Ponder four-year-old Ricimer is North America-bound at the end of August completed five Gloucester Park victories in a month when he won the Colin Hammersley Memorial Chandon Final (2130m).
The gelding, trained by Gary Hall Senior, started his winning spree on July 1 and has recorded wins on each of the following four Fridays.
Driven by Kim Prentice who had to takeRicimer from the track twice for shoe adjustments and the start was delayed for 10 minutes.
But once the race finally got under way,Ricimerfound the front and scored from stablemate American Boy ($7.20). Ima Connoisseur ($8.80) ran third.
Ponder by The Panderosa stood at Alabar for four season, but has not returned since 2011, has left 94 individual winners 5 of which have won over $100k.
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