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Laddies Poker Two (grey) leaves her rivals for dead in the Wokingham

 Laddies Poker Two heaped further misery on the bookmakers as the Jeremy Noseda-trained grey landed a huge punt to take the Wokinghamas 9-2 favourite.

A succession of well-supported winners, starting in the very first race of the meeting with Goldikova in the Queen Anne and culminating with Starspangledbanner in the Golden Jubilee, had already made it a Royal Ascot to forget for bookmakers.And money had flooded in all week for Laddies Poker Two, who was making her comeback after 610 days off, so much so that she was sent off the 9-2 favourite having been available at 16-1 during the week.Noseda cheered the winner home as loudly as anyone and said: “This plan was hatched in December 2008 and we really fancied her for this race last year, but she got a bad injury in spring 2009 and we had to delay it a year.  

“[Ladbrokes PR director] Mike Dillon was the one who put the idea in my mind originally and I thought ‘why not’? It’s been a great team effort and I want to thank everyone at home for getting her back.”Owned by Derrick Smith, John Magnier and Michael Tabor, Laddies Poker Two sat almost last in the stands’ side group under Johnny Murtagh in the early stages.Knot In Wood led the stands’ side group along while Mac Gille Eoin matched strides with him as leader of the far-side group.With two furlongs to run Murtagh started to make his move and the mare cut through the field to the front before blasting away to the cheers of the crowd. 

Striking Spirit chased her home on the near side with Palace Moon grabbing third from Knot In Wood. Genki was first home on the far side in seventh.Noseda admitted plans for the winner went no further than this race and said:  “This was the plan and I’m not sure about the future. I would hope she would be good enough to win a stakes race and then we will take it from there.“I want to thank the owners for their patience and I’m just glad their patience has been rewarded.”

Murtagh said: “For once I’ve done everything the trainer has told me to do. I got her settled and moved through a furlong out. Jeremy said she might go right so I gave her plenty of room to move into.

“She won well, the jockey gets all the praise but a lot of it goes to the team. You don’t have to push the river, it just flows.”

Courtesy: www.racingpost.com 

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