The Price is Right - Simon Sizzles at the Bridge

Tuesday, 28 January 2003 00:00

Brilliant South Australian jockey Simon Price was the star at yesterday's Murray Bridge meeting taking riding honours with five winners.

But it's not the first time the Barossa Valley based senior rider has dominated a program. Price himself thinks it was the fifth such occasion he'd scored five wins.

"I've done it before in the city as well as Balaklava and Gawler," Price told Cyberhorse today. "But day's like yesterday are great there's no doubt about that."

Price teamed up with Lindsay Park's Tony McEvoy to ride four winners with the previously unraced two-year-old Fragmentation clearly the best of his victors.

The leading senior hoop was also aboard the promising filly Living Spirit in her debut at Murray Bridge and he drew comparisons between the two when quizzed.

"She is a very exciting young filly," Price said of the daughter of Snippets. "The other horse got to within about half a length from us and then she just quickened and cleared right away."

On the line Fragmentation scored by a widening eight lengths and her time of 58.3 seconds was impressive considering the ease of her victory.

"There's little doubt there are better wins in store for her (Fragmentation)," Price added. "Living Spirit also won in similar style at Murray Bridge and I think they are very similar. Since her first run there Living Spirit has gone to Melbourne and had a win and a placing."

Fragmentation is set to have her next run in the $400,000 Magic Millions Adelaide Classic at Morphettville on February 19.