It's Kah Again as Ancient Girl Opens Stakes Account

Mark Smith - Monday March 14

Jamie Kah won four of the five features at Morphettville as Ancient Girl made it a 5-timer for the champion jockey in the Listed Morphettville Guineas (1600m).

Ancient Girl (image NZ Racing News)

Ridden along to take up the running, the Clinton McDonald-trained daughter of Turn Me Loose kept up a relentless gallop to defeat the Foxwedge gelding Harleymoven by two and a half lengths with a further one and a quarter length back to the More Than Ready (USA) colt Set The Sails in third.

Coming off a third in the Group III The Vanity at Flemington, won by Barb Raider, Ancient Girl advanced her record to three wins and a third from six starts with earnings of $125,950.

“It’s great for (part) owners Todd Hartley and Doug Pante, who own share in Turn Me Loose,”  McDonald said.

“So it is important to them as the stallion is doing an amazing job. He had a Group 1 winner yesterday (Lickety Split) and a Listed winner today.

“Jamie rode this horse in trackwork on Tuesday, and she worked sensationally.

“This is Jamie’s day. Five winners and an Adelaide Cup. What can you say? I don’t think it has ever been done before.

“We were looking at the Kewney on Saturday, but I said to the boys she would run well for third or fourth while we can come here and win a Listed race.

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“We will have alook where we go. We have the option of the Oaks, but I think she will be better as a 4yo.

Ancient Girl a $150,000 Inglis Premier Yearling

“We won’t go to the well too many times and let her tell us.”

McDonald Racing paid $150,000 for the daughter of Turn Me Loose from the Windsor Park Stud consignment at the 2020 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.

She is the best of four winners from as many to race out of the Elusive City mare Herculaneum, a half-sister to Group 1 Brisbane Cup winner Art Success (Pentire).

It has been a sensational weekend for Windsor Park Stud’s Group 1 VRC Emirates Stakes and Group 1 MRC Futurity Stakes winner Turn Me Loose.

The son of Iffraaj sired the Group 1 Sistema Stakes winner Lickety Split at Ellerslie on Sunday.

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Race Result - Morphettville Guineas LR 1600m

Morphettville Track: Good(4) Time: 1:37.72
1
Ancient Girl
- 3f Turn Me Loose (NZ) x Herculaneum (NZ) (Elusive City (USA))
Tnr: C W McDonald Rdr: Jamie Kah 55.5
2
2.5
Harleymoven
- 3g Foxwedge (AUS) x Inishmore (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: D Clarken & O Macgillivray Rdr: R J Hurdle 57.5
Foxwedge
3
3.8
Set The Sails
- 3c More Than Ready (USA) x Jolie Brise (AUS) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: M Price & M Kent Jnr Rdr: B Melham 57.5
More Than Ready
4
6.1
Max Fire
- 3g Star Turn (AUS) x Witwatersrand (IRE) (Unfuwain (USA))
Tnr: Travis Doudle Rdr: P Gatt 57.5
5
6.4
Residue
- 3g Shooting To Win (AUS) x Amalgamate (AUS) (Zenno Rob Roy (JPN))
Tnr: R W Huxtable Rdr: Jessica Eaton 57.5
6
7.9
Alpine Beau
- 3g Alpine Eagle (AUS) x Liffeybel (AUS) (Bel Esprit (AUS))
Tnr: J Hickmott & C Riggs Rdr: J Maund 57.5
7
8.0
Benz Baron
- 3g Written Tycoon (AUS) x Prostar (AUS) (Starcraft (NZ))
Tnr: Grant Young Rdr: Ms E Finnegan 57.5
8
9.7
Water Into Wine
- 3g Sir Prancealot (IRE) x God's Child (AUS) (God's Own (AUS))
Tnr: T & C McEvoy Rdr: B Vorster 57.5
9
10.7
Coyote
- 3g Tivaci (AUS) x Salford Art (IRE) (Sir Percy (GB))
Tnr: Michael Hickmott Rdr: Todd Pannell 57.5
10
11.6
Tupoleu
- 3g Air Force Blue (USA) x Eight Eighty Eight (USA) (Maria's Mon (USA))
Tnr: S P Gower Rdr: O Ridge 57.5
11
12.5
Charm Slinga
- 3g Per Incanto (USA) x Shana Singa (NZ) (Danasinga (AUS))
Tnr: John Hyam Rdr: Will Price 57.5
12
16.5
Strike Eagle
- 3g More Than Ready (USA) x Assertive Eagle (AUS) (Danewin (AUS))
Tnr: T & C McEvoy Rdr: John Allen 57.5
13
18.2
Bamyan Buddha
- 3c Rich Enuff (AUS) x Carnivale (AUS) (Carnegie (IRE))
Tnr: Grant Young Rdr: D Tourneur 57.5
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