Feilding owner-trainer Ann Davies was as stunned as anyone when Starboardsuzy rocketed home to win at huge odds yesterday.
Starboardsuzy paid a whopping $90.60 for the win and helped bump up the TAB treble to more than $21,000 at the Egmont Racing Club's meeting at Hawera.
"I didn't even back her. I always do, I could cry," she said afterwards. "I didn't think she had a hope. I was just hoping she would finish in the first half of the field."
The five-year-old mare has been something of a handful to train.
"She's hardly had a run. She missed a trial because of a cold, then missed an other because she hurt a leg," said Davies.
"I took her to the Kapiti Beach races and she got a fright. She wiped out a fence and swam the river and ended up 10km away. That's the only real run she's had."
- NZPA
Racing: Suzy stuns them all
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