Motorsports hits top gear in G3 Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield

Motorsports showed further improvement and gave a glimpse of even better wins ahead when she came from second-last at Caulfield on Saturday, 29 November to win the G3 Blue Sapphire Stakes for three-year-olds over 1,200m.

The Godolphin filly settled near the tail of the field for jockey Harry Coffey before sprouting wings from the 400m pole.

Having just her third race start for Flemington co-trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy, Motorsports beat Recuperato by three-quarters of a length, with Regeneration a length away in third place, stopping the clock at a handy 1 minute 10.84 seconds on a track rated Soft 6.

With the McEvoys in Adelaide, stable foreman Finn McCarthy said the three-year-old was improving all the time and predicted a bright future for her.

“She’s a gorgeous Street Boss filly and, hopefully, she can keep going on with it now,” McCarthy told Racing.com.
“Harry had to make a run from quite a way back and then she was very strong to the line.

“It’s terrific for a team like Godolphin to be getting these big winners.
“We feel she’ll improve from the run and, hopefully, there’s more to come.”

Motorsports graduated from a Pakenham maiden victory on 7 November after a debut second at Ballarat in October.
The daughter of dual Stakes-winning mare Jorda can only improve with maturity and experience and looks a possible autumn Stakes-race contender.

Coffey admitted he had to abandon a pre-race plan, but he had always hoped to ride Motorsports conservatively.

“I wanted to follow Mark (Zahra, Chergui) as I thought he’d take me right into the race, but he wasn’t able to do that,” Coffey said.
“I just had to come out and get into the race 50–100m earlier than I wanted.

“That probably showed late, but she won the race pretty easily in the end.
“Tony wanted me to ride her conservatively, have one crack at them and, as it panned out, it all went well.”

Coffey revealed he had always had a good opinion of Motorsports.

“I was lucky and fortunate enough to find her early in her career when she swapped from James Cummings to the McEvoy team,” he said.
“She’s a pleasure to ride, she does things right and she has a turn of foot – everything you want in horses.”