A look at some of the races on the Orr Stakes undercard
Silver's fitness the edge in Autumn Stakes
Glint Of Silver made the most of a fitness edge he had on most his rivals to pick up a Group 2 win in the $300,000 Autumn Stakes at Sandown on Saturday.
Trainer David Pfeiffer said he deliberately headed to the 1400-metre event with the son of Rubick, who was having his fourth start for the preparation, after he noted so many runners were first-up and cashed in with a bold on-pace plan.
"We had him entered in quite a few places and saw that these noms were going to be a bit light on," the Warwick Farm trainer said.
"We got to acceptance time and there was quite a few there first-up so we were deep into our preparation and we had good fitness first-up and it was pretty much how the instructions followed through."
Glint Of Silver ($11), who registered the second win of his 12-start career, defeated Amenable ($9) by a long neck with The Fortune Teller ($5.50) a neck back third. Pericles, the $3.70 favourite, was close up in fourth position.
Further merit was added to Glint Of Silver's win after the event when vets noted that the grey gelding was displaying lameness in the off foreleg.
Family celebrates Rich success
Pre-race interviewers take note, there is one important question for Jerome Hunter next time they get him before one of his team go around in a feature race; "is the family on track?".
Minutes after Rich Fortune made it back-to-back wins to start the preparation, Hunter was interviewed by Racing.com with his wife and children alongside and said there was a good reason they were on track.
"They've all come out because they knew we were going to go pretty close today," the Mornington trainer said.
Rich Fortune, a daughter of Rich Enuff, started $12 and overcame being held up for much of the first half of the straight to unleash a powerful late burst and run down Queen Of The Ball ($5.50), having a half-head to spare on the line.
Pounding keeps on keeping on
Peter Moody was happy to be proven a 'mug' by Pounding, who registered the first Black Type win of his career in the $200,000 Group 3 Carlyon Cup.
The 1600m event was the 10th run on of a campaign that started on July 23 for the son of Exceed And Excel and Moody was happy to see his trainer's pre-race concerns.
"He's just really in the zone," Moody said.
"I thought I saw a few tell-tale signs that he might have been coming towards the end of his prep – ears back and a little bit cantankerous, which isn't usually him – but he's made a mug out of me, thankfully."
Pounding stretched his record to seven wins – six of which have come on Good tracks – from 21 starts with the win and Moody said with the lure of the $5 million All-Star Mile at The Valley, where is a two-time winner, meant he wouldn't be turned out just yet.
"The All-Star Mile, is that being run on a dry track this year?" Moody mused.
"He's in the noms. Punters, he might be one to vote for, hey?"
