Extra trip key to well-bred Mollify

Well-related mare Mollify relished a step up in distance at Te Aroha to open her New Zealand account.

Our lightly tried four-year-old was a winner and a multiple placegetter when trained for us by Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman before she relocated to Lance Noble’s team.

Mollify had finished sixth in her first run over 1300 metres from her new quarters and appreciated more ground in the hands of Warren Kennedy to prove too good for her Rating 65 rivals.

“I thought she’d be an improver and first-up she looked a bit one-paced so getting up to a mile suited her,” Noble said.

She settled close to the pace and unwound powerfully in the run home.

Mollify is a daughter of the late So You Think and the winning Lawman mare Mitigate, who we purchased for 50,000gns at the 2018 Tattersalls December Mares’ Sale.

She is a half-sister to the multiple international stakes winners Kick On and Sabratah and they are out of the Marju mare Marika, also successful at black type level.

Mitigate’s first foal Hilary’s Boy won four times in England while her second is Group performer Investigate, and she has been served by Almanzor.

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