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GROUP 1 EMPIRE ROSE STAKES \u2013 JOCKEY COMMENTS<\/p>\n
Winning jockey \u2013 Declan Bates (Pride Of Jenni): On the horse: \u201cShe is amazing. She cantered around to the gates so relaxed which is actually a bit unlike her so I was a bit unsure coming around but after a hundred metres in the race I knew we were winning, she got to her top nicely and kept extending every time I asked, I just knew there was nothing that could run us down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe did get tired late, but the job was done, she\u2019s an absolute warrior of a horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can do things on her that you just can\u2019t do on other horses, her ability to sustain a gallop is freakish, for her to keep coming back and doing it year after year, it\u2019s such a credit to everyone involved, Ciaron\u2019s done an amazing job to keep getting her back. Tony and Lynn, wonderful owners who absolutely adore her. To be a part of this horse, it\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Putting on an old movie: \u201cIt\u2019s a movie I would be happy to watch over and over. She\u2019s something special. A horse with her style to keep coming back and reproducing these performances. Everyone involved with this horse, it\u2019s clear they\u2019re doing a magnificent job to keep getting her back. She\u2019s in such a happy place this horse and I knew early on in the race that we were on board.<\/p>\n
How it unfolded: \u201cI don\u2019t try and get wrapped up in the sectionals. It\u2019s about her and allowing her to do it as she feels underneath me. Today, I knew very early on. She didn\u2019t fly the lids, but she quickly came up underneath me, and she was wanting to cross the field, and I took my time getting there and every time I grabbed the bit she wanted to go and at the half-mile she extended beautifully. You can\u2019t ride any other horse like you ride her, but the feeling she gives on these days, is something else.<\/p>\n
Come back and achieve what you have on her: \u201cShe was retired, I was sacked, and that was all good, everyone was OK, but to be standing here, winning another Group 1 is making me emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mark Zahra (Leica Lucy): \u201cYou forget what it feels like to lose. What a great effort. I just needed something to cart me into the race. Never did. Good effort to run second.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben Melham (On Display): \u201cReally good performance by her. I thought she went into the race over the odds, and it didn\u2019t shock me to see her run that well and the best is still to come with her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kerrin McEvoy (Fangirl): \u201cGreat run by her. Obviously, she had a lot of ground to make up. She gave a good finish closest on the line. Great performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tommy Berry (Lazzura): \u201cMassive run by her. Obviously with the gate we decided to run her quiet, but we just didn\u2019t get taken into the race the way I would have liked. I was probably a pair further back than I wanted to be but her last furlong there was mighty. You think you\u2019re getting the rest of the field, and you look up and still Jenni was five (lengths) ahead. She\u2019s a champion mare and she was always going to be hard to beat today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam Hyeronimus (Firestorm): \u201cI thought she\u2019s gone terrific. Obviously Pride Of Jenni has dominated the race but to finish as close as she did on a firm track, she\u2019s going well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Craig Williams (Benagil): \u201cThat mare, the winner, she\u2019s a great mare. Credit to her and her rider and her training group. My horse, she ran well but was a little bit plain today. She could have been stronger through the line.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan Childs (Splash Back): \u201cShe ran as well as she could. She\u2019s a get back horse and Pride of Jenni just breaks them up bit she still hit the line well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jamie Melham (Abounding): \u201cShe ran alright. She did the chasing when Jenni\u2019s breaking horses’ hearts. Just not the ideal race shape for her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blake Shinn (Damask Rose): \u201cWe followed Fangirl. The leader, she\u2019s just a champion. She brings every horse in the race undone and brought mine undone. She\u2019ll come back a lot better in the autumn. She\u2019s a really talented horse and this spring hasn\u2019t been for her. She\u2019s a lovely horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Dee (Idle Flyer): “Disappointing result. Just didn\u2019t help. We knew Pride Of Jenni was going to do something like that, but then we\u2019re having to bring the rest of the field up. Just didn\u2019t suit my mare.\u201d<\/p>\n
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