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IT may have taken 12 months but the Ledger stable had its revenge.
A year since Secret Toy Bizness finished fourth in the “greys” race on Oaks Day, the five-year-old mare produced a withering finish to beat Queensland visitor Time To Plunder ($8.50) by three-quarters of a length.
Trained by John Ledger and his son Chris at Wangaratta for a group of patient and enthusiastic owners, Secret Toy Bizness ($12) took the rails path home under Damian Lane.
“I think everybody who owns a grey horse targets this race on Oaks Day,” Chris Ledger said.
“She ran fourth in it last year and has had a few problems off and on since, so we have had to work hard to get her here.
“We had a plan today and the instructions were to come wide, but it didn’t work out that way.
“He had to go back in and it was a great ride.”
Lane said he had tried to move out to make his run around the field from second last on the
turn, but the gaps kept closing.
“I was working to the outside because there seems to be a thought the inside isn’t as good,” Lane said.
“Then the openings came on the inside and kept coming and she took them.
“It was a good to get the win after a couple of frustrating seconds.”
Lane had ridden Miss Maggiebeel and Eloping to second place in two earlier races.
