A stunned Linda Meech couldn't believe her mount Mid Summer Music was able to get up and win from a seemingly impossible position at Moonee Valley on Saturday.Meech said she thought the Peter Moody-trained mare was going to finish fourth and she was set to to protest against the eventual runner-up Venus World after suffering interference on the turn.However Mid Summer Music ($3 fav) rocketed home to score by a half-neck from Venus World ($7) with Rue Maple ($5) a short head away third in the LF
A stunned Linda Meech couldn't believe her mount Mid Summer Music was able to get up and win from a seemingly impossible position at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Meech said she thought the Peter Moody-trained mare was going to finish fourth and she was set to to protest against the eventual runner-up Venus World after suffering interference on the turn.
However Mid Summer Music ($3 fav) rocketed home to score by a half-neck from Venus World ($7) with Rue Maple ($5) a short head away third in the LF Sign Group Hcp (1200m).
"I don't know how she won," Meech said of the Oamaru Force five-year-old.
"When they are winners, they just know how to do it. It was a freakish effort."
Moody and the connections of Mid Summer Music can thank Meech the mare wasn't sacked from the stable early in her career.
"She wasn't a very good eater and Pete was going to sack her but we had a chat and I convinced him to keep her," Meech said.
Moody's foreman Tom Brideoake said Mid Summer Music, who has won seven of her 11 starts and more than $200,000, would be aimed at the $150,000 All Victoria Sprint Series Final (1200m) at Flemington on July 9.
The Moody stable completed a double with Mid Summer Music having won the Gillies Famous Pies Hcp (1500m) with Volando ($4.80), giving stable apprentice Daniel Stackhouse a winner at each of the past eight metropolitan meetings in Melbourne.
Earlier the Richard Jolly-trained filly Golden Penny showed plenty of grit to get up for a comfortable win in the Programmed Property Services Hcp (1200m).
The Blevic filly was backed from as much as $6.50 with TAB Sportsbet but opened at $2.70 on course and drifted slightly to $2.80 before starting $2.60 favourite.
After settling fourth Golden Penny, ridden by Damien Oliver, wore down the leaders and went on to score by three-quarters of a length from Royal Bender ($5) with Procida ($13) a half-head away third.
"They quickened up noticeably coming to the turn and she got off the bit momentarily and I was a bit concerned when you have got a pretty good filly like Royal Bender in front of you," Oliver said.
"But she's racing like a filly who wants 1400 metres to a mile (1600m) and she finished it off well.
"She's genuine and responded well under pressure and that's what you want."
The three-year-old has won two of her seven starts, her previous win being a Strathalbyn 1100m maiden last October, with three seconds and two fourths at Morphettville.