By MIKE DILLON
Barriers draws are funny things, they cost you races.
They went a long way towards costing Kapiston the $150,000 Mercedes Super Bonus Fillies Series at Ellerslie yesterday.
But her stablemate Dance Class copped the luck Kapiston missed out on, and took the race handsomely under visiting Melbourne rider Nash Rawiller.
"Reverse the barrier draws and perhaps you get a different result," lamented Michael Coleman, who found himself five and six wide on the home bend on Kapiston.
"She's had two starts and has had her chances destroyed by the barrier draw both times," said winning trainer Mike Moroney of his third-placed runner.
Rawiller got the good luck on the winner.
"She's a real 2-year-old type and finished the race off nicely," he said.
Moroney was pleased to score a win in a good juvenile event because he feels he has a strong line-up of 2-year-old talent in his Matamata stable this season, but luck has so far eluded him.
"I rate the filly I sent to Awapuni last week, Burwood Road.
"She pulled up sore and I thought she had broken a pastern, but it turned out to be a badly pulled muscle.
"We've had to leave her down there meantime."
Moroney also has a lot of time for a Royal Academy half sister to Cat Nip.
The favourite Flying Babe, a last-start winner ridden by Michael Walker, at no stage looked a winning chance yesterday.
Flying Babe finished 5.1 lengths from the winner in seventh place.
Racing: Draw the key to juvenile's victory
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