Wallis and MWD Partnership's night of Destiny starts at Oxford
NEW DESTINY kickstarted an unprecedented and truly remarkable 50-minute Category One treble for trainer Mark Wallis and the MWD Partnership with victory in £10,000 bet365 Challenge Cup final over 650m at Oxford.
The first battle between market principals New Destiny and Queen Georgia was for favouritism with the Wallis bitch supported from 11/8 into evens to claim that honour but the crucial tussle was who would get first run.
After outsider Swift Giddy broke marginally in front, it was the black jacket of New Destiny which quickly asserted, stealing a vital half length over Queen Georgia who then went to the bend marginally quicker but had nowhere to go at that point.
Chopped for racing room, Queen Georgia was always playing catch up but New Destiny was relentless in front and kept on powerfully to claim her own third Category One title by just under two lengths after previous Romford successes in the Coronation Cup and Champion Stakes.
The winning time was 38.93sec (normal), well inside Queen Georgia's first round track record of 39.17sec but the fact that it was hand-clocked meant the runner-up did have the small consolation of keeping the official mark.
Just 16 minutes later, Wallis sent out Garfiney Blaze to land the George Curtis & Ballyregan Bob Memorial at Hove and it was then only another 34 minutes before his Proper Heiress claimed the Olympic title at the Sussex track.