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EXPLOSIVE VICTORY!

Winning the same race the stable won 15 years ago with Tootsie, Coeur Volante did a great job recording the fourth win of her nine start career.

It was a second 1400m Group success at the track for the daughter of Proisir who also won the Gr.2 1000 Guineas Prelude last spring - as well as the Gr.3 Champagne Stakes at Moonee Valley the previous spring.

"I am rapt to see her back to her best," said a delighted Blake Shinn who has been aboard Coeur Volante for all of her impressive stakes victories.

"She is a very good horse and we thought last winter she was a Tattersall's Tiara type but she just didn't handle things and full credit to the stable and the owners in deciding not to contest that race."

Whilst Coeur Volante did not win in Queensland the trip did do her the world of good and the talented mare who used to find it hard to hold on to her condition is now a more mature package.

"She was given the time she needed," Blake said, "and we have been rewarded by a lovely win today."

Always travelling nicely, Coeur Volante had the leader in her sights and was able to quickly put away her rivals showing an outstanding turn of foot.

"Last start I felt that she just got that bit far back and was off the bridle early, I think the blinkers on today really helped," Blake said - "she felt like a more confident horse."

"The blinkers really did make a difference," Glen Thompson agreed.

"That trip away really bought her on," he said, adding that he is looking forward to "sitting down and working out a plan" for the remainder of Coeur Volante's campaign.

Bred by Fairdale Stud, Coeur Volante is one of the 21 stakes winners sired by Rich Hill Stud's classy Choisir horse Proisir.

A NZ$90,000 purchase for Paul Moroney Bloodstock and Ballymore Stables at the 2022 Karaka Yearling Sale, she is out of the five time winning Testa Rossa mare Shanina whose grandam is the very smart Rose O'War who at this same meeting 26 years ago won the Gr.3 Angus Armanasco Stakes.

Rose O' War's dam Savana City was a terrific filly too, winning eight races including the Gr.1 AJC Oaks and she produced another three stakes winners including the Hong Kong based multiple Gr.1 winning sprinter Mr Vitality who at this meeting 29 years ago ran second to Hurricane Sky in the Gr.1 Blue Diamond Stakes.


[22 Feb 25]

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