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Harry's Yacht wins the Prestige Event Hire Handicap: Post Race Trainer and Jockey Quotes
Trainer and jockey quotes after the Prestige Event Hire BM78 Handicap at Bendigo on Wednesday taken out by Harry's Yacht.
Race Result:1st: Harry's Yacht (T&L Corstens, W Larkin/B Allen) - $82nd: Yaldi (A Forsman/L Cartwright) - $21
3rd: Sought After (P Moody, K Coleman/L Nolen) - $21
Winning Time: 1:03.71 Last 600m: NA
Margins: 1-¾ Lengths x 1-¼ Lengths
Winning Trainer: Leon & Troy Corstens, Will Larkin (Will interviewed)Bendigo Race 6 | Harry's Yacht
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ON how he's come to hand: "He's been prepping up really well the whole campaign and we've been very happy with him.
"He did the same thing last preparation as well; prepped up nicely with two trials and was able to go bang first-up.
On Ben Allen's winning ride: "He's, he's our stable rider, it's well-documented, we love putting him on. He always gets it right, he knows them very well because he has a lot of work on him at home, so great ride."
How the race unfolded: "For the first stages I was. They backed it off a little bit in the middle of tempo, and he can get a bit keen on the bridle and want to do a bit too much, and he did a little bit of it, but they were quickly tried to skip away again, so he was able to get in a nice rhythm.
"Just waited for a run to come but I was glad to see that it did."
Can he keep improving: "Yeah, definitely. He's always been a progressive horse. He's probably racing 20 kilos heavier of his time in, so good spell's done in the world of good.
"He's a horse that's still learning his craft and he's still putting him away like that. I think 1400 is his best trip, so to see him do it at 1100 is probably a very good sign."
Future plans: "Nothing set in stone. We'll probably just keep racing through his grades, we've been doing that the whole way along, and he's still eligible for benchmark racing so we may as well take that probably through the summer, and if we can find a nice Stakes race at the end of spring that'd be nice."
Winning Jockey: Ben Allen
On the horse: "The horse, he's a bit quirky. I think it's first time I've ridden him raceday, I've jumped him out heaps of times and you've kind of just got to find happy medium with him."
Hoe it unfolded: "The tempo is suited. The horse has been jumping out really well, and we got the right run.
"We had a soft run from the draw. Just had to wait and get him into the clear, but he was very powerful late.
"I was really hoping they were coming 'cause he was just starting to bridle up a bit more.
"It was getting to the point where I just keep going with him a bit, so it worked that well.
His ideal trip: "He's good enough to stick for the shorter trips. But once he kind of gets into his prep a little bit, obviously, he probably takes away a bit from his turn off foot, but he's a horse, if you can get him to relax over further and he can have that turn off foot, it gives him more options, so it's very good effort."
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