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young gun Rubick added a fourth metropolitan winner to his tally when promising
filly Belitsa produced a tenacious effort to win at Canterbury on Friday night.
Second on debut at Gosford last month, the Peter and Paul Snowden trained filly
led throughout and was courageous in the run to the line holding off all
challengers to win the 1200 metre maiden by a half neck.
A $100,0000 Inglis Classic Book 2 purchase for Triple Crown Syndications from
the Ascot Park draft, Belitsa is the first winner from Beaver Rocks, a Fastnet
Rock half-sister to stakes-winner Care to Think from the family of Group I
winner Hard to Get.
Belitsa is the fourth winner, all of them metropolitan winners, for Rubick, who
also has three stakes horses in Alburq, Biscara and Krameric.
A brilliantly fast son of Encosta de Lago from the family of Redoute's Choice,
Rubick was super popular with breeders last spring covering 262 mares at a fee
of $17,600.