Graeme Sanders wasn't kidding on Saturday when he declared he was the only man in New Zealand who can keep 11 women happy for a year.
Yesterday he was hedging the bet a little, or at least risking it.
The 11-woman syndicate for which Sanders won Saturday's $100,000 Grosvenor Championship Stakes with Elevenses, immediately indicated a wish to take the filly for a three-race campaign in Adelaide.
Sanders yesterday declared himself a chauvinist and said he would be making the decision where the filly went and it would not be until the end of the week.
Game call when the syndicate includes your wife and daughter.
"I know they all want to go to Adelaide, including the one I'm married to and my daughter."
He had the grace to laugh with the delivery.
Sanders and his daughter and training partner Debbie have had their problems with Elevenses and Sanders says he wants to see which Australian carnival his main opposition are going to.
Elevenses is tough and for that reason the Adelaide triple crown series in April and May, with a $A500,000 bonus, is attractive.
Sanders is concerned because Elevenses injured herself when she went berserk in the barrier stalls before the Eulogy Stakes at Awapuni in December.
"Although she's over most of her physical problems and, oddly, I was never worried about this race.
"Today she was as well as she was when she went down for the Eulogy, which is the best she'd been.
"One thing that niggles at me though is how she might react in different barriers in Australia. You wouldn't want a repeat of what happened at Awapuni."
Rider Mark Sweeney is the filly's greatest fan.
"She's so tough she's a freak," he says. "Not many fillies would have copped what she's been through and come back."
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