JASMINE CLINCHES A HAT-TRICK
- John Curtis
- 13 hours ago
- 2 min read
The rapidly improving three-year-old filly extended her “picket fence” to three with an impressive city debut at Warwick Farm today.
A dashing Chad Schofield ride paved the way for Satono Jasmine ($6) to follow up recent provincial victories at Gosford and Hawkesbury to beat her own sex in the Benchmark 72 Handicap (1600m).
Schofield made his move well before the home turn – and it proved a winning one.
He skirted the field on Satono Jasmine, who sustained a long and determined run to defeat Deep Pleasure ($4.40) and Sister Daee ($11) to boost her record to three wins from only seven starts.
Widdup Racing races the Satono Aladdin filly in partnership with her breeder John Clancy.
“If someone had said that Satono Jasmine would win three in a row this early in her career, I would have said no,” Widdup said this evening.
“But nonetheless I have always liked her.
“She is a very well bred filly, being out of a High Chaparral mare (High Spin).
“We won two races with her older half-sister Pro Velocity (by Proisir), but this filly is definitely better.
“Satono Jasmine ran second last at the Beaumont track at her first start last December as a $31 outsider, and hasn’t looked back during her second preparation, improving with each run..
“Normally I wouldn’t have brought her to town so quickly, but it’s the right time of the year to do it and she was against her own sex.
“There’s another race against fillies and mares (a Benchmark 78 Handicap over 1800m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday week.
“But she is nearing the end of her campaign, and I will have to be convinced that she has continued to do well before committing her to it.
“If not she will go for a break, and hopefully will come back even better next time and get over a middle distance.”
Satono Jasmine was Widdup’s 62nd winner of the season, and he expects to have a few runners at his home track’s final meeting on Sunday, striving to retain the Hawkesbury trainers’ premiership he won for the first time last year.
Widdup and Chris Waller are currently tied on 14 wins apiece.
