Lady Lynette Melbourne-Bound For Blamey

Wednesday, 23 February 2011 07:45

Star Tasmanian mare Lady Lynette is headed back to Melbourne for feature autumn races after getting the job done in front of her home state fans in Launceston on Wednesday.

Lady Lynette started a $1.40 favourite in the Listed Vamos Stakes (1400m) and the six-year-old got the better of the Gai Waterhouse-trained Princess Quality to win by three-quarters of a length.

Trained by David and Scott Brunton at Seven Mile Beach in Hobart, Lady Lynette will now progress to the Group Two Blamey Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on March 12.

"After the Blamey she'll then run in the Group Two Sunline Stakes for mares at Moonee Valley and she's unbeaten over a mile at Moonee Valley," Scott Brunton said.

"She has won the Tesio Stakes twice there."

Brunton said Lady Lynette wasn't really suited by the way the Vamos Stakes was run, but labelled the win a terrific effort.

"Sit and sprints are not her caper but she still won," he said.

"They (Lady Lynette and Princess Quality) beat the rest of the field easily so she has done a terrific job.

"Everyone might come here and tell you she's a certainty but there's no such thing in racing. She's won the race and we couldn't be prouder."

The stable also had I'm A Hussey entered for the Vamos Stakes but she was scratched and will have her next start in the Group One Robert Sangster Stakes in Adelaide.

Pictures: Greg Irvine