Impressive First SH Winner for Ribchester

- courtesy of the NZ Racing Desk

The race that launched the career of 2020 Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside (Extreme Choice) may have unearthed another smart juvenile with Godolphin filly Plymstock scoring an impressive victory on debut at Randwick, crediting her sire Ribchester with his first Southern Hemisphere winner.

Watch her impressive performance here.

Trainer James Cummings indicated the youngster would be given every opportunity to race her way into the two-year-old features after taking out Saturday’s Heineken 3 Handicap (1000m) at her first start.

Stay Inside made a winning debut in the corresponding event 12 months ago before going on to take out the Slipper three starts later, a statistic not lost on Plymstock’s jockey Tim Clark.

“This is the race Stay Inside won last year and (2018 Slipper winner) Estijaab a few years before that, so it has obviously produced some good two-year-olds and she couldn’t have been more impressive there,” Clark said.

“It was a good start to her career.

“She settled back off them, travelled well throughout. She had a bit of work to do once we straightened up, but she quickened up nicely and went through her gears well, especially when the horse on my outside (Emperor) came to her.”

The winner is by freshman sire Ribchester, who first shuttled to Haunui Farm in 2020, and is a half-sister to Godolphin’s two-time Group One victor Trekking (Street Cry).

Ribchester will be represented at the upcoming New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale by Lot 306 in Wentwood Grange’s draft, a colt out of Listed winner Hy Fuji, the dam of dual Group One winner and now stallion at stud Kermadec.