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Sensational filly Wishing Belle is firmly on target for the $215,000 Westbred Classic on September 5 after she continued on her winning ways with a devastating victory in the Group 2 Trotsynd Diamond Classic for two-year-old fillies at Gloucester Park on Friday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is set for the Westbred,\u201d said ace trainer-reinsman Aiden De Campo after driving the daughter of American sire Bettors Wish to her two-length win over Crunchnsip, rating 1.57.6 over the 2130m journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was relatively easy tonight. She had all the favours, burning straight to the front and getting away with a bit early.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is the full package. As a two-year-old she doesn\u2019t do anything wrong. She doesn\u2019t fire up or get keen. She is a pleasure to train and is getting better and better all the time. Credit is due to Ajay Markham, who has done most of the work with her, coming through as a yearling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wishing Belle, the $1.30 favourite, dashed straight to the front from the No. 6 barrier, and she ambled through the lead time in 37.9sec. and the opening quarters in 31sec. and 30.3sec. before sprinting over the final 400m sections in 28.4sec. and 28sec.<\/p>\n
Crunchnsip ($9) fought on doggedly, while the $8.50 second fancy Im Category Five was a fighting third after working hard out wide early and then in the breeze.<\/p>\n
Wishing Belle, purchased by De Campo for $55,000 at the 2024 Perth APG yearling sale, and raced by a syndicate of several of his stable\u2019s clients, has earned $145,931 from six wins and a second placing from seven starts.<\/p>\n
She is following in the footsteps of her dam Libertybelle Midfrew, whose one win from eleven New Zealand starts was in the $156,000 NZ Sales final for two-year-old fillies when she beat Te Amo Bromac by five lengths at Alexandra Park in April 2013.<\/p>\n
Libertybelle Midfrew raced 40 times in Western Australia for 18 wins and ended her career with a fine record of 51 starts for 19 wins, 11 placings and earnings of $640,497.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Casellas | PACEPIX Sensational filly Wishing Belle is firmly on target for the $215,000 Westbred Classic on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334587","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\/115007658645006433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334587","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=334587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}