Tina Fromtransport made all to win a valuable prize in the Juddmonte EBF Restricted Maiden Stakes at Windsor.
Jason Watson immediately found the rail and sent the Dylan Cunha-trained Tina Fromtransport to the head of the field and she had it all her own way until Maybe In Profit came out of the pack to be the first to lay down a challenge.
But the Emma Banks-owned Tina Fromtransport (17-2) found more for Watson to pull clear of the Marco Botti-trained Fire Thunder, who finished strongly down the centre of the course to claim second, a length and a quarter adrift in a race worth over £20,000 to the winner.
Cunha told Sky Sports Racing: “We just need the horses. This is only a five grand horse. If we can do it with them and we get sent the more expensive ones we can do it with them as well.
“Emma Banks is a lovely lady and she supported me straight away when William (Jarvis) stopped training.
“It’s got to be more satisfying for Emma to breed her as well. She’ll go on and we can have a bit of fun with her now the pressure’s off. She’s won a 40 grand race. We can have some ambitious entries and try to get some black type in there and she can breed with her.”
Redorange came home well to reward favourite-backers in the qualifier for the Fitzdares Sprint Series Handicap.
Democracy Dilemma was the first to show and brought them along at a fair clip but his race was run about a furlong and half from home.
Rossa Ryan found a gap on Clive Cox’s 11-8 market leader, who showed a nice turn of foot to take it up and run out a length and three-quarter lengths clear, with last year’s winner Regal Envoy again showing his liking for the Thameside track in second.
Ryan said: “We went a proper gallop. He travelled with ease the whole way through. I think he’s probably coming of age now this lad and figuring it out. He’s starting to put it together the right way around and I could see him having a very good year over five furlongs.”
Cap Santa Lucia stayed on nicely to win the Tattersalls £40,000 EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes.
Brian Meehan’s 16-1 shot held off the challenge of Tahalel to come home a length clear in the hands of Joe Leavy.
Leavy said: “She was a bit lonely out in front. She had to take it up from two out, but I’ve really liked this filly from the start. And like Brian’s horses, she’s stepped forward for a run and she’s done it really well.
“She’s doing well at a mile, she has that speed and she really quickened up into the two, so we’ll have to see what the black-type races are for her.”
