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Love Goes On wins Jack Maher Classic

29th Jul 2015

Border Mail - Chris Young - Wednesday, 29 April 2015

CAULFIELD-trained galloper Love Goes On streeted the field to take out the Jack Maher Classic (1200m) at Wodonga on Wednesday.

Trained by Henry Dwyer, the 10/1 chance charged home to finish two-and-a-quarter-lengths ahead of Prussian Vixen.

Favourite Our Boy Leo finished fourth.

Dwyer said the two-year-old bay gelding's history at the Wodonga racecourse was in its favour on the heavy track.

“He was broken in here and did a lot of early work here, and was able to get in a couple of little gallops on the course proper so who's to say it didn't help him,” Dwyer said.

“He got around the track really well, he's professional and very well educated.

“We were certainly expecting him to run within the top three or four, but we weren't overly confident he'd win.

“But he raced really well, he'd had a go on the wet track at Burrumbeet and got through it there, so the track was the least of our worries.”

Jockey Jacob Rule had few instructions, Dywer said, but rode a near perfect race to hand the gelding its first win.

“From the barrier we couldn't give a lot of instructions, but the idea was to go back and get a bit of cover, and ideally not finish too wide on the track,” he said.

“He did everything perfectly, followed the right horse into the race, got a split at the right time and finished off well.”

Dwyer said Love Goes On would now look towards a 1400-metre race at Caulfield in a month's time, after now being ruled out of any suitable maidens he had in mind in the coming weeks.

Picture: Love Goes On (Not A Single Doubt x Love Train) was a $50,000 purchase from the draft of Supreme Thoroughbreds at the 2014 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.