Bookies result in Ramornie Handicap

For Valour finished like a shot out of a gun down the outside to give bookies a winning result in yesterday's $125,000 Ramornie Handicap at Grafton.

Punters took another heavy hit with the heavily backed Starlactic finishing unplaced after ebing pressured from start to finish from his gate 1 draw.

The Coffs Harbour trained Words Of Magic looked to be holding his rivals before the Mitchell Hudson trained For Valour with Lacey Morrison aboard, rattled down the outside to grab victory in the last stride by a long head with Dance City a long neck away in third place.

The battle with the bookies continues today with the running of the Grafton Cup where the Jack Denham trained Verb has been installed the early favourite ahead of Le Bron and the New Zealand three year old Sculptor.

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