KEY POINTS:
Jazzella is so talented she scares her connections.
The remarkable filly's gutsy win in Saturday's $100,000 Darley Plate is just the springboard to greatness.
She should have been second to a yet-again luckless Gee I Jane, but running second to such a high-class group-one older mare in a
group race would have been outstanding in itself for a 3-year-old filly of such limited experience.
"We knew we were stepping her way up for this race," said co-trainer and part-owner Donna Logan.
"She's scary."
Jazzella will have one more run in New Zealand in the $80,000 Windsor Park Breeders Stakes at Te Rapa on April 28 then head to the Brisbane winter carnival.
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Mark Du Plessis begged trainer Neville Couchman for a second ride on Gee I Jane after his first on Saturday turned to disaster.
Michael Walker copped a five-raceday suspension for crossing Tatlock too quickly after the start of the big sprint, Tatlock in turn moving across and badly checking Gee I Jane.
"It put me one place further back than I wanted to be and we were in trouble after that," said Du Plessis.
"I wanted to be where Tatlock was and I was entitled to be there."
Gee I Jane was buffeted as she tried for clear air at the 400m and rattled home into a close third.
Couchman put his hands in the air when Du Plessis asked for another ride.
"Where?" he said. "There are no races here for her."
Couchman wants to take Gee I Jane back to the Brisbane carnival where she starred at group one level last year.
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Trainer Paul Duncan is not sure what to do after promising stayer Sunrize finished just out of a place as favourite at Ellerslie on Saturday.
"There is a Sydney Cup payment due on Tuesday," Duncan said.
Sunrize races very dour and unquestionably was unsuited by the extremely slow tempo for the first half of the race and the only slightly quicker second half.
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So much for Australians claiming our sprinters are not up to theirs.
Speedy filly Solvini has been bought by Lee Freedman's Melbourne stable.
Solvini was scratched from Saturday's $100,000 Darley Plate after a purchase deal was finalised late Friday night.
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Trainer Richard Otto deserves every win he gets out of Narredson.
Temperament wise, Otto says the 3-year-old is one of the worst he's dealt with.
"He's aged me 10 years," said Otto after Narredson overcame difficulties early in the run home to power to the finish and win nicely in the opening race at Ellerslie.
"He's probably the worst I've seen at bucking and, unfortunately, I've had to ride him."
Otto said Narredson has had him on the ground a couple of times, something he's tried desperately to avoid.
"He's the sort of horse that would go for you on the ground. Fortunately he's now a bit better than he was."
Before his temperament got in the way Narredson was set a fairly ambitious plan and Otto hasn't ruled out the possibility that another might be set if the attitude holds together.
"We'll race him as if each race could be his last for this campaign and see where we end up."