Blake Shinn picks up winning treble with Zanbagh in Emancipation Stakes

In form jockey Blake Shinn completed a winning treble at Rosehill today when he steered Zanbagh to an overdue win in the Group 2 $175,000 Ascend Sales Trophies Emancipation Stakes (1500m).

Zanbagh’s win in the Emancipation Stakes at Rosehill wrapped up a winning treble for jockey Blake Shinn. Photo by Steve Hart.

Shinn had previously won on the Peter and Paul Snowden trained two year old Attention in the Group 3 $150,000 The Schweppervescence (1400m) and on Malaguerra for Lee and Anthony Freedman in the Group 3 $150,000 Star Kingdom Stakes (1200m).

Zanbagh ($11) was having her third run back from a spell and Shinn brought her with a well timed run to score a half a length win over $31 outsider Supara with Amicus ($21) running on solidly down the middle of the track for third.

The Bernadini mare had been highly regard as a wet tracker but trainer John Thompson said she also had good form on dry tracks as she displayed on Good 3 Rosehill surface today.

“Her first two runs have terrific on dry track. We were actually going to miss today’s run and go straight into the Queen Of The Turf, thinking that it would be hard again here today,” Thompson said.

“She is going so well, we had to run her, she is just striving.”

Zanbagh will now head towards the Group 1 $1m Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on the second day off ‘The Championships’ in a fortnight.

“She goes to the Queen Of The Turf now,” Thompson said.

“She hasn’t missed a beat since she has been here.’
“I have kept her really fresh. She is going very well.”

Race favourite Solicit ($2.10) had to work hard in the early stages but couldn’t find the front and after sitting outside the leader faded in the straight to finish in twelfth position.

Emancipation Stakes Results

Finish	No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Bar.	Weight	Starting Price
1	8	ZANBAGH	John P Thompson	Blake Shinn	–	8	55kg	$11
2	13	SUPARA	Gai Waterhouse	Tommy Berry	0.5L	11	54kg	$31
3	1	AMICUS	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	0.6L	6	58kg	$21
4	4	BADAWIYA	Mick Price	Craig Newitt	0.7L	4	56kg	$4.20
5	7	SLIGHTLY SWEET	Jason Coyle	Jason Collett	1.7L	7	55.5kg	$20
6	11	JUST A BLUR	Barbara Joseph & Paul Jones	Mathew Cahill	2L	1	54kg	$71
7	10	LADY LE FAY (NZ)	Chris Waller	Craig Williams	2.1L	10	54kg	$14
8	3	PASADENA GIRL (NZ)	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	Damian Lane	3.3L	3	57kg	$26
9	6	CASINO DANCER	Mike Van Gestel	Tim Clark	3.8L	5	55.5kg	$71
10	9	TELEPATHIC (NZ)	Chris Waller	James McDonald	4.1L	9	54kg	$12
11	12	SKYLINE BLUSH	Anthony Cummings	Daniel Moor	4.3L	2	54kg	$61
12	2	SOLICIT	Gerald Ryan	Kerrin McEvoy	5.6L	13	57kg	$2.10F
13	5	THUNDER LADY (NZ)	John Sargent	Michael Walker	9.1L	12	56kg	$151