Hot Danish Wins 2010 Sydney City Lexus Shorts – Randwick Race 9 Results

Class shone through in Race 9 at Randwick this afternoon when Les Bridge’s star mare Hot Danish won the $200,000 Group 2 The Sydney City Lexus Shorts (1200m).

Backed into the clear $1.75 favourite to win at Sportsbet, there was some late concern surrounding Hot Danish after rain at the Randwick track softened the ground.

The brilliant seven-year-old is known to be not great on wet ground, but had won the Group 1 Doomben 10,000 in the autumn on a soft track and managed to get up there again today in a gutsy and well-deserved win.

Following a slight delay getting the runners into the stalls after Kroner lost a shoe, Hot Danish and jockey Tim Clark broke fast from barrier eight but sat back from the early leaders.

Shellscrape took over to lead in the opening stages, with Tickets wearing blinkers today also racing a bit keenly up the middle.

At the start it was Shellscrape leading from Montana Flyer with Pinwheels in third, but soon Hot Danish started to come fast on the outside.

On the home straight Rick Worthington’s roughie Whitefriars put in a super effort to get out in front, with Hot Danish and Shellscrape also pushing forward making it a three horse battle for the line.

Shellscrape was on the inside with Hot Danish in the middle and Whitefriars having a career best run on the outside of the favourite.

With meters to go it looked like Hot Danish might not get there but she showed her class, pinned her hears back and the wonderful mare got the job done.

In the end it was Hot Danish ($1.75) ahead of Whitefriars ($31) in a photo finish for second with Shellscrape ($6.50) a brave third.

Trainer Les Bridge said after the race he couldn’t wait to get to Melbourne after Hot Danish did so well today, second up after a spell on a track that didn’t suit her.

Hot Danish has now won 16 of her 27 career starts for over $2.1 million in prize money.

The final race on the card at the Royal Randwick this afternoon is the $100,000 Listed Angst Stakes (1400m) where Shannara is the odds-on favourite and our top pick to win.

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2010 The Sydney City Lexus Shorts Results

Pos	Horse	Margin	Price	Barrier	Benchmark	Weight	Jockey	Trainer
01	5.HOT DANISH		$1.80F	8	118.00	56.5	Tim Clark	Les Bridge
02	11.WHITEFRIARS	0.2	$31.00	10	89.00	54	Jim Cassidy	Rick Worthington
03	3.SHELLSCRAPE	0.3	$6.50	5	102.00	57	Hugh Bowman	Chris Waller
04	6.DEMERIT	1.6	$15.00	7	96.00	56.5	Nash Rawiller	Peter Snowden
05	8.PINWHEEL	1.8	$16.00	6	101.00	56	Joshua Parr	Peter Snowden
06	7.DAO DAO	1.9	$15.00	4	111.00	56	Rod Quinn	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes
07	2.TICKETS	2.4	$51.00	3	98.00	57.5	Michael Rodd	Joseph Pride
08	9.AL DHAFRA	3.1	$26.00	9	93.00	56	Blake Shinn	Guy Walter
09	10.MONTANA FLYER	3.2	$15.00	2	100.00	55	Peter Robl	Gai Waterhouse
10	1.ALBERT THE FAT	3.9	$12.00	11	107.00	58	Corey Brown	Paul Messara
11	4.KRONER (NZ)	12.4	$201.00	1	99.00	57	Kathy O’Hara	Robert Price