10 August. Invercargill. And the story continues ...
We left little EMILY crowned in her Winter Winner glory and gown ...
https://kurtofgerolstein.blogspot.com/2025/07/emily-winter-winner.html
But the winter isn't over yet, Emily is (age: six) in the form of her life, and the powers that plan have put on a well-endowed 'Southern Surge' series ... so, you have to have a shot at it, don't you, before you go out for a wee spell on that nice, green spring grass ...
The first round of heats didn't quite go our girl's way, and none of the trio of southern tipsters made her their favourite for the second round ..
What did the public think?
Well, the four tipped horses were all backed down to from $3 and something to $4 and something, a situation which fluctuated and finally, and perhaps a little surprisingly, ended up with MIXED FAITH and BLACK PAT on the first line of betting, and LI'L WHIP and EMILY on the second.
Come 11.45am (Australian time), Paul and I switched on that splendid new toy 'Face Time' and joined Wendy in front of the Gerolstein television ...
Kirstin got Em away excellently and ... BLACK PAT galloped! Into the first turn, team Gerolstein kept the lead, but there was no way she was going to stay there ...
Both MIXED FAITH and LI'L WHIP are, these days, proven front runners, and, sure enough down the back the first time, first one, then the other zoomed up to head the field ...
EMILY third. OK, please don't let the other three come round the outside and squeeze us back to last!
Of course, that was exactly what they did!
As the final bend came up, things looked (from Australia) a little bit compromised ...
As LI'L WHIP set sail for the finish line, our little lady was looking for a way out ...
And she found it! And she stuck her little neck out, as she typically does ... and, as the race-caller wowed at her acceleration ... and as we went up from 'hoping-for-third-or even-second' ... simply steamed past her two rivals ..
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| photo by Monica Toretto |
EMILY's 8th win. Her first at Invercargill. Her fastest winning mile-rate. Her fifth in the short time since she joined Kirstin's stable, just a year ago ... my 61st as an owner ...
My fifth win, a quarter of a century ago was with GWEN. EMILY's great-grandmother.
Well, little girl, you sure have earned your grass-time!
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