Parkes Gets Julinsky Prince Home at Trentham
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Under a heady ride from jockey Johnathon Parkes, Julinsky Prince got the second group I win of his career in the Captain Cook Stakes Dec. 5 at Trentham.
Parkes sent the 6-year-old Darci Brahma gelding forward midway through the slowly run race to sit just outside pacesetter Authentic Paddy. The race looked wide open until midstretch when Julinsky Prince and runner-up Authentic Paddy quickened stride for stride to the post with Soriano arriving in a flurry for a blanket finish.
Julinsky Price won by a short head while covering 1,600 meters in 1:38.73 on a turf course rated dead. He earned his 10th win from 33 career starts, which include a fourth in last year's edition of the race for Fraser Auret, who trains for owner/breeder Bromley Bloodstock.
"They were going quite slowly and he wanted to get going, so I let him slide from the 800 and he just kept kicking," Parkes said of Julinsky Prince, who captured the Windsor Park Plate ((NZ-I) Oct. 24 and came into Saturday's race after finishing third to Soriano in Tauranga Stakes (NZ-II) Nov. 14.
"He's a star and every time he goes out he tries 110%. He's a neat horse and so easy to ride."
Shuka, winner of the previous two editions of the Captain Cook, was fifth in the nine-horse field. Favorite Kawi made no impression from the back of the field in the stretch and finished sixth.
Julinsky Prince, whose dam is the Stravinsky mare Julinksy Princess, could stretch out to 2,000 meters (about 1 1/4 miles) the Zabeel Classic (NZ-I) Dec. 26 at Ellerslie.