Race Result:

1st: Huetor (P&P Snowden/N Rawiller) - $15
2nd: Goldman (G Waterhouse & A Bott/R Bayliss) - $5.50
3rd: Hezashocka (M Price & M Kent Jnr/R King) - $9

Winning Time: 2:07.36 Last 600m: 37.38

Margins: 2¼L x 1¾L

Huetor with the inside run takes out the G3 JRA Plate, and it's a double for @nashhot!@aus_turf_club @SnowdenRacing1 @PGsnowden pic.twitter.com/mmHCY8bnm9

— SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) April 20, 2024

 

Winning Trainer: Peter and Paul Snowden (Paul speaking)

On the win: "We're starting to get there. Honestly, there was plenty of excuses in his first-up run. He got caught behind a horse that was going nowhere. He got dragged back through the ruck and he's a horse once you start to let him come up underneath you, you've got to really go with him and just keep pointing him in the right direction."

"You can't stop and start him. Believe it or not, I reckon he's won about four or five races just cutting the corner and coming up the fence like that."

"I believe he's going better than what his last run suggests. It is a little shock, because he has struggled on these heavy conditions before. But obviously we're heading up to the Hollindale and the Doomben Cup and he's going up there in really good form."

On Huetor's previous eye injury: "Look, Lauren who looks after this horse, she lived with him day and night. We actually took him out of the hospital and we cared for him ourselves, and there's no better than being at home and trying to get them a little bit better and a little more comfortable. It's all testament to her and what she did for him to get him back as good as what he has. And it's a good result for everyone. "

Winning Jockey: Nash Rawiller

On sticking to the inside on Huetor: "I think the fence has been pretty good all day."

On how the race panned out: "He drew one, I let him find his feet. He's probably not rock-hard fit yet but he was able to conserve his energy in the run. Like I said to connections before the race, 'if we get to the half-mile and we're going alright, we'll know we're a chance' because the ground might have found him out by then."

"You could see there that he was travelling and he's got a terrific turn of foot, we know that. You don't win Doomben Cups if you don't have that sort of ability."

Beaten Jockeys:

Tom Sherry (Unspoken): "He was a little better today. Still sort of failed to show a change up of speed that last two furlongs."

Tim Clark (Bold Mac): "He travelled well but the real heavy ground just dulled his acceleration."

Ryan Maloney (Bois D'argent): "Very testing ground. I thought he'd get through it a bit better than he did but I was happy enough with his run."

Chad Schofield (Navajo Peak): "Below par run. I think his prep has come to an end."

James McDonald (New Energy): "He is a nice horse. Don't drop off him. He's just too aggressive for 2000m."

Regan Bayliss (Goldman): "So great to have him back in his top form. He's in a for a great Brisbane Winter campaign."

Zac Lloyd (Renaissance Woman): "Felt the winner on the bend. Just failed to show a normal turn of foot on that ground."

Tommy Berry (Yonce): "She travelled like the winner. Just struggled off the bridle in the wet."

Sam Clipperton (Normandy Bridge): "He had a tough run at that told at the end."

Dylan Gibbons (Almania): "Once he hit that half mile patch which really deteriorated he lost his way."

Rachel King (Hezashocka): "He has run super. He just bounded in the air out of the gates which put us on the back foot.'