LES’S GIRL WINS AFTER MOTHER OF ALL BATTLES
GOLD Coast mare Snapchat Girl looked to be “in all sorts” of trouble halfway down the straight in the $50,000 Mother’s Gift (1400m) at Grafton yesterday before storming home late for an electrifying win.
In an almost carbon copy of the finish to the previous day’s Ramornie Handicap when Havasay grabbed Star Boy on the line, Snapchat Girl did the same to Bedtime Stories.
The Allan Kehoe -trained Bedtime Stories looked home when the Port Macquarie filly led into and down the long Grafton straight.
However Snapchat Girl, a striking chestnut filly trained by Les Kelly at Bundall, finally saw daylight and was able to swoop.
“I couldn’t get out,” jockey Anthony Allen told trainer Kelly and owner Les Cowell.
“I thought she was in all sorts,” Kelly agreed.
“It’s great to train a winner for Les (Cowell) down here. He comes from here.”
Gold Coaster Cowell said his mother was from Grafton and he loved going to the northern NSW town to support the Clarence River Jockey Club.
“We won a Grafton Cup a few years ago too,” he said of Warrior Within’s 2011 Cup success.
It was Snapchat Girl’s fifth win from 22 starts and she will now head back to a Brisbane campaign.
“She looked like being a real good horse early on,” Kelly said of the Lope de Vega four-year-old.
“She was a promising twoyear-old but then lost form and went for a spell.
“She also went to Sydney for a while but has come back here now.”
Kelly, who has 36 horses in work at Bundall, said he hoped Snapchat Girl could continue her winning form.
However, he hopes he doesn’t have to sit through races like yesterday when she was held up with nowhere to go for a long while in the straight.
Kelly’s Freddie Fox Trot finished a close third in the Ramornie on Wednesday.