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The $3.5 million Golden Slipper has delivered a fairytale ending with champion jockey Tommy Berry guiding Vancouver to a win and a record-equalling sixth Slipper for trainer Gai Waterhouse.

Berry also added a second Slipper to his own trophy count with the victory, which was an emotional one less than a year on from the tragic death of his twin brother and fellow jockey Nathan.

“It was an emotional day – I don’t think I’ve got any tears left,” Berry said after the race.

“Even though he’s not here, he’s the biggest part of my life,” he said of Nathan, who died after a severe illness in April, 2014.

Emotions were running high for Waterhouse too – the record she equalled was held by her famous father, the late TJ Smith.

Waterhouse said she was driven to win the Slipper – the richest two-year-old race in the world – by the last thing her father said to her before his sudden death in 1998.

“He said ‘you make a man sick, you can’t train the two-year-olds’,” Waterhouse said after the race.

“So when he passed away only two days after, I said `I’m never going to let that be my thing’ – that was the driving force for me.”

Another Waterhouse-trained filly, English, took second place in the Slipper, followed by the John Hawkes-trained Lake Geneva.

It was a big Slipper Day overall for Waterhouse, who had only just left the winner’s circle after her mare Sweet Idea won Race 6, the $400,000 Canadian Club Galaxy with Blake Shinn at the reins.

 
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