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Mick’s Miss too good in Plate

3rd May 2014

Racing Victoria - by Ben Asgari - Saturday, 3 May 2014

Mick Price unearths a potential Crown Oaks contender in Adelaide

Bargain-buy Cailin Miss has led home an all-Victorian trifecta in the $80,000 Listed Oaklands Plate (1600m) at Morphettville in Adelaide today.

A daughter of Domesday, the Mick Price-trained two-year-old was having only her second race start after finishing sixth behind subsequent ANZAC Day Stakes (1400m) winner Merion in a Bendigo maiden on debut.

Purchased by Price for just $32,000 at the 2013 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, Price said he would now look at aiming Cailin Miss towards a race like the Group 1 Crown Oaks (2500m) in November.

(Pictured is Cailin Miss at Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm before being sold as a yearling)

“You’d have to look at a race like that with her now,” Price said.

“She was a cheap filly and I honestly bought her 100% on type.

“She’s a big, rangy horse that’s got a beautiful set of lungs on her and second up over 1600m as a two-year-old I think that tells you something about her speed.

“She’s had a couple of 600m trials at Caulfield and does not get warm and she went to Bendigo at her first start and was hopeless.

“She’s a big, strong, sound, clean-winded, one-paced filly and now she’s won a Listed race which is great.”

Settling at the rear of the field early, jockey Dean Yendall started to move Cailin Miss ($12) into the race at the 600m mark before she had quickly moved to the outside of the leader Royal Standing ($1.85F) at the top of the straight.

Taking the lead at the 200m mark, Cailin Miss raced away over the concluding stages to record a 2.3 length victory over Royal Standing, with Light Up Manhattan ($4) a further three lengths back in third.

Click here to view the full list of results for the Oaklands Plate or the rest of today’s Morphettville program