Pins Looking Pretty in Brisbane

A hugely successful day for NZ at Doomben kicked off with Pretty Pins (NZ) (Pins) upsetting the field in the Group 3 A$126,100 Landfill Logistics Chairman’s Handicap (2000m).

Pretty Pins (NZ) racing to victory in the Group 3 Landfill Logistics Chairman’s Handicap.

The unexpected victory by the NZ$280,000 Premier Sale graduate was the first of three Group victories by Karaka graduates at Doomben yesterday that included the Group 3 Rough Habit Plate win by Amexed (Pentire) and Group 1 BTC Cup success by Famous Seamus (Elusive City).

The son of Pins started at over $30 on the TAB with a string of unplaced runs this campaign for trainer John Thompson.

After drawing the outside in the 13-horse field, rider Ryan Wiggins skilfully found the rails on Pretty Pins in ninth position. Wiggins stayed patient and when the gap came one horse of the rail the five-year-old mare sprinted to the lead and put the race beyond doubt, winning comfortably by two lengths over Danchai (Authorized) in second and Brave Ali (NZ) (O’Reilly) in third.

“She seems to have thrived back in Queensland,” commented Thompson. “I don’t know whether it is the sunshine or she just feels happy being back here but she has really done well. We put the blinkers on today and maybe that did the trick.

“But if you really want to talk about the race, I would give Ryan twelve out of ten for his ride. He ended up going around one horse in the straight after coming from the outside alley.

“This was going to be her grand final so I suppose we will just have to see what is around for her,”

Yesterday’s win was Pretty Pins’ sixth from 27 starts, having earned A$285,400 in prizemoney for her owner Patinack Farm Racing who purchased her at the 2010 Karaka Premier Sale from Trelawney Stud.

Bred by Cherry Taylor & Trelawney Thoroughbred Ltd, Pretty Pins is out of Group 2 winner Luna Tudor (Military Plume) and is a half-sister to Group 1 Toorak Handicap winner Allez Wonder (Redoute’s Choice).

The first stakes win of Pretty Pins’ career was the 60th stakes win for her sire Pins her also had Rhythm to Spare (NZ)win a Group 3 for him in South Australia yesterday. Pins has 10 weanlings catalogued in NZB’s National Weanling Sale tomorrow (12 May).