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stakes-winner at the Gold Coast last December, smart three year-old Collate filly
Sold for Song repeated the effort when taking out the Listed Tatts Daybreak
Lover stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Trained at Toowoomba by Kevin Kemp, Sold for Song powered home to score a neck
win in the 1400 metre contest.
Winning rider James
Orman made the most of a wide barrier to bring her down the
preferred outside fence,
however several hundred metres after the post Sold For
Song dumped himand took off.
"Sold For Song saw Bernie (interviewer Bernadette Cooper) coming on her
horse for the after-race talk and did a sharp turn and dislodged me,"
Orman said.
"I am OK and luckily the clerk of course quickly caught her."
Trainer Kevin Kemp said Sold For Song could now back up in the Sunshine Coast
Guineas next Saturday and was a definite interstate campaigner in the spring
carnivals.
"We will nominate for Caloundra and she will let us know about Friday if
she is ready to race again. If not she can have a break and come back for the
spring," Kemp said.
"I haven't decided exactly which races she will tackle in the south.
"She has raced well at 1600 metres but that was against three-year-olds
and I don't know if we might keep her to shorter trips."
Sold For Song was
bought for just $2,500 at the Magic Millions Yeearling Sale from the Burwood
Stud draft by owner Ian Price and has won three races and placed four times
from eight starts earning over $311,000 in prizemoney.
"It has been a wonderful trip with her and
I just hope it continues," Kemp said.
Sold for Song is one of two winners from only two foals from ill-fated Buena
Chava, a minor winning half-sister by O'Reilly to Group III winner El Chico.
She is one of two stakes-winners sired by Catbird's stakes-winning son Collate,
who stands in Queensland at an advertised fee of $2,200.