WHEN Spreyton trainer Adam Trinder set about finding a race that might give his handy mare Beautiful Buns some black type on her CV, few expected him to target the $100,000 Vamos Stakes over 1400m in Launceston.
But that’s what he did and last night (Wednesday) the mare delivered the goods t7op cause a boilover in what was the second leg of Tasmania’s feature weight-for-age double for fillies and mares.
Beautiful Buns outgunned Tasmania star sprinting mare Rebel Bride over the concluding stages to defeat that mare by a nose with Victorian mare Tariana the same margin away third.
It was a thrilling finish with Tariana leading and then joined by Rebel Bride 200 metres out.
The pair looked set to fight it out just as they did in the $150,000 Group 3 Bow Mistress (1200m) in Hobart 17 days earlier in which Rebel Bride made it back-to-back wins in that race defeating Tariana.
But Beautiful Buns was given a cosy run behind the leaders by top South Australian jockey Clare Lindop and when she eased to the outside of the leaders 200 metres out the gallant five-year-old dug deep and got the bob in right on the line.
Beautiful Buns paid $37.10 on the Tote but she was backed in from $151 to $51 on fixed odds giving those astute punters some sizeable dividends.
Trinder set the mare for the Vamos after she ran midfield in a benchmark 68 race over 1420 metres in Launceston in mid November.
Trinder placed her in two class four races in which she was placed in both leading up to the Vamos.
The stable ended the night with a double when Lindop partnered lightly raced stayer Packedtotherafters to victory in a Benchmark 68 over 2100 metres.
Listen to what trainer Adam Trinder had to say about Beautiful Buns’ Vamos win – CLICK HERE.