Turn Me Loose mare Above The Clouds did it tough from her wide barrier, sitting three-wide for much of the journey, but showed her class when distancing her rivals in the straight to score by 3-3/4 lengths over race favourite Spanish Lad. Recording her 8th career win she took her earnings close to $170,000 with the impressive performance. 

“She drew the outside barrier and I was going to need a little bit of luck,” Jockey Kelly Myers said. “I thought I could have got into the one-one, but Craig (Grylls, jockey aboard Spanish Lad) obviously didn’t want to go to the fence, so we had to sit three-wide.

“She was handy and in a nice rhythm. When Sam Collett (jockey aboard Heart Of Gold) came around us I was able to sit in behind her and get a bit of a drag into the race.

“I don’t think it would have mattered how I rode her, she won pretty easily.”

Turn Me Loose was had the best strike rate of winners to runners last year in the top 25 sires in the country highlighted by his top class filly Loose Sally.  

Turn Me Loose stands 2025 for a fee of $7,500 + GST