From go to whoa for Rags to Riches
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Glen Colless and Rags to Riches after their convincing win (Noel Pascoe photo)
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Rags to Riches romped home by four and a half lengths in the Listed Phil Sullivan Handicap 1600m after leading the entire race. Funnily enough he had been moved from New Zealand because he couldn’t handle the wet tracks. But on the heavy track at Eagle Farm on Monday, June 9 he relished it.
Ridden by Glen Colless, the gelding raced straight ahead of the field from the jump but no one even came close to catching them.
Belmonte (Michael Cahill) followed in second after a photo finish revealed he was a nose ahead of Majorca (Stephen Baster).
It was the second win for Rags to Riches (G7 Entrepreneur GB-Candescent NZ) since moving to Liam Birchley’s Eagle Farm stables in June last year.
“They sent him here because he couldn’t handle it (the wet track),” said Birchley.
“We rang him on the way to the races, ‘Are you sure it doesn’t handle the heavy?’ ‘No, no, no’.”
In April 2006, Rags to Riches won the Group 1 Easter Handicap in Ellerslie, New Zealand and has so far achieved 12 wins, eight seconds and three thirds from his 55 starts amassing $270,330 in prizemoney.
QUEENSLAND Racing web news: Hollie Roberts – June 10
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