CLINTON MCDONALD ADMITS HE WASN’T FOND OF THE NAME ‘HAYASUGI’ WHEN IT FIRST APPEARED ON HIS DESK, WHICH MEANS FAST IN JAPANESE, BUT AFTER THE FILLY BY ROYAL MEETING ACHIEVED THE HISTORIC TREBLE OF WINNING THE BLUE DIAMOND FILLIES PREVIEW, BLUE DIAMOND FILLIES PRELUDE AND THE BLUE DIAMOND ITSELF, THE NAME HAS BEEN JUSTIFIED AND THE CRANBOURNE BASED TRAINER HAS SINCE COME AROUND. Hayasugi made her debut over 1000 metres at The Valley on Ladbrokes Cox Plate Day last year, the same course and distance she will tackle in Saturday’s Group 1 Charter Keck Cramer Moir Stakes. A runner-up performance behind the speedy Bold Bastille in the Inglis Banner confirmed the talent she had shown in her jump outs, but it wasn’t until her second preparation where the penny began to drop, and the picket fence was built. BLUE DIAMOND WINNER SET TO SPARKLE IN THE CHARTER KECK CRAMER BY BEN CALUZZI
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