Time Is Money: Hovercraft flies in great first-up run

05 May 2021
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It’s always hard to know how a horse will come back from a spell, but Darraweit Guim trainer-driver Lisa Miles could hardly have asked for much more from her talented mare Shes A Hovercraft at the weekend.

The daughter of Night Of The Stars, who hadn’t been seen since her down-the-track finish in the Group 1 Vicbred Super Series 3YO Fillies Final on December 31, signalled that she is in for a good preparation with an eye-catching second in Saturday night’s Nevele R Stud Pace (1720m) at Tabcorp Park Melton.

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