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GROUP 1 CHAMPIONS MILE \u2013 JOCKEY COMMENTS<\/p>\n
Winning Jockey: Chad Schofield (Ceolwulf)<\/p>\n
Beaten and fought back to win fourth Group 1: \u201cVery gutsy. He jumped really well today, and he took the most out of that good jump and put himself in a more forward position and when the race heated up around the 600 metres, I was still going really well. Mr Brightside was gone, and I had to get off his back and get going. He ambled into it and then he had a good look when he hit the big Flemington stretch for the first time, and he got a bit lost for a while until Pericles got in front of him and then he could see him with his blinkers, and he was the stronger horse late.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you had\u2019ve asked me how I was feeling at the 400, I\u2019d have said it was race over. He ambled up and came into it but in the Flemington straight he put his head up and baulked. That allowed Pericles to get a margin on me, and when he saw him, he went again.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looked tough and hard fought but that gawk at the top of the straight cost him a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prospect of Cox Plate next year: \u201cI\u2019ve got one Cox Plate, I\u2019d love another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Best horse ridden?: \u201cHe\u2019s very good. I\u2019ve been lucky and I\u2019ve ridden some very good ones, but he\u2019s getting better. He\u2019s top class.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still improving: \u201cHe\u2019s got a lot to go, and Joe has done an amazing job with him. He\u2019s a horse that keeps getting better each preparation. He was enormous the other day in the King Charles and today we saw another quality of his, his fighting spirit. It was huge.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to come down and be a part of the carnival here. I\u2019m so proud of the horse and he\u2019s a horse who I believe is incredibly good. It was a race full of quality and a proper race.\u201d<\/p>\n
BEATEN JOCKEYS<\/p>\n
Ben Melham (Pericles): “Terrific run. He was there to win, just got out toughed by a tough bugger on the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason Collett (Stefi Magnetica): \u201cShe copped a bit of a squeeze early, not really comfortable when the pace went on, so to finish where she did, she went very well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Damian Lane (Treasurethe Moment): \u201cShe ran super. To present as well as she did, in that ground, I thought she really toughed it out. She really struggled with her footing over the last four hundred metres, so to run fourth in such a good race, in a testing run race, I thought a really good effort. Just a testing run mile on a heavy track really found her out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Craig Williams (Mr Brightside): \u201cIt\u2019s a shame. He wanted to hang out throughout the race, so he definitely wasn\u2019t at his best. Most importantly he\u2019s come through the race okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ethan Brown (Von Hauke): \u201cHe didn\u2019t handle the conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom Marquand (Lake Forest): \u201cJust hated the ground. We knew he was a top of the ground horse but he\u2019s travelled halfway across the world, so he wasn\u2019t going to scratch, shame so much rain came.\u201d<\/p>\n
Declan Bates (Pride Of Jenni): \u201cShe just hated this heavy track today, a long way out she was sort of dipping and diving underneath me and I just wasn\u2019t able to use that stride to get away; just purely simply hated the ground, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry Coffey (Steparty): \u201cTravelled well but under full pressure at that level, lost his action in the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
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