Recap by phillip woo

Mambo Rock settled at the rear early on, eased into the open one off at the 300m and quickened well to grab the win 200m out at his second start with a rise in trip. He's still learning and does have more to come. Favourite Arm Runda settled in the box-seat, handed the lead when Fionn's City ran out badly passing the 900m, straightened two lengths on top and kept grinding away to hold second. He had no excuse. Debutant Amritsaria travelled second from the back, improved to second at the 600m following an incident at the 900m, straightened three deep and stayed on well to just miss second. Look Eras improved to travel deep in fourth following a slow break, drifted back to last upon straightening and made some ground widest out until peaking on his run 100m out. Holy Unicorn did appear a beaten runner when getting steadied between runners 150m out following a one-out, one-back run. Debutant Fionn's City showed good gate speed to lead before showing his inexperience and drifted out badly approaching the first bend. As such, he wiped out the chances of the second favourite Bear Chum who was travelling to his outside.

Racing Incident Report

Race One: (657)-MIGHTY HIGH PLATE - Griffin Race - 1200Metres

LOOK ERAS began only fairly.

FIONN'S CITY shifted out at the start and bumped AMRITSARIA on two occasions, resulting in that horse being taken out onto the hindquarters of MAMBO ROCK which became unbalanced.

Shortly after the start, FIONN'S CITY commenced to hang out and then making the turn after the 900 Metres hung out badly and shifted towards the outside rail, resulting in BEAR CHUM being also taken towards the outside rail.

This resulted in FIONN'S CITY and BEAR CHUM taking no active part for the remainder of the race.

A veterinary inspection of FIONN'S CITY immediately following the race revealed the horse to have sustained an overreach wound to its left front heel and to be lame in that leg.

Before being allowed to race again, FIONN'S CITY will be required to perform satisfactorily in a series of consecutive barrier trials around a bend and be subjected to an official veterinary examination.

Also making the turn after the 900 Metres, LOOK ERAS got its head on the side and hung out.

LOOK ERAS was then steadied to join the main body of the field.

In the early stages, ARM RUNDA travelled keenly and got its head up on a number of occasions when proving difficult to settle.

In the early part of the Straight, MAMBO ROCK was held up for clear running behind ARM RUNDA.

Approaching the 100 Metres, HOLY UNICORN was steadied when briefly crowded for room between AMRITSARIA and LOOK ERAS, both of which shifted slight ground.

MAMBO ROCK and ARM RUNDA were sent for sampling.