Orion strikes career win #3 for Moody

Mercurial Performance From Mare

Capable mare Mercury Mistress made a triumphant return from injury at Ellerslie where she accounted for her Rating 90 sprint rivals. The WS-bred and sold four-year-old had had been given a break since she was galloped on when unplaced in the Gr 2 Rich Hill Mile on New Year’s Day and came back full of enthusiasm.

“She’s a stakes-winning mare with plenty of ability and she came in fresh and with a lot of speed in the race it suited her,” Matamata trainer Lance Noble said. “Her long-term aim will be the Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 1) at Te Aroha.

Mercury Mistress settled of the pace and made a strong run four off the fence in the straight to post the fifth win of her career. “She’s very honest and we got into a nice spot and she never stops trying,” rider Alvin Ng said.

By No Excuse Needed, she is out of the winning Centaine mare Flytaine from the family of Gr 1 Avondale Gold Cup winner She’s A Meanie, Mercury Mistress was a $20,000 purchase out of WS’s Select Sale draft to Karaka in 2008 and is raced by Sydney-based racing journalist Rob Burnet with his father Alan and Alan and Colleen Jackson. Last season she was successful in the Listed NZ Bloodstock Air Freight Stakes at Riccarton.

Recent News
7 June 2023

THE CORNER WITH GARRY CHITTICK

Well, I attended the recent Entain presentation on their way forward. In essence, it is simply that they will do it better. Their technology, we are told, is the best, sad about the platform that …

Read More
6 June 2023

Smart ride brings out best in Tivaci’s son

A canny ride from Billy Egan guided the well-bred Do I to a second career victory when he wassuccessful at Seymour on Tuesday afternoon. The Michael Moroney-trained four-year-old settled three back on the fence and …

Read More