So You Think mare Alors Tu Crois posted back-to-back wins on the weekend, progressing from benchmark-58 grade at Tatura to a metropolitan winner on Saturday. Dwyer’s five-year-old galloper looked right at home around the tight Moonee Valley circuit, where she was given a lovely ride by claiming apprentice Will Price from the mile start. The young hoop found a plum spot in the run, stalking the frontrunners throughout, before easing three-wide at the 600-metre mark to challenge market-leaders Lady Court and Lievore. The latter dropped off quickly before Dwyer’s mare claimed the lead from Lady Court at the furlong mark, running through the line strongly to score by three-quarters-of-a-length. Price heaped praise on the mare post-race. “She was fantastic today. She feels like she’s really come on in her strength of gallop since I last rode her”, he said. “On the corner I didn’t think there was anything that was going to beat her. She was super”.
Trainer Dwyer was equally pleased. “Terrific win from her today.
“She’s now starting to show on raceday what we’ve always seen at home”.
There was a small query how she would perform after a six-week let-up and dropping back in distance, but the stable got it spot on, finding the right race and right conditions to see their galloper succeed. “Obviously it agrees with her being kept on the fresher side”, Dwyer said. “It’s just a really good result. She’s a Saturday metro winner now”.
Dwyer indicated his mare may return to The Valley in four weeks for a 2040-metre race, but didn’t rule out finding something suitable before then.
Alors Tu Crois is a mare in form. She now has four wins from fourteen starts, three of those victories coming in her past five appearances at the races.