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Generalife enjoyed a good run before taking out the Winter Stakes.
The favourite Generalife settled in an ideal position, one out and one back, following a steady early pace (first 800m 49.28).
He moved up nicely (three deep) rounding the home turn, showed a good turn of foot to dash to the lead at the 200m and was untroubled from that point to win comfortably by a length and a quarter.
The three-year-old filly Romantic Moon raced in fifth place on the rails, to the home turn.
She got a split between runners at the 300m and then finished on in good fashion for a most creditable second.
She should prove hard to beat when returned to racing against her own sex.
Second favourite Scream Machine went back at the start as usual and was second last in the nine-horse field to the turn.
He looked for a run between runners at the 300m, got clear at the 150m and battled on nicely for third.
The Peak was sixth, one off the rails to the 600m, went deep on turning for home and then kept battling on fairly well for (2.1 lengths) fourth while Coup Ay Tee was fifth (2.2 lengths) and Wouldn’t It Be Nice (2.7 lengths) sixth, both making ground from the tail of the field, in the sprint home, putting up quite good efforts.
