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Stokke wins the Century Stakes: Post Race Trainer and Jockey Quotes
Trainer and jockey quotes following the Listed NYE at Flemington Century Stakes won by Stokke at Flemington on Thursday.
Race Result:1st: Stokke (Patrick Ryan Jnr/Damian Lane) - $7.502nd: Major Share (Adam Chambers/Tom Madden) - $9.00
3rd: Rey Magnerio (Robbie Griffiths/Jye McNeil) - $2.50 fav
Winning Time: 57.02 Last 600m: N/A
Margins: Long Head x 3/4 lengths
Winning Trainer: Patrick Ryan JnrThe will to win
STOKKE holds off the fight from the field to take out the last on #OaksDay.
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— Victoria Racing Club (@FlemingtonVRC) November 6, 2025
Watched from afar: "When it gets close, I like to ride them home, so I didn't want anyone around me.
So, yeah, I changed the whip a couple of times up there. Straightened her up, but no, sensational win. Great for the owner group, especially Rob Salter, who puts a lot of money and time into it."
"Just a sensational little mare, she's been a project. Daniel Small at Warrnambool, he sort of half broke her in early doors and got all the kinks out of her and now she's furnished with a racehorse and hopefully the ownership group, now she's got black type, anything's a bonus for them."
Coming to the straight: "She's always struggled going around corners, so we couldn't wait to get her up the straight. She's got a beautiful galloping action, but often rushes it around the bend and gets on the wrong leg."
"So we were quietly confident that she'd excel up the straight, but you never know when you've got horses like Rey Magnerio and those sort of proper group quality horses she's got to take a proper step to beat them."
"But her ratings in her two wins at Sandown and Moonee Valley were very good and like i've said before Bobby Salter doesn't mind having to throw it at the stumps and it's paid off today."
Small team: "He's always at me to take more horses, I own a lot myself and just a few for Rob. I like to have hands on and just play around with the small team."
"I do it more for enjoyment than anything else. I've branched out to sort of 8, 10, 12 horses at a time and the enjoyment just went out the window."
"So I just keep a small team of about 5 or 6 horses and all of them are generally Metro quality and luckily we've got a Stakes quality one now."
Quinella with Adam Chambers: "It's ironic. We were saying on the way down, we've got a friend of ours, Jeff Withers, who said 'if you go to the races together, you tie up together, you run in the same race, you finish together every time."
"And we've been following it, and we go, 'he's bloody right, this bloke' and sure enough, it's happened again. We were just hoping it wasn't 10th and 11th."
Winning Jockey: Damian Lane
"She was brilliant. Obviously, probably a touch out of her class but Patrick Ryan, a very good trainer, and doesn't have a lot of horses in work, he knew what he was bringing to the races.
"She's got a good record and progressed through the grades really well. She's got nice wins still ahead of her."
"Patty's a good fella and a very good horseman, he's only got a small stable but they always punch above their weight so it's a good thrill."
"Early I was a bit concerned as she had got the chewy and got her head up a little bit, but after the first third of the race, she really started to collect herself nicely and build into it well and from there, she was brilliant."
"I think with that experience under her belt, it (straight racing) is definitely something they can aim at in the future."
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