No Looking Back will be given the chance to emulate her mother in January’s Magic Millions Classic after scoring an impressive debut win at Warwick Farm.
A $500,000 yearling, No Looking Back was heavily-backed to start the $2.40 favourite in the Saturday’s WF 100 Club Returns 2012 Handicap (1000m) and led in a Gai Waterhouse stable quinella.
No Looking Back wins the first race at Warwick Farm today in impressive style - Photo by Steve Hart
She defeated Blazing Snitzel, who drifted from $3.60 to $8, by three quarters of a length with another 2-1/4-lengths to Star Pass ($8) in third.
No Looking Back is a Redoute’s Choice daughter out of 2006 Magic Millions winner Mirror Mirror.
Waterhouse said the filly was one of several youngsters in her care heading towards the $2 million event on January 14.
Waterhouse has hit the ground running so far this season with her stable’s two-year-olds already winning four races in Sydney.
The trainer said both No Looking Back and Blazing Snitzel, as well as the likes of Driefontein, Pure Hustle and Kuchinskaya were Magic Millions bound.
“It’s a nice position to be in. Much better than last year,” Waterhouse said.
“We went to the Magic Millions this year and bought the horses we wanted to buy.
“We thought the winner was the loveliest filly in the sale and we didn’t think we would get her. We had to fight tenaciously to get her.”
No Looking Back bounced from the outside gate in the field of 10 and crossed to sit outside the leader Benedictus.
Blazing Snitzel, with Nash Rawiller aboard, pushed between the two leaders turning for home and looked a threat but when Hugh Bowman asked No Looking Back to extend she quickly put the result beyond doubt.
“She’s most impressive and I thought both fillies ran enormous races,” Waterhouse said.
“No Looking Back is just a lovely filly and I may run her one more time (before the Magic Millions) or I may turn her out. I’ll just wait and see.”
Bowman said the winner still had improvement in her but was impressed with the way she attacked the line.
“She’s pretty natural but she will improve,” Bowman said.
“She’s still lacking a bit of confidence in what she is supposed to be doing, but when I asked her to stretch she was never going to get beat.”
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