Call Me Gorgeous stamped himself as a horse to follow when producing a barnstorming run, coming from well back, to win going away by a widening 1,68 length margin in a BM72 Handicap over 1200m at Warwick Farm.
It was not so much the fact that Call Me Gorgeous won. It was the way he won that caught the eye.
Jumping from draw number seven out of nine, Call Me Gorgeous (the $3 second favourite) couldn’t get in and, while Nash Rawiller had him travelling well enough in the early part, he was sitting three wide and all of five lengths off the speed, which was being set by the $2.50 favourite Castlejohn.
Call Me Gorgeous was closer in a packing field on cornering, but now all of six wide, in a race which quickly became an outright cavalry charge to the finish with no less than seven runners stretched across the track in the leading line with 150m left to run.
It was no place for the faint-hearted and Call Me Gorgeous didn’t blink.
Instead, he just kept coming … and kept coming fast, to the extent that he had all of his rivals covered coming thorough the 100m mark.
It was a big win, particularly coming as it did on the back of a similar notable win (by 2.98 lengths) in his previous start over in a BM64 Handicap over 1200m at Newcastle.
These two wins have left Call Me Gorgeous unbeaten in the two races he has contested since returning from Hong Kong.
You could say he has made a statement!
“When he got to the outside and started to lengthen his stride and extend, the confidence grew very quickly,” said David Pfieffer.
“In the last two starts he’s shown me the ability he showed me before he went to Hong Kong, so it is great to see the horse performing at his peak and getting a second lease of life.”
