Melody Belle
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Group One winner Melody Belle will be kept to a shorter trip in the immediate future.
“We’ve changed tack with her and she’ll go to the Mongolian Khan Trophy on Karaka Million night rather than the mile,” said Jamie Richards, who trains the filly with Stephen Autridge.
Melody Belle, who won last season’s Gr.1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) and the Karaka Million (1200m), was third when resuming last month.
Last time out she finished sixth, after a check in the straight, in the Gr.1 Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day.
Her yearling half-sister (Lot 371) by Not A Single Doubt will feature in Haunui Farm’s Book 1 Sale draft at Karaka later this month.