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YEAR: 2013
FEATURE RACE COMMENT
2013 PGG WRIGHTSON NZ YEARLING SALES 3YO FILLIES PACE
Delightful Christian was back to her brilliant best at Addington last Friday night.
With her gate speed, and from a draw to use it, Delightful Christian flew from the pole and was clear after 200 metres. Onlyforyou wasn't a threat from the trail, as she could have been, and it was left to a brave Rozelski to head home the others in the $175,000 PGG Wrightson NZ Yearling Sales Series 3YO Fillies Championship.
Delightful Christian was the only drive of the night for Maurice McKendry. "She's got gate speed, which helped her, and she came back to me when I wanted her to. She was more on her game tonight than what she's been," he said.
The daughter of Christian Cullen is trained by John Green and 'Bunty' Hughes, and Hughes said her mixed form at the end of last year had been because she was a victim of bad draws. "We flew down, but she's on the road home, so we'll see what she's like when she gets back, but there's a Nevele R heat in a fortnight for her," he said.
As good as she is, and with stakes of more than $200,000 from seven wins and 16 starts, Delightful Christian has not yet reached the high plateau Hughes placed Imam at the same age. "She was an outstanding filly. She won two Oaks and six out of eight, and with two bowed tendons. We never saw the best of her," he said.
Credit: Nike Grainger writing in HRWeekly 6Feb13