Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX<\/p>\n
Heavenly Gipsy, the only mare in the $31,000 Vale Chris Garrard Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night, proved too speedy for her male rivals, including millionaire superstar Magnificent Storm.<\/p>\n
Gary Hall Jnr set a cracking pace with the $2.65 second fancy Heavenly Gipsy after a solid 36.8sec. lead time and an opening 30sec. quarter before the mare sprinted over the final three 400m sections in 28.6sec., 27.7sec. and 28.7sec. and rated a smart 1.54.7.<\/p>\n
Magnificent Storm, reappearing after a 16-week absence, was the $2.25 favourite from the outside barrier (No. 9) on the front line.<\/p>\n
Heavenly Gipsy dashed straight to the front from the No. 1 barrier, while Magnificent Storm settled down in ninth position before Deni Roberts switched him three wide after 420m to move to the breeze after a lap.<\/p>\n
Magnificent Storm got to within a neck of Heavenly Gipsy with 225m to travel and then moved almost on terms with Heavenly Gipsy 100m from the post. He fought on determinedly to finish third, just a head behind the second placegetter, the $126 outsider Arma Einstein, who raced three back on the pegs before flashing home to finish 2m from the winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cHeavenly Gipsy probably will never beat Magnificent Storm again,\u201d said the mare\u2019s trainer Michael Young. \u201cIt looked for a fleeting moment that magnificent Storm had her, but she dug in and kicked, which is not always easy for a mare to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cHeavenly Gipsy will now go for a little break and will come back for the rich feature events for mares later in the year. And I would say that if she draws to lead in any of those races, she will be awfully hard to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seven-year-old Heavenly Gipsy has raced superbly in WA with her six starts in the State resulting in four wins and a second placing, improving her record to 51 starts for 13 wins, 17 placings and stakes of $148,389.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX Heavenly Gipsy, the only mare in the $31,000 Vale Chris Garrard Pace over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-278792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114888730512615257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}