Always B Misty Stunning at Alexandra Park

Always B Misty’s greatest attribute let her down at Alexandra Park on Friday night.

What she did next was amazing.

The juvenile filly recorded one of the best freshman filly performances in a minor race at The Park in years when she overcame breaking in the score up and again soon after dispatch to blow past her mainly-stablemate rivalries in the last 100m.

While the overall time was nothing special and obviously aided her cause in catching the field the Team Telfer trained filly stormed over the top of her rivals wide on the track when the last 800m off the front was in 55.5 seconds.

So yes, after breaking and losing 10-12 lengths early she paced 55 seconds for her last 800m and blew her rivals away.

It was special stuff.

Senior trainer Steve Telfer was, like everybody, stunned by the magnitude of the performance but even more so by her gallop.

“She has a wonderful brain and racing manners and is usually perfect,” explains Telfer.

“But she was wide on the track and shied at something before the start and Josh (Dickie, driver) says that is what caused her to gallop, which was a real surprise.

“But to see her do that after was very, very pleasing.”

While the win was that of a filly going places Telfer says there actually isn’t much between Always B Misty and her runner-up stablemate Always B Magic, who ironically is the one the stable was more worried about having mental frailties.

“They are both good fillies and until tonight Always B Misty was always the advanced one with the really good manners whereas Always B Magic has taken longer to come to it and has been the one we think will get better with racing.”

Telfer says both fillies have had to get up and running early in the second half of the season as things start to get serious quickly.

“They have a Sires’ Stakes heat in two weeks and not too long after that the Caduceus Club Final so it all comes around pretty quickly.

“But they are obviously heading in the right direction.”

Always B Misty was one of two early winners for the Telfers with Upstage leaving maidens at his third start and looking not finished yet.

“He is an improving horse and there is a lot more to some yet.”

The night that saw some fast times for a winter evening and a good night for Waikato raiders.

That started with Voronov in the first when he trotted 2:47.2 for 2200m standing start to give owner-trainer-driver Luk Chin a double for the week.

Claude was a hard-running winner of the third on the card to give Andrew and Lyn Neal their 250th winner together, the much-improved pacer adding gate speed to his arsenal and loving doing things tough.

The Waikato winners continued in the main trot when Hughie Wallace was a comprehensive winner for Morrinsville trainer Trevor Phillips, the five-year-old out of the broodmare gem Howz Lucky.

Howz Lucky has left 10 individual trotting winners and her only off spring to race and not win is Rosemaryz Luck, but she left star Australian trotter Majestuoso.

Waikato’s big night at the office was rounded out when Louezyana won the last for trainer David Butcher.

Inbetween all that Jeremiah returned for the second half of his three-year-old season with a brave win in the pacing feature, a leg of the Northern Metro series which carries a $35,000 final and already looks like being a success judging by the depth of the field.