Miss Elly Mint Aims Up For Her 14th Consecutive Win
Miss Elly Mint's all the way win in last Tuesday's $25,000 to the winner final was her 13th victory in a row and took her record to an impressive 35 wins from 55 starts, with a further 11 placings.
Trainer Robert Smith was down playing the importance of tonight's race after the Gold Cup win saying “Monday night doesn't matter…..whether she wins 14 in a row or not…”.
But with connections on a high and the punting public now all behind her, Smith is sure to be feeling some pressure tonight as Miss Elly Mint lines up in Race 8 on tonight's Wentworth Park card.
Starting from box eight in tonight's Tedesco Menswear Free For All, Miss Elly Mint is ideally boxed having won 6 of her 9 starts from the punk draw, with a further two placings.
Both Hendrix and Repeated, who finished behind Miss Elly Mint in the 2009 Gosford Gold Cup Final, will start from boxes 1 and 3 respectively and trainer, Richie dean is sure to have both primed to try and stop Miss Elly Mint from putting 14 wins back to back.
[…] Elly Mint impressively won her 14th consecutive victory last night at Wentworth Park, when she bounded away well enough from box eight and then accelerated hard to lead all the way in […]