fourths $130083

Other Wins

1st Pakenham Sportsbet Same Race Multi-Bm64 1200m (2021)

1st Werribee Irt (Bm64) 1110m (2020)

1st Ballarat Synthetic Bartlett Blinds Mdn Plate 1200m (2020)

Race Result:

1st: Altai Ranger (Carlene Hefel/John Sadler) - $3.10EF

2nd: Cordilla (Will Price/Danny O’Brien) - $3.10EF
3rd: Mr Tipla (Michael Dee/Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young) - $9.50

Winning Time: 1:17.06 Last 600m: N/A

Margins: Neck x Short Head

Winning Trainer: John Sadler

“When I first saw the acceptances I thought he was a chance. The claim for Carlene (helped) and he has raced well here. Mind you, I’m still surprised he won after seeing Cordilla moving to the outside. He really fought on well and I’m sure the 51 (kilos) had a lot to do with that.

“He’s been racing really well. He belongs to one of our very favourite clients, Dr Tan. I’m just pretty excited to train a winner for him in town.

“He’s fallen in today, with all due respect to the horse, but we’ll just find a similar race for him. I think he can get 1400 metres, that’s probably it. But also very pleased for Carlene Hefel. She’s apprenticed to Julian Welsh who is our horsebreaker and she’s done a fantastic job educating a lot of our young horses and to have her here to ride her first Saturday winner in Melbourne is also a big thrill.”

Winning Jockey: Carlene Hefel

“He bowled along nice and strong and he was pretty brave. He kept finding to the line.”

Did she think she’d hang on: “To be honest, I didn’t. I thought I’d run a brave second but he just dug in and kept fighting back.”