Sparkling Run From Sequin

30 April 2012

Sequin took her game to a higher level at Te Rapa on Saturday when she left a hot field of Rating 75 sprinters in her wake and with no excuses. The four-year-old bounded straight to the front and, after easing clear on the turn for rider Michael Coleman, she was never threatened in the straight for a convincing victory.

“It was a very good effort in a strong field,” Matamata trainer Graham Richardson said. “Last time out she was a bit unlucky when she had a niggle in the gates and she’s really is a front-running horse.” Sequin had finished seventh at her previous appoearance at Ellerslie where she was tardy out of the barrier.

Bred and raced by WS, she is a daughter of Pins and the Listed Rotorua Stakes winner Glitzy and a sister to mutliple winner and Gr 3 Hawkesbury Cup placegetter Glintz. “We’ll keep her going now until the weather turns completely,” said Richardson, who believes Sequin can add black-type to her record of four wins in the future.

The Corner with Garry Chittick

It is not the easiest role, that of Chairman of our Thoroughbred Racing Board. Like all chairmanships, one’s mind is rarely not occupied with the responsibility. To our Chairman, I say thanks. A lifetime in the industry, Chairman of our largest club, it is difficult to identify someone more suited to the role.

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