Marc Lerner did not have to pretend he needed an oxygen mask when he dismounted from Raising Sixty-One at the winner’s box on Saturday. Trainer Tim Fitzsimmons had not tied the French jockey down to any specific instructions, but he did have these parting words when he...
Even when Raising Sixty-One was outpaced early – ahead of the even more sluggish Luck Of Master – Lerner was seen earning every cent of his riding fees to stay in touch.
All the hard graft eventually paid off as Raising Sixty-One kept batting away to score with 2¼ lengths to spare from Fortune Wheel , with whom he shared joint $15 favouritism. The winning time was 1min 45.95sec for the Polytrack 1,700m. Even if Lerner was at his first spin on the AJ’s Stable’s ward, he had little doubt he would stay all day.“They went quite fast early. But when he started to travel from the 1,000m, I knew he would win.The first winner was Fireworks , bringing up a first winning combo for the pair since Miracle on Oct 29, incidentally their one and only at Fitzsimmons’ premiership-winning season when Nunes hogged most of the rides.
The Rio de Janeiro-based 22-year-old’s command of English may not be up to scratch, but it did not seem to deter Fitzsimmons.
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