Pariah's Slippin' Jimmy Wins MM Country Cup

Breednet - Saturday January 11

Slippin’ Jimmy took his meteoric rise through the ranks to the big stage of the Magic Millions Raceday at the Gold Coast on Saturday, where he showed his rivals a clean set of heels to win the $500,000 Gold Coast Turf Club Magic Millions Country Cup (1200m).

Slippin' Jimmy wins the Magic Millions Country Cup. Image: Magic Millions

David Vandyke’s four-year-old advanced his record to six wins from 10 career starts with the all-the-way victory and has now netted his connections almost $400,000 in prizemoney.

Vandyke teamed up with Mark Cook and RM Racing when he paid $180,000 for the son of Pariah out of the Kenmore Lodge draft at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

He said the plan to tackle the lucrative race with Slippin’ Jimmy was more than six months in the making.

“He’s always had ability and he’s a good trier,” Vandyke said.

“Mark Cook and myself planned this quite a while ago, we were aiming for this and we got here.

“We were a bit worried about the rain but he loved it.

“There are a great group of people in him and it’s such a buzz to win a race like that.”

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The win continued jockey Tim Clark’s love affair with the iconic Magic Millions meeting, where he has now ridden nine feature race winners, including the 3YO Guineas on Boomsara in 2019.

He said Slippin’ Jimmy’s ability to settle, control the race in the middle stages and quicken on the rain-affected ground were the hallmarks of the win.

Joe Cleary’s King Gutho ran second and Allan Chau’s Flying Birds ran third, with both horses finishing within a length of the winner.

“David prepared him brilliantly and he’d obviously trialed up nicely against a very good three-year-old,” Clark said.

“He makes his own luck and I just wanted to hold onto him as deep as I could given he was first-up over the 1200m.

“He kicked strongly and it was a tough effort.”

Slippin’ Jimmy’s win continues an excellent season for Queensland’s Oaklands Stud based Pariah, who’s had 40 winners including stakes winners Lady In Pink and Ostraka so far.

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Race Result - Gold Coast Turf Club Magic Millions Country Cup 1200m

Gold Coast Track: Heavy(9) Time: 1:10.35
1
Slippin' Jimmy
- 4g Pariah (AUS) x Top Of The Rock (AUS) (Easy Rocking (AUS))
Tnr: David Vandyke Rdr: Tim Clark 57.5
2
0.8
King Gutho
- 6g Better Than Ready (AUS) x Magic Model (AUS) (Choisir (AUS))
Tnr: J M Cleary Rdr: Tommy Berry 57.5
3
0.9
Flying Birds
- 5g Flying Artie (AUS) x She's A Wildcat (AUS) (Fastnet Rock (AUS))
Tnr: Allan Chau Rdr: S Cormack 54
MM Gold Coast National Yearling Sale $11,000
Seller: Widden Stud, Widden Valley, NSW (As Agent)
Buyer: Hun Sio Cheong/Macau Jockey Club
4
2.2
Bencoolen
- 5g Written Tycoon (AUS) x Stockton Abbey (AUS) (Stratum (AUS))
Tnr: J T Wigginton Rdr: R Dolan 54
5
3.2
Quade
- 4g Sidestep (AUS) x Invictum Domina (AUS) (I Am Invincible (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: B Shinn 57.5
6
4.2
Northern Pride
- 5g Better Than Ready (AUS) x Hello Sweetpea (AUS) (Shamus Award (AUS))
Tnr: Darren Bell Rdr: Ms N Beriman 59.5
7
4.4
Constant Flight
- 10g Written Tycoon (AUS) x Littlemiss Sandown (AUS) (Encosta De Lago (AUS))
Tnr: L J Gough Rdr: V Duric 60
8
4.6
Great Aspirations
- 5g Savabeel (AUS) x Eau De Parfum (AUS) (Redoute's Choice (AUS))
Tnr: T J Gollan Rdr: K Mc Evoy 53.5
9
5.1
Clover's Prince
- 5g Better Than Ready (AUS) x Vienna Queen (AUS) (Jet Spur (AUS))
Tnr: Toby Edmonds & Stephen McLean Rdr: Kyle Wilson-Taylor 54
10
5.6
Miss Ostend
- 6m Zoustar (AUS) x Ningbo (AUS) (Star Witness (AUS))
Tnr: N F Gardner Rdr: Tyler Schiller 54.5
11
5.8
Mr Rock It
- 5g All Too Hard (AUS) x Tiarazou (AUS) (Zizou (AUS))
Tnr: R & L Price Rdr: J R Collett 55
12
6
Lady Shotgun
- 4m Star Turn (AUS) x Sawn Off Shotgun (AUS) (More Than Ready (USA))
Tnr: Angela Plumb Rdr: Matthew Palmer 56.5
13
7.3
Lost His Beans
- 4g Spill The Beans (AUS) x Dream Free (AUS) (Dream Ahead (USA))
Tnr: David Vandyke Rdr: Craig Williams 58.5
14
7.4
The Catch
- 7g Medaglia D'oro (USA) x Curtana (AUS) (Exceed And Excel (AUS))
Tnr: Jeff Dunn Rdr: Cejay Graham 55
15
8.4
Hodgson
- 6g Hinchinbrook (AUS) x Waterspell (AUS) (Magic Albert (AUS))
Tnr: Felicia Bergstrand Rdr: J L Taylor 56.5
16
9.9
I Am Voodoo
- 5g Hellbent (AUS) x Tibrogargan Miss (AUS) (Monashee Mountain (USA))
Tnr: R H Dart Rdr: D W Stackhouse 58.5
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