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www.racingnsw.com.au 29 but it went down to the wire.” Think It Over is on a path to the Cox Plate later this spring and looks set to make his presence felt in the race if he can maintain his form over the next six weeks. Jamaea is only having a light spring carnival with the Prices keen to target the $2 million Magic Millions Guineas in January, but she was still able to make a major impact. A winner of the Group 2 Percy Sykes Stakes during the autumn, Jamaea’s win in the Furious Stakes also provided Kembla Grange-based apprentice Brock Ryan with his first stakes success and came for his bosses. Ryan only got the ride after Tommy Berry was suspended but the young gun made the most of his chance. “The owners stuck solid to him when the real good jockeys were available,” Luke Price said. “We made our mind up a long way that Brock was going to ride her. “November last year when we first gave her a jump out, Brock said just going to the gates on her after he’d given her a gallop a couple of days earlier, that he thought she was special and has lived up to it every time we’ve stepped her out to the races.” Ryan was ecstatic to make the most of his big race opportunity: “It’s awesome. I’m stoked,” he said. “When Tommy got outed (suspended) I actually told Luke I know I’m not going to ride her, and we were liaising with who to put on. I was giving him ideas of what riders would suit her. “Anyway, I ended up on her and it’s amazing to get the win.” Ryan added a second Group 2 success later in the same month when booting home Chat to win the Theo Marks Stakes. Kembla Grange has taken centre stage throughout this Spring Carnival due to the COVID outbreak in Sydney and the track has stood up to the test with aplomb. Jamaea (Brock Ryan) gets up in the final bound to land the Furious Stakes