Ekstreme Wins Captain Cook Stakes
- Saturday, 05 December 2009 05:45
Four-year-old mare Ekstreme emerged from the pack halfway down the long Trentham straight to capture the Group One Captain Cook Stakes on Saturday.
Trained by Bryce Revell at New Plymouth and ridden by Opie Bosson, Ekstreme surged past the leaders in the run home and maintained a strong gallop to the line to beat the extreme outsider of the field, Veloz, by a long neck.
Fritzy Boy was a neck away third in the $NZ200,000 1600m feature.
Ekstreme, runner-up in Brisbane's Doomben Roses and sixth to Purple in the Group One Queensland Oaks in May, was having her third run this campaign and took her record to five wins from 20 starts.
Favourites Tell A Tale, Culminate and Sterling Prince were the major disappointments in the weight-for-age race.
Prince of Wales, the only three-year-old in the field, also disappointed.
Second pick Culminate did best of the fancied runners with her seventh while the favourite Tell A Tale was eighth, Prince of Wales ninth and Sterling Prince third last of the 15 runners.
