“She could be unbeaten and with more luck she could be nine from nine and she’s very unlucky not to have won a Group 1 here,” Ken Kelso said. “The Moir it’s 1000 metres for a start, a Group 1 race and she’s an on the pace runner so you’re thinking Moonee Valley will suit. “I think she’s come up really well, she has certainly grown and would have put on 35-40 kilograms.” Craig Williams got a feel for the $120,000 yearling buy at her latest run in autumn when the three-time Group winner in New Zealand led all of the way to take home the Listed HKJC World Pool Sprint Classic at Flemington. A recent trial at Te Rapa suggests she is ready to rip first up for her maiden Group 1 assignment in Australia. "We will roll the dice knowing it’s a big step up to weight-for-age as a four-year-old mare,” Kelso admitted. “There isn’t much over here for horses rated 100-plus until after Christmas and she proved when she won the World Pool Sprint she can mix it and got some Aussie black-type and this is the obvious next step. “I bought Levante down for the Newmarket and VRC Sprint but she’s a different sort of horse to her.” Saturday’s running of the Charter Keck Cramer Moir Stakes will be the 50th running of the race which boasts an honour roll including Manikato, Miss Andretti, Apache Cat, Nature Strip, Buffering on no less than three occasions, The Valley’s Sprint Queen Imperatriz and of course the invincible one - Black Caviar – who went back-to-back in 2010 & 2011.
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