KELVIN 'N'

The Shaf­fique Khan trained, five-year-old geld­ing, Hes­un­touch­able made every pole a win­ning one, yes­ter­day at san­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma when he won the fea­ture Starter Al­lowance event, over 1,750 me­tres on the main track at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma. Sent straight to the front by Shel­don Ro­dri­go, Hes­un­touch­ab­ull was close­ly at­tend­ed by Sonata's Melody with favourite, Donut Prince track­ing in third and As­cot War­rior bring­ing up the rear in the four horse field. Go­ing to the far turn, Hes­ubtouch­bull was pressed by Sonata's Melody with Donut Prince con­tent­ed to track the pace as As­cot War­rior trailed the field.

The or­der was main­tained as the hors­es swung in­to the straight with Hes­un­touchan­ull still hold­ing sway but the Glenn Mendez trained Sonata's Melody would go away and kept bat­tling. How­ev­er, in­side the fi­nal 200 me­tres, the Dr David Free­man owned horse as­sert­ed and pulled out a bit more to run out win­ner by 3/4 length. Sonata's Melody ran an im­proved race to be sec­ond with Donut prince a dis­ap­point­ing third. Hes­un­touch­ab­ull reg­is­tered the time of 1.52.87 for the trip. The days lead­ing rid­er was Shel­don Ro­dri­go who land­ed two win­ners, Sea Rock­ette and Hes­un­touch­ab­ull. Train­ing hop­nours for the day were shared be­tween train­er John O'brien and Shaf­fique Khan, who each sad­dled two win­ners. Rac­ing takes a break next Sat­ur­day but will re­sume at the cen­tralised fa­cil­i­ty on Jan­u­ary 24th.