Treymane's Tactics the Key for Kiwi Sprinter
- Thursday, 13 February 2003 00:00
The riding tactics of top New Zealand female
jockey Cathy Treymane will play a big part in the result of Saturday's feature race at
Morphettville - the Group 2 Swettenham Stud Stakes for fillies and mares.Treymane will partner classy mare Our Egyptian Raine - a Group 1 winner of the Railway Handicap at Ellerslie (pictured) - for trainer Kenny Rae. Making her task more difficult is the barrier draw for the free-running mare - barrier 13 - in the high-pressure sprint.
"She drew an outside gate in our feature sprint race - the Railway Handicap - and was good enough to win," Treymane said. "She's not an overly big mare but has plenty of grit. A lot of front-runners fold up when tired but she is very brave at the finish and doesn't give in easily.
"The draw makes it tougher but it just depends on how much work she does early and whether she leads or is able to find a position just off the leaders."
Treymane has ridden the mare once for a win in the Listed Karcher Stakes at Pukekohe, but has an enviable record in feature races. She has seven Group 1 successes to her name, including wins in the Railway and Thousand Guineas, along with a string of other feature wins. And as well as riding in feature carnivals in Australia, Treymane has ridden in Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau and the United States.
Last start, Our Egyptian Raine worked hard in the lead to be overhauled at the finish by Tit For Taat in the Group 1 Telegraph Handicap at Trentham, finishing runner-up by a neck.
A nose behind her was another Swettenham Stud
Stakes aspirant, Fair Embrace, prepared by Graeme Rogerson.
Fair Embrace has almost $1 million in earnings and is a winner at Listed, Group 3 and
Group 2 level, as well as Group 1 placed.
The two classy mares are sure to figure in the finish this weekend, but the two knockout
horses may be two lightly-weighted and in-form fillies - Victorian's Brief Embrace and
Dama de Noche.
Brief Embrace, prepared by Peter Moody, carried 60kg to win last start at Caulfield, while
Dame de Noche, trained by Lee Freedman, won the Listed Kensington Stakes down the straight
at Flemington last start. The filly defeated a strong line-up, including River Dove, Umrum
(weight-for-age winner since in Tasmania) and Salinger placegetter Cosmic Strike.
PIC courtesy Trish Dunell.
Media Release - Jason Hickson (TRSA)