Winless
since taking out a Listed race at Flemington during the 2017 Melbourne Cup
Carnival, talented sprinting mare Our Crown Mistress was back to her best at
Doomben on Saturday when scoring an all the way win in the Listed BRC Just Now
Quality.
Prepared by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, the dashing grey daughter of Star Witness was
fit and ready to fire, leading throughout for Brett Preblle to win the 1350
metre contest by a long neck.
A $200,000 Magic Millions purchase for McKeever Bloodstock from the Kitchwin
Hills draft, Our Crown Mistress has five wins and two placigns from 10 starts with
prizemoney just in excess of $280,000.
She is the second winner from Barangaroo, a metro winning Fastnet Rock mare
from the family of Champion Miler Racing to Win.
An eye-catching grey like Racing to Win, Our Crown Mistress owes her grey
colouring to third dam Sunset Beach, a daughter of influential grey shuttler
Kenmare (Fr).
Barangaroo produced a full brother to Our Crown Mistress this spring.
Our Crown Mistress is one of 14 stakes-winners for Star Witness, who has 26
entries for Magic Millions, 41 for Inglis Classic and nine for Inglis Premier.