\n\t\t\t\t\tBy Mary-Jo Jackson<\/b>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Listen<\/p>\n
A well-timed move to Victoria has already paid off for connections of Alpha Sofie (Capitalist), who produced a dominant rail-hugging display to claim the Atlantic Jewel Stakes (Listed, 1200m) at The Valley on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Formerly prepared in Queensland by Jason Edwards, Alpha Sofie arrived at the Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman stable last month with back-to-back Eagle Farm wins under her belt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well-backed into $5.50 on Saturday, she settled beautifully for Zac Spain from barrier four, before cutting the corner on straightening and sprinting clear to score by two lengths over the Ciaron Maher-trained pair Custom (Street Boss) and Salty Pearl (Tagaloa) \u2013 with just 0.1 lengths splitting the stablemates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a commanding performance on Victorian debut, taking the Capitalist (Written Tycoon) filly\u2019s record to three wins from four starts and lifting her prize-money beyond $200,000.<\/p>\n
Coleman was quick to credit Alpha Sofie\u2019s former trainer for her preparation before joining their Pakenham yard.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a filly that\u2019s done really well in her first couple of starts in Queensland, the Edwards stable up there did a fantastic job with her and they sent her down to us in brilliant order,\u201d Coleman told Racing.com. \u201cReally all credit goes to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve only had her for a short space of time and she\u2019s had a few nice pieces of work leading into this, including a jump-out at Pakenham. We\u2019ve been really pleased with the work that she\u2019s done, but to see her come here and do it today, it takes it to another level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connections now have options to stretch the three-year-old out in trip, with the Thousand Guineas Prelude (Gr 2, 1400m) flagged as her likely next step.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s got a beautiful walk on her, she\u2019s just a really lovely filly, naturally very athletic\u2026she\u2019s done everything with ease that we\u2019ve put in front of her so far,\u201d Coleman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say first impressions, hopefully there\u2019s enough horse there still that we can go on with it and maybe look to head towards a Guineas Prelude if she does well after today.\u201d<\/p>\n
A $150,000 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale purchase for Munetos Pty Ltd, Alpha Sofie is the first foal out of the stakes-placed mare Sofie\u2019s Gold Class (Hard Spun), who was also raced by Alpha Sofie\u2019s breeders, the Alford and Holland families. They campaigned both Capitalist and the dam, making Saturday\u2019s win very much a family success.<\/p>\n
Alpha Sofie became the 26th individual stakes winner for Newgate Farm\u2019s Capitalist, whose son Fierce, a $600,000 purchase for Hawkes Racing at last year\u2019s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, struck on debut at Hawesbury on the same afternoon. Ninth on the general sire\u2019s table last season, Capitalist is standing at a reduced fee of $44,000 (inc GST) this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mary-Jo Jackson Listen A well-timed move to Victoria has already paid off for connections of Alpha Sofie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403052","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\/115158252634970892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403052","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=403052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}