Saturday 3rd October 2009
Supaseus lands the Cambridgeshire
Supaseus (far side) edges totesport.vcom Cambridgeshire thriller from Tartan Gigha. Picture: Chris Bourchier
SUPASEUS registered the biggest win of his career when making virtually every yard of the running in the totesport.com Cambridgeshire, one of the biggest handicaps of the year, to land the first prize of almost £100,000.
Hughie Morrison's charge, ridden by Travis Block, was strongly challenged in the closing stages by Tartan Gigha, but he battled all the way to the line to prevail by the narrowest of margins at odds of 16-1.
Nanton finished a length and a quarter back in third, with the well-backed Applause in fourth.
A jubilant Morrison said of the winner, who suffered a cracked pelvis in Dubai in February and didn't run again until late July: "After he ran in Dubai earlier this year I wasn't sure we'd ever get him back to the horse he used to be.
"With these big horses it takes a run or two to get them back and it was always the plan to make the running, but I have to say Travis gave him an absolute peach."
Block added: "Mr Morrison said if we got an easy lead we were happy enough to break.
"All credit to Mr Morrison for getting this horse back and I'm just thankful I got the ride on him today."
