A tick under two hours after stablemate The Black Cloud recorded her first black type victory in Queensland, trainer Joe Pride saddled up fellow 5yo mare Weeping Woman in the $200,000 Listed ATC Razor Sharp (1200m) at Randwick where the daughter of Lonhro impressed as the race favourite.
Putting together a solid record, recording three wins since a spell (and seven overall), the Zac Lloyd ridden mare started favourite in the ten-horse field with her stablemate Coal Crusher also well in the market off the back of his last start win in the $1m Group 2 The Hunter (1300m) at Newcastle.
As a noted leader, Coal Crusher went forward under Adam Hyeronimus, with Lloyd ensuring he didn’t get things all his own way in the lead, settling Weeping Woman in third, just behind the leading pair.
With the field rounded the home turn, Lloyd got off the rails and followed the slipstream of Coal Crusher and once the 300m mark was reached, Weeping Woman came to the inside to mount her challenge.
Although the eventual third placed Brave One was making up considerable ground down the outside, Weeping Woman accelerated like a good horse, putting a half length on Coal Crusher in the run to the line to record her first black type victory – at her first black type start.
“It's been a good day,” Pride said.
“It would have been better if Private Eye won the Supernova but second is better than third.
“It's great for the two mares, Weeping Woman and The Black Cloud, and their owners. Those wins make those mares.
“And old Coal Crusher ran great again. He won his race in The Hunter anyway so he's done his job."
Riding Weeping Woman for just the first time, Lloyd was suitably impressed.
“She is a push-button horse to ride,” Lloyd said. “She puts herself on speed, she travelled lovely for me.
“It was my first sit on her, and I couldn't be more impressed with her. She tried very hard, and she didn't beat a slouchy field today.
“To be beating horses like Coal Crusher, a proper Group 1 weight-for-age horse, it's a real feather in her cap."
As for where she goes now, Pride feels he may give her one more run.
“I might give her another one in the Canterbury Classic on New Year's Day,” he said.
“Either that or maybe a little freshen up.”
With seven wins and five placings from 16 starts and $444,450 in earnings, the Razor Sharp victory will add a very nice pedigree update to her Pinatubo (IRE) half-sister who will sell through Widden Stud’s Inglis Premier draft as Lot 571.
Bred by Mr Ian Cornell, Weeping Woman was foaled and raised at Widden Stud and is the fourth winner and first stakes winner out of the Street Cry mare Cries And Whiskers, a half-sister to the Listed winners Global Warming and Pure Purrfection (dam of Listed winners Barbie’s Sister and Outback Barbie).
Cries And Whiskers is also the dam of the six-time winner, Listed placed Magnatear, while there has been no further mare return after foaling her Pinatubo filly last year.
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