Outsider Wins The Telegraph
- Saturday, 23 January 2010 06:04
Vonusti has surprised a star-studded field to win the $NZ1 million Group One Telegraph Handicap at Trentham.
Australian A Gold Trail, winner of the Railway in Auckland on New Year's Day, led as expected but was found wanting over the final stages and finished last.
In contrast, Vonusti and veteran jockey Noel Harris made it look easy.
Vonusti was about 12 wide as the field streamed into Trentham's long straight, heading straight into a stiff southerly.
The gelding unwound a devastating sprint in the centre of the soft track where the going looked best and bolted in to score by two lengths.
Tootsie charged out of the pack close to the rail to take second, edging out Stupendous.
The winner is trained at Cambridge by Tim and Margaret Carter.
Kiloton, a former Australian, now trained in New Zealand by John Sargent, was fourth ahead of another Australian sprinter Keano, trained by Danny O'Brien at Flemington.
