Morphettville Races Pictorial Report
- Monday, 19 April 2010 00:14
With four stakes races on the card, Saturday's meeting at Morphettville provided some valuable insight for Super Sunday in the first week of May.
The Peter Moody-trained Returntosender won the feature race of the day, the $150,000 Group 2 Queen Of The South Stakes (1600m), ahead of Marchelle Belle and the fast finishing Amberino.
Amberino is now expected to tackle this Saturday's Group 2 Emancipation Stakes (1600m) at Randwick, a race she won last season.
Red Colossus announced himself as the horse to beat in the upcoming Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) by stretching his winning streak to three in the $70,000 Listed Chairman's Stakes (2014m).
Meanwhile, the Mark Kavanagh-trained Catapulted booked a berth in the Group 1 Goodwood (1200m) with a dominant win in the $100,000 Group 3 DC McKay Stakes (1100m).
In the other stakes race of the afternoon, six-year-old gelding Naughty Boy won the $70,000 Listed Japan Trophy (2500m) giving jockey Adrian Patterson his first stakes victory for the season.
To view all the action from Morphettville on Saturday, click on the link below.
http://www.barnesphotography.com.au/mop170410/page1.htm
