Bobble wins $50,000 Sires Produce (1400m)

A promising Tasmanian filly has been labelled as “pretty special” after a breakthrough win at the weekend with more to come. Here’s why.

PROMISING filly Bobble overcame a few obstacles to impressively win Sunday’s $50,000 Sires Produce (1400m) in Hobart, but Brighton trainer Gary White is confident the best is yet to come.

After being slow to begin in a moderately run affair, Bobble powered home from the back of the field and – under hard riding from jockey Bulent Muhcu – eventually got the better of Hilarity to win by a neck.

“As horses with her ability do, she dug deep,” White said.

“She’s been looking for the paddock for about 10 days, so she’s just won on natural ability.”

It is amazing to think that a two-year-old with Bobble’s talent went around at odds of 100-1 in the $150,000 Gold Sovereign Stakes (1200m) at Launceston in February, albeit after an inexplicable debut in Hobart a month earlier when she finished second last and almost 17-lengths from the winner.

But her effort to finish fourth in the Gold Sovereign, – within a length of the winner after tracking wide throughout – only franked White’s opinion of Bobble, along with every trackwork rider who has ever got on her back.

Her maiden win in Hobart on March 19, and a brilliant trial a month later, saw her go around as the odds-on $1.80 favourite in the Sires, a race the White stable has targeted successfully in the past.

“She has a beautiful low action,” he said.

“We’ve always thought this horse was pretty special. Craig Newitt loved her mother Pompon, and we had plans to take her to Melbourne.”

Pompon was retired to stud with an injury after scoring two wins from just three starts, and Bobble is her first foal to reach the racetrack for owner-breeders David and Elizabeth Adams.

“It is great to see people who are such great supporters of racing being rewarded,” White said.

The daughter of American dual Group One winning stallion Bolt D’Oro will be targeted at the state’s three-year-old feature races following a spell.

Muhcu made it a feature race double later in the day on the Imogen Miller-trained filly Alvarinho in the Autumn Classic (1400m) for three-year-olds.