Platinum Dubai wins eventful 2YO race

The Lisa Latta-trained filly showed professionalism to take out the Otaki Mail (800m) for two-year-olds on Thursday, leading throughout to land the prize while race-favourite Piaggio was slow into stride and bucked off rider shortly after.

A daughter of Of Dubai, the filly is eligible and that will be a long-range target, having been sold through the draft of Ardsley Stud for $100,000 at the Book 1 Yearling Sale. “She is a natural two-year-old. She’s a precocious little filly,” Latta said. “We will just give her a week in the paddock and then all going well she will go to the (Listed, 1000m).

“We were looking for an early type of filly and Neville McAlister, who owns half of her with Lincoln Farms, really liked her pedigree and then we liked her on type as well. “She has got a very good brain and that bit of toughness that is good to see in a filly.”

Meanwhile, Latta reports that will skip the (2040m) in preference to easier options later in spring following her disappointing fifth placing at Hawke’s Bay last weekend when beaten 3.5 lengths by Peso.

“She didn’t come up at this time of the year last year. It wasn’t until late October that she came up,” she said. “We will probably take a backward step and look at the (Group 3, 1600m) at Trentham in late October on a track where we are going to get the fire out of the ground.”

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