Prince Majestic wins Stakes
NZPA. staff correspondent Sydney
Prince .Majestic lived up to his name with a fighting victory in the $50,000 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick yesterday.
The last-stride win over the favourite, Allez Bijou, capped a great autumn Sydney carnival for the Takanini trainer, Ray Verner. In just over two weeks Prince Majestic, a Noble Bijou four-year-old, won the $200,000 H. E. Tancred Stakes, Gold Hope won the $125,000 Doncaster Handicap on Saturday and then Prince Majestic returned again to the winners circle yesterday.
From 27 starts Prince Majestic has now won 112, been placed another eight times and earned $304,486 in stakes, but Verner said racegoers had still to see the best of Prince Majestic.
“Hee Anderton, who bred him. said he would never be
at his peak until he was a five-year-old and I still , believe him,” he said after the race.
“You will see an even better horse next season," he said. Verner trained the double Wellington Cup and Sydney Cup winner, Good Lord, and he said Prince Majestic'would be as good as that horse when he was a five-year-old. Prince Majestic started second favourite in the 2000 m weight-for-age Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
His jockey, Nigel Tiley, had the gelding four wide on the turn, but then fought out a battling finish with New Zealand-bred, Allez Bijou, also by Noble Bijou, and won by just a neck. Prince Majestic’s time of 2min 1.9 s was just two-tenths of a second outside the race record set last year by New Zealand mare My Blue Denim.
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