A Black and Dirty win
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A very happy Ron Goltz returns to scale aboard Dirty with a Black type win (Noel Pascoe photo)
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The Patrick Sexton-trained Dirty won her first Black type race in the Listed Nestle Vo Rogue Plate 1350m at City Pacific Doomben on Saturday, March 15. It was also the filly’s first metropolitan win.
Ridden by Toowoomba jockey Ron Goltz, Dirty (F3 Hussonet USA-Weaver of Words GB) ran back in the field close to the inside. As they got to the home turn, she moved to the outside and then with a very quick bolt, dashed to the front to win by half a head in front of Swiss Ace (Jason Taylor).
Pepperwood (Jason Holder) claimed third by a half head while race favourite and race leader Chinchilla Rose (Peter Wells) settled for fourth by half a length.
Oakey trainer Patrick Sexton thought the win was great. “It was definitely her best run in her career so far and very well ridden by Ronnie. It made for a great day,” he said.
“When she drew four and Ronnie, he knows her pretty well, he said, ‘Look I think I’ll just give her a little squeeze when she comes out and just see where she’ll be and have her comfortable and let her come into the race when she’s ready.’ It was just nearly a ten out of ten ride.”
“Honestly I must say watching the race you’re always nervous and you’re hopeful that everything will fall into place, but when they got coming to the 600m and I saw him start to come out and move into it and thinking back the week before how far back she was and how quick she got home with the sectionals, I knew she’d had a nice run in transit. I was quietly confident, I thought she’s going to really run home well, not thinking she’d win but I knew she’d be right in the race.”
From nine starts, Dirty has won four and raced a mean second in her previous start. Sexton was tremendously happy with his latest win. “She’s absolutely propelled in each start and as I’ve been quoted before when Ronnie won on her at Ipswich (Feb 14), it was a fairly average field, but it’s the way she won and what she did. He came back and said that day ‘Patty I think this is a really good filly’ and because she’s still very green, she’s just gone on in leaps and bounds.”
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