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Quality career may continue

24th Jul 2013

Racing Victoria - Brad Bishop - Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Ominous Quality might have extended her career with her resounding win in the $35,000 Download The Sportingbet App For Mobile Handicap today at Sportingbet Park (Sandown).

Co-trainer David Feek revealed after the win that the 1600m event was scheduled to be the rising five-year-old’s 17th and final start, but he and training partner David Brideoake might have to reconsider.

“The plan was probably to retire her and go to the stud, but after that win I’m tempted to go again,” Feek said.

“We’ll go back and speak to the connections and make a decision.”

Ominous Quality, a daughter of Elusive Quality, dominated her rivals in the benchmark 82 event for mares aged four and above to record her fourth career win.

After cruising to the front midway down the long Sandown straight, the $4.80 chance careered away late to win by 3-1/2 lengths from Treasury Notes ($21) with $71 chance Mayneda Strategy three-quarters-of-a-length back in third.

It was a performance that justified the pre-race confidence of Dwayne Dunn, who rode her at her previous start when a six-length fifth behind Halfblood Prince at Sandown on 14 July.

“Her run the other day was very good and she presented nicely (today),” Dunn said. “I thought she ran out of petrol against the boys, but today, back to her own sex, I thought she was probably and even-money chance.”

The victory was Dunn’s 44th Victorian city winner of the season and edged him within two of Luke Nolen, who sits second behind Glen Boss on the Victorian Metropolitan Jockeys’ Premiership table.

Ominous Quality (4m Elusive Quality x Noircir) was a $60,000 purchase from the draft of Swettenham Stud at the 2010 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.