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GR1 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DERBY

LEICESTER (AUS) 2014

3 G (Wanted - Defy the Odds by Galileo)

Run over 2500m on May 12, 2018 at Morphetteville

Prizemoney: $602,020

Trainer: D K Weir

Jockey: Damian Lane

Time: 02:39.0

Track Conditions: Good(4)

Race Club: SAJC

Winners Details

Sale: N/A

Then came: Rezealient, Runaway, Tropical Lightning, Won Won Too, High 'n' Dry, Money Maher, Into Rio, Main Stage, Sherrif, Nothin' Leica High, Savaheat, Box on Collins, Tangled, Civil Disobedience, Silent Command

At Morphettville in Adelaide, Clear Mountain Fairview's Gr1-winning stallion Wanted (Fastnet Rock-Fragmentation, by Snippets) celebrated a Gr1 triumph when favoured 3YO Australian-bred gelding Leicester (Wanted-Defy The Odds, by Galileo) scored by 1.5-lengths for trainer Darren Weir in the $600,000 Gr1 South Australian Derby (2500m) for 3YOs, defeating fellow geldings Rezealient & Runaway. A $10,000 bargain purchase by Paul Willetts Bloodstock Consultancy at the 2015 Inglis Australian Weanling Sale, the well-bred Leicester's second stakes-win in two weeks improved his record to 4 wins (including the Gr3 Chairman's Stakes) & 2 placings from 9 starts for $535,730 earnings. Closing the race out over the last 200m, Leicester provided Darren Weir with his third consecutive SA Derby trophy following Howard Be Thy Name and Volatile Mix, a feat last achieved by Bart Cummings in 1975, 1976 and 1977.