With A Promise scores boilover in Stocking

Trainer Ben Currie is glad he bowed to the wishes of owner Mike Crooks when outsider With A Promise scored a boilover win in the Silk Stocking on the Gold Coast.

Currie was scanning race programs to find a suitable restriced class race for With A Promise when Crooks requested the filly take on black type company on Saturday.

“I thought if she got beaten here I was going to run her in a Class Five at Toowoomba next weekend but now she’s a stakes winner,” Currie said.

Beaten in a Class 6 event at Doomben at her previous start, With A Promise ($81) led throughout to hold off the fast-finishing Nancy ($6.50) to win by a short half-head, narrowly denying champion jockey Hugh Bowman a quartet of winners.

“She’s been flying on the track and is so tough and genuine as she just showed,” Currie said.

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“They got to her two or three times in the straight but she just tries her guts out.”

Currie and apprentice Josh Oliver have forged a formidable combination in recent months.

They joined forces with Col ‘n’ Lil, which dead-heated with Jumbo Prince to win Toowoomba’s feature sprint, the Weetwood Handicap at Clifford Park on April 8.

Bowman was full of praise for Nancy, which conceded With A Promise 5kg in weight and stormed home to narrowly miss after being held up for a run on straightening.

“It was a terrific effort for her to get so close to the winner carrying such a big weight,” Bowman said.

Larry Cassidy said Elegant Composure had her chance to win but was pleased nonetheless with her effort to finish third.