Dominic Sutton will look to plot a path towards November’s Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m) with filly After Summer, who led throughout to win the Crown Oaks Preview (1800m) at Flemington on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Sent out as the $14 outsider with just four rivals to beat, Billy Egan landed in front aboard The Autumn Sun filly and was able to sprint off a pedestrian tempo to score by 1-1\/2 lengths over Seychelles ($4.20) with Classic Gem ($5.50) just a further half head away in third.<\/p>\n
The young trainer tasted Group 1 success with Feroce in the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) last year and will consider the best way to get After Summer to 2500m, admitting that the slowly run affair was more of a trial than a race.<\/p>\n
“They were going to crawl and she was up on the bridle, so he did the right thing in letting her stride a little bit,” Sutton said.<\/p>\n
“She got a very soft time in front and when he asked for at the top of the straight, she never looked like getting beaten.<\/p>\n
“We’re still a long way out so we’ll just assess how she comes through today.<\/p>\n
“I’d say it’d be more like having a trial than having a race with the speeds that they went, so she doesn’t look like she’s had a tough run.<\/p>\n
“We’ll get her home and plot a path, and if she takes us there, then great. If not, then we’ll put her away and save it for autumn.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominic Sutton will look to plot a path towards November’s Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m) with filly After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-151007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}