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Picture: AAP ImageĬhase My Crown, a granddaughter of Sweet Embrace winner Shadowy Outline, last raced in a Highway on November 6 and sent for a break to gather strength for her much more important February 20 Heat at Taree. Trainer Wayne Wilkes is looking to claim a fourth Queen of the North win with Chase My Crown at Port Macquarie on Friday. “She was probably not quite ready and it was a bit of a rushed preparation getting her there and it was a last-minute decision whereas this time, it’s been more planned and more strategic,” Wilkes said. Shotgun Roulette finished ninth while her younger sibling was runner-up to Noble Boy in 2019.Ĭhase My Crown went within a head of making it Royal Randwick for the 2021 Final, finishing third in the MNC Qualifier run at Scone while having just her fifth career outing. Wilkes, who trains in partnership with son Joel, is shooting for his fourth Queen Of The North trophy having won it with full-sisters Shotgun Roulette and Lucciola Belle and again with Bellastar.Īll three of those mares finished on the podium in their respective MNC Championship Qualifier with both Shotgun Roulette and Lucciola Belle progressing through to the Final. Wayne Wilkes is ready and able to cement his reputation as the King of the Queen Of The North when his 2022 Country Championships top seed, Chase My Crown, steps out in the annual Port Macquarie feature. WILKES’ MARE READY TO CLAIM THE QUEEN OF THE NORTH CROWN “I think she’s got a bit of quality,” he said. Quinton wasn’t exactly thrilled with the dual inconveniences of a big weight and a wet track but has more than enough faith in his homegrown commodity “She could have almost gone to the Magic Millions sale but I have decided to keep her.” “I’ve got a yearling out of her by Sidestep and I am going to retain her because she is a lovely filly. “And it seems to have worked because I got two foals in a row out of her and she’s in foal again. “I sent her to Queensland because I thought maybe the warmer climate up there might suit her better,” Quinton explained. Happily for all, a change of scenery has led to a change in fortunes for Quinton and Skein. Skein failed to produce a foal in her first two seasons at stud only to have her Dundeel filly die soon after it arrived in her third.
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Those issues, sadly, followed Skein into retirement, at least for the first few years of her new life. “She had a lot of ability but she had her issues.” After that she ran third to two colts and then that was it. “She ran fifth at Randwick, then she won at Canterbury.
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“Skein only had three starts,” Quinton recalled.
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Smart Little Miss has been loaded up with the topweight in the ATC Buy Better At Inglis Handicap (1250m) with Sam Clipperton in the saddle.Ĭlipperton, one of Quinton’s four (former) Champion Sydney Apprentices, rode Skein throughout her all too brief career. “She had a few little issues that were all maturity wise than anything else so we gave her time.” “She just as easily could have won as got beat when she ran second there at Canterbury back in late May. I’ve got a percentage of this filly myself and she’s shown me good ability,” Quinton said. “David Lamond and I bred her out of a mare called Skein who was a Dubawi mare that I raced. Quinton only has one mare in his harem these days and it is Skein, the mother of the Canterbury bound Smart Little Miss. Picture: Getty ImagesĪs well as winning the VATC Thousand Guineas and STC Queen Of The Turf, Mnemosyne went on to become one of the blue hens of the Australia Studbook thanks to her foals, Impending, Forget and Epidemic while another of her daughters produced Lyre. Sam Clipperton will partner Smart Little Miss at Canterbury on Friday night. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Hall of Famer Ron Quinton has a vested interest in a Smart Little Miss win on Friday night beyond being the filly’s trainer and number one fan.Īn eight-time Sydney Premiership winning jockey and multiple Group 1 trainer, Quinton also dabbles in the breeding side of the business with at least one great success.Įmancipation’s jockey bred one of the modern-day star fillies of Australian racing, namely Mnemosyne, whom he sold to Jack and Bob Ingham for $400,000 at the Easter Yearling Sale at Newmarket in 2004.