Trots Centre: Special filly chases Super 10 from 10

The trots has a new poster girl and the brilliant, unbeaten star has fittingly emerged from the same patch of land as prodigiously talented Poster Boy.

Anne and Bill Anderson’s breeding ground of champions in Euroa, Lauriston Bloodstock, again has hearts fluttering with the arrival of stunning two-year-old filly Ladies In Red, who tonight chases a perfect win number 10 from as many starts.

“She just does it so easily,” Anne Anderson said. “She doesn’t appear to have to try as hard as some of them, and yet she does it in such quick time. She does it effortlessly.

“Her temperament and her gait, she’s a special filly. She’s obviously the best filly we’ve had.”

That’s no small compliment from the farm that’s produced the likes of prolific Group 1 winning mare Speak No Evil.

“(Ladies In Red’s) so mature for her age. She takes it all in her stride and is so workmanlike,” Anderson said. “She just gets out there and does what she has to do. She’s just a perfect racehorse.”

The Emma Stewart-trained filly is by Mach Three out of Kabbalah Karen C, the latter one of several mares the farm purchased from the US for outstanding returns.

Ladies In Red’s big brother Is Our Little General, a winner of $712,852, but even with that pedigree the filly wasn’t always thought of as being special.

“Early days she wasn’t outstanding in any way,” Anderson said. “Beach Music, to us, was the far more impressive type.

“When we went to the breakers we had about four fillies, they said this one’s the best, even better than the colts. We said, ‘OK then’. And each time she’s had a preparation she’s continued to improve.”

When she stopped the clock in 1:51.9 – 1.6 seconds under the Tabcorp Park Melton two-year-old record – to win a Group 2 in her third start all took notice, and that was then solidified with her grinding win in the Group 1 Breeders Crown, when she clawed over Tough Tilly.

One of five Stewart starters in tonight’s Vicbred Super Series final, Ladies In Red will have to be every bit as brilliant again at 8.58pm when she attempts to overcome her tricky gate eight draw to mow down likely leader Tough Tilly, who will start from gate two.

“I was a bit disappointed with the draw, but she will have to make the most of it and do her best,” Anderson said.

“(Reinsman) David (Moran) has driven her really well and come on a lot as a driver. I think his experience on Lochinvar Art has really helped him, he doesn’t seem to get fazed by the occasion, and neither does she – so it’s a good partnership.”

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