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Music Time hits a high note in Black Opal

Music Time, the two-year-old they call "Rocket", lived up to his nickname with a tremendous display of sustained speed to win the Group 3 $200,000 Black Opal Stakes (1200m) at Canberra on Sunday.

Trainer: GRATZ VELLA after, Stephan winning the Elderton Homes (Bm88)
Trainer: GRATZ VELLA after, Stephan winning the Elderton Homes (Bm88) Picture: Racing and Sports
Trainer Gratz Vella secured his second Black Opal and jockey Pierre Boudvillain won his first Group-class race when Music Time ($4) won by nearly two lengths from the fast-finishing Pearl Of Dubai ($4.20) with Threads ($9) a length away third.

Hometown hero Music Time's win was popular with the Canberra faithful but Vella wasn't letting himself get carried away by the emotion of the moment when he ruled out paying a late entry fee into the Golden Slipper in two weeks.

"From day one, Music Time showed me he would be competitive in the Black Opal,'' said Vella who won the race previously with You're Canny in 2011.

"Have a look at what he did today, he did it hard taking on the other of the local horses (Bar Jester, fourth) for the lead but the way he finished off was unreal.

"I am going to be fair to him, he will go out for a spell, and hopefully when he comes back we can look at bigger things with him.''

Music Time is by four-time Group 1 winner All Too Hard, himself a half-brother to all-time great sprinter Black Caviar.

But Music Time was purchased for just $45,000 at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale last year and with his third successive win from just four starts, the gelding has already earned more than $170,000 prizemoney.

Boudvillain is NSW's leading jockey this season and was elated to finally win a Group race.

"He's an impressive horse,'' Boudvillain said. "I was positive early, he jumped quick, mustered really fast and crossed them with ease.

"I went with the flow and at the top of the straight I thought I am going to easily. But he just keeps going, he is a rocket!"

#Touristic gave champion trainer Peter Snowden a hat-trick of stakes wins in as many days when he finished powerfully to win the Listed $200,000 Canberra Cup (2000m) at Canberra on Sunday.

TOURISTIC winning the KIA LORD MAYORS CUP
TOURISTIC winning the KIA LORD MAYORS CUP Picture: Martin King / Sportpix
Snowden, who also prepared Black Opal runner-up Pearl Of Dubai at the feature Canberra meeting, continued his stable's big-race winning momentum after he prepared Tuileries to win the Group 3 Newcastle Stakes at Newcastle on Friday before crack colt Beadman won the Listed Fireball Stakes at Randwick yesterday.

Touristic ($9), part-owned by Racing And Sports colleague Jake Altieri, came from near last on the turn to win the Canberra Cup from Geemes ($26) with Travolta ($2.50 favourite) one-and-a-half lengths away third.

#There was a rare Freedman family trifecta in the Listed $165,000 National Sprint (1400m) won by the Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Green Fly.

Green Fly ($5.50) came from near last on the turn to run down the Michael Freedman-trained Ducasse ($20) near the line with Magnatear ($14), trained by Richard and Will Freedman, just over a length away third.

#Trainer Michael Freedman didn't go home empty-handed when he claimed the Listed $165,000 Canberra Guineas (1400m) when Aerodrome ($12) scored by three-quarters of a length from Cando Attitude ($31) with Azarax ($11) a close third.


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