The South Australians hit the board on Oaks Day at Flemington when Richard and Chantelle Jolly’s Headwater filly Aitch Two Oh won the Group III News First Red Roses Stakes (1100m) for three-year-old fillies.
A third winner on the day for James McDonald, Aitch Two Oh defeated the Manhattan Rain filly La Danseuse Rouge by a long head with the Deep Field filly Bay Thirteen a neck back in third.
Previously the winner of the Listed Without Fear Stakes at Morphettville, Aitch Two Oh advances her record to four wins a second and a third from seven starts with earnings of $369,650.
“Unfortunately for Jake (Toeroek) his plane got cancelled, the next one got delayed and he couldn’t get here,” Richard jolly revealed.
“It’s bad luck for Jake, but he’s done a lot of work on the filly and he’ll be happy.
Jolly said the daughter of Headwater had excuses when unplaced for the first time at her most recent stat at Morphettville.
“She drew a wide gate, (it was a) wet track - I don’t think she likes the wet - and we put the blinkers on here today. She’s been a bit field shy, and it turned her around.”
Bred by Gerry Harvey, Aitch Two Oh was a $65,000 purchase by her trainers from the Baramul Stud draft at the 2021 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale.
She is the lone winner from two to race out of the Swiss Ace mare Very Dogmatic, a sister to the Group III BRC Vo Rogue Plate winner Mywayorthehighway.
Kavanagh Racing bought a Press Statement half-brother to Aitch Two Oh for $85,000 from the Baramul draft at the 2022 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale.
Very Dogmatic has a yearling filly by All Too Hard and was covered by him again last spring.
Headwater stands at Vinery Stud at a fee of $16,500..
