Pins filly realising her potential

27 February 2016

Morse Code

The well-related Morse Code completed consecutive victories at Otaki with a stirring performance there today. The Pins three-year-old was second in the running before she exploded clear in the run home to win easing down by two and a half lengths.

“She’s always showed plenty of potential and it’s just been a matter of race practice to get her manners right,” owner-trainer Tom Perry said. He purchased Morse Code for $9000 out of WS’s National Weanling Sale draft to Karaka in 2013.

Out of the O’Reilly mare Really Reputable, Morse Code is a three-quarter sister to the Australian Group Three winner Stickpin.

The Corner with Garry Chittick

I keep on proposing my retirement from the burden of a weekly Corner. I make the excuse it is hard to be credible, hard to let the two of you know about anything in our sport that hasn’t been covered before.

27 October 2025

WS-bred On The Lash scores at Sha Tin

Twenty-four hours following the final WS Cox Plate meeting run on the Moonee Valley track of old before it shuts for two years to make way for a new precinct, the race’s 2004 winner, Savabeel, continued his roll of runners, and this time it was via five-year-old On The Lash (ex Candelabra) at Sha Tin.