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Sayedaty Sadaty wins the Bendigo Cup: Post Race Trainer and Jockey Quotes
Trainer and jockey quotes following the Group 3 Ladbrokes Bendigo Cup won by Sayedaty Sadaty at Bendigo on Wednesday.
Race Result:1st: Sayedaty Sadaty (C Maher/H Coffey) - $6.502nd: Quietness (J O'Shea, T Charlton/J Melham) - $3.30 fav
3rd: Raging Bull (A Pace/P Moloney) - $61
Winning Time: 2:29.20 Last 600m: NA
Margins: 1 Length x 2 Lengths
Winning Trainer: Ciaron MaherBendigo Cup | Sayedaty Sadaty@HTCoffey wins his 3rd Bendigo Cup! @cmaherracing
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On the win and the preparation: "Fantastic. I'm just rapt, the team have done a super job with this horse. He's lost his way a little bit, and as I said pre-race, we've got a good record with those stayers when you freshen them up (with) a good distance between runs.
"It was a beautiful ride then. Harry just seems to get it right on those stayers.
"The Archer run was very good and then that next one, it just didn't suit him that race shape at all when the other horse took off and it can bottom a horse when they're in a race like that but that's why I'm just rapt for the team. The horse is very deep into the preparation, he's run super and we'll see where he fits in Tuesday."
Satisfaction from the win: "We brought him out and we ran in a Caulfield Cup, that'd didn't sort of work out straight off the plane, so it does. It gives me great satisfaction and the Bendigo Cup, what a cracking day, there's a heap of people here and we always target well and the horses have run well (in the Melbourne Cup) that have run well in this race…High Emocean, Interpretation.
"Hopefully this horse is another one. We'll just tick him over now and hopefully he gets a spot."
Will he run 3200m: "He had a beautiful run then, I would be interested to see what Harry thinks. You don't really know until you go to it but he's had the right prep for it and I wouldn't be surprised if he got it."
On teaming with Harry Coffey: "His old man Austy helped me saddle up the four runners and he's actually taken up the one in the next race because I thought I might be a bit busy here.
"Harry, he's just a super bloke. He's just growing in confidence every year and he's just a big-race rider and that was super. Simply very easy to watch."
Winning Jockey: Harry Coffey
On winning the Bendigo Cup: "Always good to win major races, especially on days like this. I spent a lot of time in Bendigo so I love this raceday and I love winning the Bendigo Cup and I've been fortunate enough to ride some hand horses in it and this year I've been able to do it again."
Was he always confident in the run: It actually worked out perfect. I was almost like we went for a nice gallop and I produced him with 300 metres to go and it was like he just had to set out and run down his gallop mate.
"It was a perfectly-run race for him, perfect set-up, I landed in a good position following good riders on nice chances and got a beautiful rails run, allowed the back made up a bit of ground to get on Jamie's back and all I needed was an out and when that came he produced and was too good."
On the horse and did Ciaron sound confident: "He was. I actually rang him before, because I didn't know if he'd be here today and I had my dad with me and he was going into a tent with some blokes and he said he need a tip and I saod which one's the best in the Cup. He said 'that's a silly question, you're on it'.
"Ciaron was happy with the horse, that race the other day, it was a high-pressure event but there's been a lot of form come out of it.
"Today's scenario he got got a beautiful run, brought his best and hopefully that gives him a lot of confidence and we can now see him run in good races regularly."
Can he be competitive in a Melbourne Cup: "I won this race on High Emocean years ago and we saw what she was able to do in a Melbourne Cup and this bloke was probably just as dynamic, if not better today.
"Different fields, different scenarios, but this race the last few years has produced horses running so well in the Melbourne Cup and I think sometimes the Bendigo Cup gets forgotten about but the last few years it'd produced the good and I can't see why this fella can't do that again."
On Austy's role: "He's doing some liaising in some tents with the owners, helped Ciaron saddle up…he might need a job, we don't have many in work, so he might be looking for a bit of pay but it's good to have him here.
"I'm pretty busy at home with a new baby so dad's been driving me around and helping out and it does make things easier."
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