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Pre-race interviewers take note, there is one important question for Jerome Hunter next time they get him before one of his team go around in a feature race; “is the family on track?”.
Minutes after Rich Fortune made it back-to-back wins to start the preparation, Hunter was interviewed by Racing.com with his wife and children alongside and said there was a good reason they were on track.
“They’ve all come out because they knew we were going to go pretty close today,” the Mornington trainer said.
Rich Fortune, a daughter of Rich Enuff, started $12 and overcame being held up for much of the first half of the straight to unleash a powerful late burst and run down Queen Of The Ball ($5.50), having a half-head to spare on the line.
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