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Twelve months ago Mourayan (IRE) won the Listed The Bart Cummings at Flemington to break his duck at his 17th start in Australia and twelve months later added Saturday's Group III Craven Plate (2000m) at Royal Randwick. to kick-start a productive day for team Williams.
The son of Alhaarth needs to be stood over and Hugh Bowman was the right
man for the job.
Two years ago he finished second to Herculian Prince in The Metropolitan(G1) and those two poured on the pace in Saturday's race. When Herculian Prince backed up, Mourayan looked a sitting shot for Western Symbol who joined the battle.
But Mourayan was up to the fight defeating Western Symbol by a head with Dare To Dream finishing strongly for third, a long neck back.
"I really put the pressure on and got him rolling from about the 700," Bowman said.
"When Nash [Rawiller on Western Symbol] came to me and they could only get to within half a length of me I though it's going to take a good horse to beat him because he fights like a caged dog.
"He's a thorough joy to ride."
The former Aga Khan homebred arrived on these shores with some decent form having missed a place just twice in 7 starts, which included a Listed win at Leopardstown.
He was second
to champion Sea The Stars in the Beresford Stakes, albeit beaten 5-lengths, and was placed behind Fame and
Glory in the Ballysax Stakes (G3), Derby Trial (G2) and Irish Derby (G1).
A son of Alhaarth (Unfuwain), Mourayan is a half-brother Mourilyan (Desert Prince) who ran third behind Shocking and Crime Scene in the Melbourne Cup for his controversial owner Ramzan Kadyr.
In his adopted homeland, in a addition to finishing second to Herculian Prince in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1), Mourayan settled for the same spot behind the ill-fated Cedarburg in The BMW Stakes (G1) at Rosehill and to Glass Harmonium in theMackinnon Stakes (G1).
Group 2 - 1200m Class: Open. Track: Good. Time: 1:09.62. Sectional Time: 0:35.05 at 600m. Prizemoney: $175,000 - 1st: $105,000 2nd: $35,000 3rd: $17,500. |
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| 1 | 7. Jolie Bay | M, W & J Hawkes | J Ford (6) |
$9
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54.5 |
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 3f Fastnet Rock
x Legally Bay
(Snippets
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| 2 | SH | 3. Knight Exemplar | J A O'Shea | J B Mc Donald (2) |
$13
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56.5 |
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 3c Exceed And Excel
x Charmview
(Royal Academy (USA)
) Lot 186; 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale; Vendor - Yarraman Park Stud, Scone; Buyer - James Harron Bloodstock / De Burgh Equine
$450,000 |
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| 3 | 1.3 | 1. Your Song | A J Cummings | P Robl (4) |
$3.75
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56.5 |
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3c Fastnet Rock
x Zembu
(Fuji Kiseki (JPN)
) Not Offered |
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| 4 | 2.0 | 5. Ichihara | A J Denham | B Avdulla (3) |
$1.80
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54.5 |
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| 3f General Nediym x Cut A Dash (Whiskey Road (USA) ) | |||||||
| 5 | 3.4 | 6. Queen's Elect | David Payne | J R Collett (1) |
$61
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54.5 |
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| 3f Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) x Grand Story (Grand Lodge (USA) ) | |||||||
| 6 | 4.4 | 2. Destruction | John Thompson | C Reith (5) |
$21
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56.5 |
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| 3c Fastnet Rock x Storm Signal (NZ) (Keltrice ) | |||||||
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