MAYBE The One might be the one.
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At least her trainer Ross Stitt is hoping so after the two-year-old filly ploughed through the heavy conditions to win Tuesday’s $15,000 Grazag/Lynoch P/L Armitage and Buckley 2YO Maiden Handicap (1100m) at Armidale.
The Taree-trained filly led from the jump with Gunnedah gelding I’m Trickee on her outside until she fought him off turning into the short Armidale straight.
A 6-4 favourite, she won by a length and a half from the Gavin Groth-trained I’m Trickee, with Our First One (David Campbell) a length away third.
Maybe The One was having her third start after a debut fourth at Grafton and a last-start third at Port Macquarie.
“She’s out of a half sister to Heavenly Glow,” Stitt said of his former outstanding race mare.
“She’s a dead ringer for her too.”
He said the filly was improving all the time.
“It was a good effort at Port last time,” he said.
“She led and was taken on on a heavy track but only beaten a length.
“She might have one more and we’ll tip her out.
“She might just be the one.
“I might take her to Tassie for the three-year-old fillies’ races next year.”
Stitt likes Armidale and has had plenty of success there.
“The last two-year-old winner I had here was Youthful Jack,” he said of the former topliner who won a Ramornie Handicap as an older horse after some brilliant wins as a three-year-old in Group races.
Stitt could be back in the HNWRA next week too after nominating Single Spirit, a Guyra Cup winner at Armidale, for Monday’s Tamworth Cup Prelude.
Yesterday Single Spirit received topweight for Monday’s Tamworth Cup Prelude, allotted 64kg.
Luke Griffith’s Double Halo (59kg) was next for a race where there were just five gallopers over the 54kg minimum.