Winning Horse: Gracias Amigo (Aus)

5yoG God's Own (Aus) - Random Act (Aus)(Show A Heart (Aus))

20 starts - 4 wins 1 second 2 thirds 2 fourths $142635

Other Wins

1st Sale Sale Water Specialists (Bm64) 1744m (2021)

1st Bendigo Avis Car & Truck Rental (Bm58) 1600m (2021)

1st Cranbourne Frankston Mazda Mdn Plate 1500m (2020)

Other Placings

2nd Pakenham Synthetic Evergreen Turf (Bm64) 1600m (2021)

3rd Pakenham Synthetic Lely Ctre Robotic Milking-Bm64 1600m (2021)

3rd Pakenham Iron Jack Australian Lagers-C1 1600m (2021)

Race Result:

1st: Gracias Amigo (L McNeil/G Begg) - $18

2nd: Unanimous (J Allen/C Maher & D Eustace) - $4.80
3rd: Hasseltoff (J Kah/R Griffiths & M de Kock) - $10

Winning Time: 1:37.17 Last 600m: NA

Margins: ¾-L x half-neck

Winning Trainer: Grahame Begg

The horse: “The win is very satisfying because he’s a homebred (by father Neville) and the horse has been going really, really well. His Sandown form is terrible, every time I’ve run him at Sandown he’s run disgracefully- Jamie Kah rode him his last start and she said, oh, he didn’t go very well, he might have dogged it a bit back on the inside of horses.

He had a massive drop in weight today , he went from 61 to 54.5 and it does make a difference. The horse has been training really well at home, we came here reasonably confident, even though his form card said otherwise but we really thought the horse had a really nice chance.

On the ride: “He gave him a gorgeous ride today, one out three back and just presented at the right time and he let down.

Today’s race: “Running in the 64s (benchmark) he gets 61 kilos so we thought we’ll put him up in grade and we’ll get a little bit of weight relief, drop him again with the three-kilo claim and he’ll get in really really well.

Winning Jockey: Logan McNeil

First Flemington win: “It’s unbelievable really, to get a winner yesterday and now at Flemington today.

The run: “We wanted to be midfield, no worse and there was quite nice speed on early. He got me in a lovely position. I just had to remind him what the job was at the 800 (metres), he was travelling quite well at the 400 and I knew he was going to be hard to beat. When Johnny Allen’s horse (Unanimous) came up my inside he put his ears back and went again