Lord Claims A First Ladies Bracelet Win

THE champion kennel of Andy and Jodie Lord have claimed their first win in the Group 3 Ladies Bracelet at Wentworth Park on Saturday night.

The time-honoured female-only feature worth $25,000-to-the-winner was taken out by the Gunning =-based kennel's dynamic chaser Midnight Spritz.

The daughter of Fernando Bale's son Tommy Shelby made it 11 wins from 22 starts and took her earnings to just shy of $100,000 when stopping the clock at 29.59 seconds over the 520m journey.

Midnight Spritz ($3.70) fired out of box five to settle being the leader My Hepburn at the first turn, taking over turning off the back straight before drawing clear to win by 2-3/4 lengths from the $3.40 favourite Camilla Keeping which blew her chances when missing the start.

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"Either in front or behind the leader she'd always run the leader down," kennel representative Hayley Moffitt told thedogs.com.au.

"She's definitely finding her feet and growing up and learning what to do.

"Good time. She's gone better but wet track, bad conditions. Happy."

Camilla Keeping finished half-a-length in advance of the early leader My Hepburn ($9.50) which rounded out the placings.

Last year the Lords former champion She's A Pearl won the Ladies Bracelet Appreciation, an event which was ‘downsized' after the Ladies Bracelet meeting was abandoned.

They robbed us of a bracelet last year!” Andy Lord told the Greyhound Recorder earlier this week.

Lord described Midnight Spritz as “a lot stronger and I'm hoping 600 or 700 metres might be her go” in the future.