Miss Andretti
Stride By Stride - 2007 Newmarket Handicap
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What a race of sprinting champions, what a clash, what excitment, WHAT a finsih!
Stride by Stride is the name of this great piece simply because that is exactly what the race was about. The two champions Miss Andretti and Gold Edition went Stride for Stride from the home turn, with the gutsy and classy mare Miss Andretti putting in the bob right on the line to claim victory over Gold Edition and Undue! Six great action shot photos taken from the 200m to the winning post showing all three placegetters going "Stride for Stride".
Trainer Lee Freedman labeled Miss Andretti the sprinting version of Makybe Diva after her victory in the Group 1 Seppelt Wines Newmarket Handicap, 1200 metres, at Caulfield on Saturday.
“In terms of her reliability and her overall record, she's up there with Makybe Diva,” Freedman said. “Makybe Diva broke all the weight carrying records and this mare's doing the same.”
Miss Andretti carved out the 1200 metres in a sizzling 1.07.74, taking 0.36 seconds off the previous record held by Hurricane Sky and You Remember.
“The time surprised me,” Freedman said. “Coming to the corner, with the weight, she was under a bit of pressure to make up ground on the leaders.
“But she's got an amazing will to win this mare and to carry that record weight and to get past a three-year-old as good as that and run that time is outstanding.”
Freedman said Miss Andretti probably deserved the rating of the best sprinter he has trained.
“She's got to be rated right there with them. Schillaci won a Galaxy with 57kg as a three-year-old, but this mare has done everything ever asked of her,” he said.
“The best we ever had was probably Schillaci and Bint Marscay and this mare is right up there with them.”
She's just a freak,” Newitt said. “She's like driving a Ferrari. You just have to point her in the right direction and she just does it.”
Newitt said Miss Andretti's win on Saturday was the best of her Group 1's.
“She was dead on her feet in the last 50 metres but I'm sure if they came at her she would have responded,”