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Grey Adds to Stakes Tally

Grey Adds to Stakes Tally

Group 1 winner Saint Emilion (Mastercraftsman-Roseario by Pentire) added further stakes success to his record with a typically courageous front running performance to win the Group 3 (2000m) Coca Cola Canterbury Gold Cup at Riccarton on Saturday afternoon.

The ghostly grey, who didn’t make his reserve when part of the LA draft at the 2013 Karaka Premier Sale, was headed with 200m to go in the Riccarton feature but fought back to win and take his stake earnings to nearly 450k for his owner Mike Brown.

Little Avondale Stud
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First and foremost, stockman and people whose interest in the animal translates into an innate ability to read how a horse will develop. I’ll see a foal at LA and Sam or Buzz will tell me how they expect it to develop. I’ll see it during my Karaka inspections 12 months later, and you could blow me over with a feather
Danny Rolston - NZ Bloodstock, Karaka