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Patience Continues to be Rewarded

28th Aug 2010

Another chapter was added to a great comeback story for former Blue Diamond winner Reward For Effort when he left some of Sydney’s best short course performers standing at Rosehill today.

The Peter Moody trained Reward For Effort franked his status as one of Australia’s most serious sprinters and indeed most desirable stallion prospects when proving too classy in the Group 3 Concorde Stakes.

REWARD FOR EFFORT ($190,000 2008 Premier, 4h Exceed And Excel-Miss Prospect) made it two from two since resuming from a 15 month spell and erased memories of Golden Slipper disappointment at the same venue last year. Moody was adamant Reward For Effort was the best horse in that Slipper, but the heavy conditions worked against him.

The Dynamic Syndications purchase, who was prepared for sale by Basinghall Farm, missed almost his entire three-year-old season but is starting to make up for lost time, with his record now standing at four wins in just six starts.

“He was the best two-year-old colt in the land up to the Golden Slipper,” Moody said.

“It's no surprise to me he has come back. He is just a very exciting colt.

“We have to keep him in one piece and get another Group One on his resume and go from there.”

Winning rider Nash Rawiller said he felt Reward For Effort, whose earnings are closing in on $1million, had a bit up the sleeve, declaring him a serious horse who can go on with it now.

Later in Melbourne, Inglis graduates completed a stakes double courtesy of the consistent Show A Heart galloper Rightfully Yours.

RIGHTFULLY YOURS ($55,000 2006 Classic, 6g Show A Heart-Academy Of Dreams) won his 10th race and third at stakes level when building on his superb fresh record in the Listed Clamms Seafood Stakes.

This win took the Mick Price trained gelding’s fresh record to five wins in eight starts, catapulting his earnings beyond the $500,000 mark.