The Overshare filly Storyville came from last on the turn under a rails-hugging ride by Willie Pike to capture Saturday’s Group III Tabtouch - WA Champion Fillies Stakes (1600m) at Ascot.
Storyville a Willie Pike special (image Western Racepix)
A seventh win in the race for trainers Grant and Alana Williams and a sixth for Pike, Storyville only went around one horse, the tiring Diamond Dancer, to defeat the Written Tycoon filly Ron's Finalflutter by one and a three-quarter lengths with the Bull Point filly Flower Of Gold a length back in third.
The win starkly contrasted Storyville’s previous start when she went to the line untested in the Listed Burgess Queen Stakes.
With her stakes breakthrough, the daughter of Overshare advances her record to three wins and a third from six starts with earnings of $224,350.
“It’s good when he’s (Pike) is in this sort of form, Grant Williams said.
“We’ve had a rap on this horse from day dot.
“We were probably riding her a little too confidently for her first few runs.
They are only three once, she is in good nick, so if she pulls up well, you have to have a go in (next weeks) Guieas.”
Lots to look forward to (image Western Racepix)
A half-sister to stakes-placed winners Crescent City (Fiorente) and Axeman's Jazz (Dundeel), Storyville was bred by her trainers. She is the fourth winner from five to race for the unraced Time Thief mare New Orleans, a half-sister to seven-time stakes winner Battle Hero (Stratum).
New Orleans has a yearling sister to Storyville and foaled a Toronado (IRE) filly on August 20.
Storyville is the second stakes-winner, after Group 1 heroine Lady Laguna, for Widden Stud’s I Am Invincible stallion Overshare.
