In just her second start for Orange’s Michael Plummer four-year-old mare Will She Appeal secured her first career win at Towac Park last weekend, beating out a host of far more-fancied rivals to claim the $20,000 Steeline Maiden Handicap (1000 metres).
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After running third at Narromine in her debut with Plummer’s stable earlier this month, Will She Appeal ($6) absolutely blitzed a field including David Pfieffer’s Carbon Cache ($3.80), Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones’ Just A Spat ($3.60) and Paul Theobald’s Red Marauder ($3.40 favourite).
“I’m very happy with that, we bought her for about $1600 five or so weeks ago,” Plummer said.
“She’d been improving into that race so I did think she’d run really well [on Saturday] and even though it probably wasn’t the strongest of fields it was a really good run.
“We’ll look to give her another run in two or three weeks and see how she goes. She got a bit tired at the end there but once we get a bit more work into her it’ll be good to see how she goes over a bit more I think.”
After an impeccable start from barrier seven and a short battle with Paul Theobald’s Red Marauder, Will She Appeal assumed the lead and never gave it up.
In fact, she never looked like losing.
With apprentice Katie Jenkinson in the saddle, Will She Appeal was half-a-length in front at the halfway point and pushed that out to three by the 200 mark after kicking into the turn.
Carbon Cache did eat in the buffer in the final 100 and cut it to one length by the finish but Jenkinson had taken her foot off the gas by then, and that margin was in no way reflective of how dominant Plummer’s mare was throughout.
Will She Appeal’s win was one of two Jenkinson piloted on Saturday too, she also rode Brian Gentle’s Dark Force ($12) to victory in the seventh, the Kitchens and Cabinets Maiden Handicap (1600m).
Matt Findlay
Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.
Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.
