Class Prevails with Pearl Of Alsace (NZ)
02 Oct 2023
Despite looking far from comfortable in the Heavy9 track conditions, Pencarrow’s rising star mare Pearl Of Alsace (NZ) (Tavistock) dug deep to collect the sixth win of her eight-start career in Friday’s $50,000 Fluid Power Distributors Mile (1600m) at Te Rapa.
At this time last year, Pearl Of Alsace was unraced. She made her debut in November and proceeded to win all of her first five races in a row, including the Group Three Cuddle Stakes (1600m) at Trentham. Her breakthrough season came to a close with an unlucky fourth in the Group One New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m).