Moonbi trainer Dean Chapple will look to take Beautiful Stranger to the Narrabri Easter Monday harness meeting after the filly broke through for an impressive win at Armidale last Friday.
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At the three-year old’s eighth race start, Beautiful Stranger made a three-wide run around the final turn to go on and conquer the field down the home straight for a 2.8m win over Million Dollar Mac (Michael Grima). Cronin (Mitch Faulkner) was a metre away third.
“It has been a big week for her,” Chapple said.
“She went really good at Maitland on Monday and she backed up again at Armidale.”
Beautiful Stranger came into the 1980m event at Armidale after finishing second to Que Sera from the Clayton Harmey stables at the Maitland meeting.
While Cronin led the field at Armidale, Chapple was biding his time towards the rear of the field.
“We drove her with a cold sit and the way the race panned out I was pretty confident a long way out,” he said.
“It is a bit hard to make ground on this track but to her credit she made up the ground and got to the line well.”
Beautiful Stranger has only had four race starts for the Chapple stables and is raced by Sam Judge.
“She has come to me to win a race or two,” Chapple said.
“She has only missed one cheque and I really like the filly.”
“We will wait to see what the future brings - she has only had a handful of starts and races very well. The connections in Sydney are happy to be patient with her.”
