Glint Of Silver made the most of a fitness edge he had on most his rivals to pick up a Group 2 win in the $300,000 Autumn Stakes at Sandown on Saturday.
Trainer David Pfeiffer said he deliberately headed to the 1400-metre event with the son of Rubick, who was having his fourth start for the preparation, after he noted so many runners were first-up and cashed in with a bold on-pace plan.
“We had him entered in quite a few places and saw that these noms were going to be a bit light on,” the Warwick Farm trainer said.
“We got to acceptance time and there was quite a few there first-up so we were deep into our preparation and we had good fitness first-up and it was pretty much how the instructions followed through.”
Glint Of Silver ($11) at betr.com.au, who registered the second win of his 12-start career, defeated Amenable ($9) by a long neck with The Fortune Teller ($5.50) a neck back third. Pericles, the $3.70 favourite, was close up in fourth position.
Further merit was added to Glint Of Silver’s win after the event when vets noted that the grey gelding was displaying lameness in the off foreleg.