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Trainer and jockey quotes after Immediacy takes out the Group 2 Stow Storage Autumn Classic at Caulfield on Saturday.
Race Result:
1st: Immediacy (L Currie/T Busuttin & N Young) - $4.80
2nd: Caracas (M Zahra/A & S Freedman) - $3.20 fav
3rd: Our Couver (C Williams/J Hunter) - $17
Winning Time: 1:49.61 Last 600m: N/A
Margins: 3 lengths x 1/2 length
Immediacy reigns supreme in the Autumn Classic & remains unbeaten for @busuttin pic.twitter.com/pCTmmgxQjR
— Racing.com (@Racing) February 24, 2024
Winning Trainer: Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young (Young speaking)
Decision to put blinkers on: "It really was (awesome), we ummed and ahhed about the blinkers and we ran Luke during the week and said what we've seen on the track it really made him concentrate a little bit and then they went a little bit slow, the tempo, and he did overrace there a touch but once he got off the rail and got clear air he was off and gone."
Raw talent: "At home on the track he really put his head down and concentrated, he's won three from three now and the first two he did a lot wrong and still got off the bit at the six hundred, looked like he was never going to win at Sandown and he came down and won so it's exciting to have a horse that can put three together and a group two on the way up and we might have a genuine good Derby horse, hopefully."
Group 1 goals: "We'll probably head to a Rosehill Guineas, it's good prize money, gets to run that way around and then head into the Australian Derby."
Winning Jockey: Luke Currie
During the run: "Today, first time in the blinkers, he jumped away quite well today, which he also did last time but he just lost the bridle through the run last time, today he was probably doing it a little bit too keen if anything, five weeks between runs with the blinkers on, but that run under his belt might take that away from him a little bit, he showed a good turn of foot when I asked him when he came out."
Blinkers on: "For a horse, he's a bit of a baby, I think the blinkers really did the trick coming to Caulfield for the first time, it was good thinking by Nat and Trent to do that, take the risk that he may do too much but with that bit of a break he ate up the 1800, it was a nice effort."
Possible Rosehill Guineas tilt: "He'll have a bit of trouble getting me off him, anyway."
