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Clarry regards filly the equal of his Slipper winners

15th Feb 2010

Racenet - Clinton Payne - Saturday, 13 February 2010

Four time Golden Slipper winning trainer Clarry Conners said Georgette Silk is as good as any two-year-old he has trained after the filly cruised home to an easy win in the Listed Widden Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

“She’s as good as any of our Slipper winners,” Conners said. “She’s Golden Slipper bound now and hopefully it comes off.”

Conners along with Victorian trainer Lee Freedman made the Golden Slipper their own from 1991 to 2000 with four victories each in the world’s richest two-year-old race.

Conners claimed the Rosehill Group I with Tierce (1991), Burst (1992), Prowl (1998) and Belle Du Jour (2000).

Ridden aggressively when the gates opened, Georgette Silk went straight to the front and she slowed the field down to a pedestrian tempo before booting away in the straight to record an easy win.

“She got going real quick, has good acceleration,” Conners said. “I love the way she settled, she’s just a lovely filly.”

Conners said he was weighing up two options for Georgette Silk’s next start and it was his intention to keep his star filly away from his promising colt, Decision Time, in the lead-up to the Golden Slipper.

“She’ll either run in the Silver Slipper or the Kindergarten,” he said. “Decision Time is running at Rosehill next Saturday.”

Race favourite Mafia Miss travelled behind Georgette Silk in the run but was unable to match the winners turn of foot in the straight and finished second with the best backed runner in the race, So Detached, getting home from the tail of the field to grab third.

What they said – “She feels very natural and very good. She did everything right and has a big future,” said Blake Shinn, winning jockey.

“She ran well and will improve but the winner was too good,” said Corey Brown, rider of the runner-up, Mafia Miss.

“She had every hope. The tempo didn’t suit but we had no excuses,” said Jim Cassidy, rider of the third placegetter, So Detached.

“It was ok. Further and later for her,” said Kerrin McEvoy, rider of Quidnunc (4th).

“They were a bit hot for her,” said Glyn Schofield, rider of Debut (last).