SECOND SUCCESSIVE GR.1 WIN FOR PROVISO

Article taken from the Racing Post Online.

Hours after Workforce won the Derby for Khalid Abdullah at Epsom, the famous Juddmonte silks were carried to another top-level victory by the former Andre Fabre-trained Proviso (DANSILI).

Always handy in the Just A Game Stakes, the five-year-old daughter of DANSILI was kicked on after entering the straight and had just enough in reserve to hold off Phola in this $400,000 contest.

Proviso, sent off 11-10 favourite, was recording her second straight Grade 1 win on American grass after taking the Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita in March.

"I'm just getting more and more impressed with her the more I get to ride her,"said jockey Mike Smith, speaking to the Daily Racing Form.
"She went from being a pretty nervous filly to a mare that's really come into herself right now; relaxing. It's added a few more lengths to her. That's a really nice mare she held off. She had to do a lot of the dirty work and still held them off."

Date: 05 June 2010