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"I’ve just got an absolute champion of a horse here.”

“It’s good to get a winner for Mike. He was watching and I spoke to him after the race, and that will give him a good uplift today.”

A week after his remarkable front-running heroics in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes, in-form jockey Declan Bates pulled off another wire-to-wire performance with New Zealand-bred mare Disturbia in Saturday’s Evergreen Turf Handicap at Mornington.

"She is quite special because you don't get horses that can do that."

A week after a stunning all-the-way performance to win the Gr.1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) at Flemington, Pride Of Jenni returned to the course and distance to repeat the dose.

The front-running Kiwi-bred mare broke the hearts of her rivals under a daring Declan Bates ride to claim the Gr.1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) on Derby Day at Flemington, ahead of fellow Kiwi mares Atishu and Life Lessons.