Jockey Ashlee Mundy died doing what she loved best, says her father.

There was nowhere else Cambridge trainer Lee Somervell would rather have been than at Ellerslie racecourse yesterday, to lead grossly under-rated mare Fleur De Lune in after winning the $200,000 Sistema Railway.

Top jockey Jason Waddell was thinking four weeks ahead after winning yesterday's $70,000 Barneswood Farm Eclipse Stakes at Ellerslie. He showed up his own class as well as Gobi Ranger's in a dominant win that gave no other runner any chance.

South Australian trainer Sam Kavanagh is planning a move to Sydney racing for the career opportunity of a lifetime.

For the second time in a row, Greytfilly was slow to leave the barriers before finishing strongly to deadheat for second to Magic Millions aspirant Global Dream in the Hot Tomato Ladies Day Handicap (1200m).

Jockey Ashlee Mundy was laughing and joking with a friend and fellow rider moments before suffering fatal head injuries after a fall from her horse mid-race.