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Promising Elusive Q Sprinter Takes Aurie’s Star

7th Aug 2010

Elusive Touch continued his rise through the ranks when taking out today’s Group 3 Aurie’s Star Handicap at Flemington.

ELUSIVE TOUCH ($800,000 2007 Easter, 5g Elusive Quality-Shelbourne Lass) was bred by Limerick Lane Thoroughbreds and secured by Tim Martin from the Darley Stud draft.

Transferred to the Mark Kavanagh stable early this year, he is now the winner of four races in nine starts, with the promise of more to come, having won a race long regarded as a springboard to spring stardom.

Elusive Touch showed promise under Martin in Sydney, winning at Rosehill last December, but has taken a real shine to Melbourne, in particular the straight six at Flemington, where he has now won twice and been an unlucky second in his only other run.

He becomes the first stakes winner for former dual Group 3 winning Brocco mare Shelbourne Lass, who has the perfect record of all three runners to date being winners.

It is the family of former Champion New Zealand 2YO Vinaka and multiple Group 2 winner Skoozi Please.

It capped a good day at Flemington for Easter graduates by Elusive Quality.

Earlier, Darley’s promising three-year-old CENSOR ($150,000 2009 Easter, 3c Elusive Quality-Glasnost) made it three wins from as many starts in winning over 1400m.

Censor is a descendant of the great Emancipation from a family that includes Caulfield Cup winner Railings, one-time record priced multiple Group 1 winning mare Virage De Fortune and last season’s three times Group 3 winner Avenue.