Leap To Fame wins Miracle Mile
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00:00 Racing in the Miracle Mile. One of the best away was Hi My Name Is Jeff Speak
00:06 The Truth showing good speed but have a look at Jeff come across he's just going
00:10 roughly oh he's bobbled out of his gear Hi My Name Is Jeff so Speak The Truth is
00:15 going to scoot through and go to the lead Spirit of St. Louis gets the trail
00:18 they were followed next on the outside by Link to Fame Hi My Name Is Jeff is
00:23 down and pacing but just going very ungainly out of the straight sooner the
00:27 better Loyalist has lobbed the 1-1 they were followed behind them then by
00:30 Don't Stop Dreaming and Frankie Ferocious is last first quarter was 26
00:35 one they go to the back and Speak The Truth was able to hold the lead Spirit
00:39 of St. Louis is second and up on the outside Link to Fame punching the breeze
00:43 they were followed then by sooner the better Loyalist in the 1-1 Hi My Name
00:47 Is Jeff is three back in the moving line followed by Don't Stop Dreaming and last
00:51 of all is Frankie Ferocious the best part of 25 meters off the top they run
00:56 inside the halfway mark 28 the second quarter 54 and one the half and the
01:01 leader is one of the Queenslanders Speak The Truth his compatriot is up on the
01:05 outside sitting in second spot Link to Fame gets to the leaders wheel 600 to go
01:09 Spirit of St. Louis under lock and key next the outsiders Loyalist sooner the
01:14 better Hi My Name Is Jeff from Frankie Ferocious and Don't Stop Dreaming's last
01:19 of all as they come for the money and group one glory in the Miracle Mile and
01:23 the leader is Speak The Truth but here comes Link to Fame nowhere to go for
01:28 Spirit of St. Louis they were followed further back in the field then by sooner
01:31 the better getting into the clear at the right time Link to Fame goes to the lead
01:35 he's the boulder in the field sooner the better sidling up alongside Frankie
01:40 Ferocious into the clear from Spirit of St. Louis Link to Fame needs to fight he
01:44 leads again Link to Fame this could be a historic victory this standard-bred
01:49 superstar what a wiener too good Link to Fame he was just about down and out when
01:54 sooner the better got on terms but he has fought back and a historic win in
01:58 the big one goes home to beat sooner the better Speak The Truth has wound up
02:02 running into third spot and fourth there was a few of them there they included
02:06 Spirit of St. Louis not all that far away in the final wash-up was Frankie
02:10 Ferocious in company there with Hi My Name Is Jeff Loyalist was back near the
02:15 tail end of the field in that bunch was Don't Stop Dreaming but Link to Fame he
02:19 was just about headed by sooner the better the roughy but like champions do
02:25 they fight and poetry in motion Link to Fame fights back to win it nine on the
02:33 board in 148 - 148 - is the time and the winner of the race number nine Link to
02:42 Fame Grant Dixon five is second sooner the better is running a mighty race
02:48 third has gone to one Speak The Truth and number ten Frankie Ferocious wound
02:53 up getting the fourth just in advance of a couple of horses on his inside nine
02:57 five one and ten 148 - number eight ran fifth 26 1 28 27 3 26 9 and the winner
03:07 of the race and that is Link to Fame he's done it all now pretty much Link to
03:12 Fame has scored officially by the margin about to flash onto the board in 148 -
03:18 the interim nine five one ten two and a quarter the winning margin three and a
03:22 quarter second and third well you're right out of superlatives when you talk
03:26 about a horse of this this quality he is a champion from head to toe and Brit I
03:31 bet you are absolutely beaming the Queenslanders have run first and third
03:40 well there he is coming down the straight one more time ladies and gents
03:47 the victorious Link to Fame
03:52 ten consecutive wins make that now 11 the interdominium the Hunter Cup and now
04:07 into the record books with victory and Australia's greatest mile beautiful
04:16 pictures up on the big screen the winning connections leap to fame
04:37 (laughing)