At Morphettville’s Super Sunday race meeting over the weekend, Mick Price’s Victorian runner Velocitea claimed an upset victory in the $300,000 Group 1 Distinctive Homes Goodwood (1200m).
Four-year-old mare Velocitea ($7) hugged the rails all the way, eventually snaring victory by a long neck from the local hero and hot favourite, the Mark Kavanagh-trained Catapulted ($2.60) who had set the pace leading for all but the last 60m.
Lightly-raced but consistent mare Very Discreet ($13) finished off the trifecta for third.
Velocitea, a winner of seven of her 18 starts for over $550,000 in prizemoney, will now head to the feature races at the Brisbane Winter Carnival as will Catapulted.
To read more about Velocitea’s maiden Group 1 win in the 2010 Goodwood follow the links to Races.com.au or Morphettville Races, where you will also find information on the other big feature race on Sunday, the $300,000 Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m), which was won by the favourite Kidnapped.
Results of the Distinctive Homes Goodwood 2010:
Place |
Horse |
Trainer |
Rider |
| 1 |
VELOCITEA (NZ) |
Mick Price | Craig Newitt |
| 2 |
CATAPULTED |
Mark Kavanagh | Simon Price |
| 3 |
VERY DISCREET |
Richard Jolly | Dwayne Dunn |
| 4 |
BELTROIS |
Robbie Griffiths | Luke Currie |
| 5 |
HUXSSEN |
Rodney Douglas | James Wins |
| 6 |
ORBIT EXPRESS |
Steve McKinnon | Steven Arnold |
| 7 |
ROSTOVA |
Steve Richards | Steven King |
| 8 |
PERTURBO |
C&C Alderson | Ben Melham |
| 9 |
MAGICAL PEARL |
Dennis O’Leary | Dom Tourneur |
| 10 |
MOTSPUR |
Kris Lees | Michael Rodd |
| 11 |
LIKABLE WILL |
Darren Kolpin | Adrian Patterson |
| 12 |
CAPTAIN COLTISH |
Peter G Moody | Luke Nolen |
| 13 |
MAXISUN |
Tony Vasil | Mark Zahra |
| 14 |
FALAISE |
Peter Snowden | Kerrin McEvoy |
| 15 |
DIAMONDS AT DUSK |
Bill Cerchi | Nicholas Hall |
| 16 |
GRAND DUELS |
Byron Cozamanis | Mark Pegus |
| 17 |
BLAHNIK |
John Hyam | Jason Holder |
